Oil spills represent a major environmental threat to coastal wetlands, which provide a variety of critical ecosystem services to humanity. The U.S. Gulf of Mexico is a hub of oil and gas exploration activities that historically have impacted intertidal habitats such as salt marsh. Following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we sampled the terrestrial arthropod community and marine invertebrat...

This thesis describes an implementation of the discontinuous Galerkin finite element time domain (DGTD) method on unstructured meshes to solve acoustic wave equations in discontinuous media. In oil industry people use finite difference time domain (FDTD) methods to compute solutions of time domain wave equations and simulate seismic surveys, the first step to explore oil and gas in the earth’s ...

This study examines the pre-announcement performance of Canadian takeover targets and measures the relation between performance and the turnover rate of target firm top managers (Chief Executive Officers or Presidents) following the announcements. We find negative correlation between pre-announcement performance and the turnover rate. We find that the pre-announcement performance of targets tha...

The recent development in oil and gas industry increases the production and consumption of oil. The enormous amount of oily wastewater produced is urged to be treated to prevent humanity and environment from being threatened. Membrane technology is an appealing alternative for oily wastewater treatment due to its design simplicity, energy efficiency and environmentally benign approach. In this ...

Weiyuan gas field, located in the Sichuan basin of south China, is a large marine gas field with the oldest reservoir (the Sinian sequences) in south China. The hydrocarbon origin of the gas field has long been debated by petroleum geologists. Recently, it was recognized that a paleo-oil pool maybe the significant contributor to the gas field. Consequently, when the paleo-oil pool had been crac...

Oil and gas field wastewater or produced water is a significant waste stream in the oil and gas industries. In this study, the performance of a membrane sequencing batch reactor (MSBR) and membrane sequencing batch reactor/reverse osmosis (MSBR/RO) process treating produced wastewater were investigated and compared. The MSBR was operated in different hydraulic residence time (HRT) of 8, 20 and ...

In this paper we define the theory and basic principles to move (redatum) the surface shots from a walk away VSP to be as if they had been located in the borehole. We will refer to this theory using several of the terms used in the literature including Time Reverse Acoustics (TRA), Seismic Interferometry (SI) and Virtual Source (VS) technology. Regardless of the name, the theory is built upon r...

Thermal anomalies indicating elevated temperatures often are present in producing hydrocarbon fields. Thermal anomalies delineated by bottom hole temperatures (BHTs) are readily identified in such settings, but are difficult to interpret because the data are not equilibriumtemperature measurements, nor do they provide depth constraints on thermal anomalies (i.e., change in heat flow with depth,...