Hydraulic fracturing is a technique that can provide space for oil and gas flow by pumping fluid into reservoir to fracture rock filling proppant create fractures or nets [...]

The performance of petroleum recovery methods is dependent on the characteristics of the reservoir rock, oil quality, and formation water. One fundamental feature for considering petroleum recovery methods is the wettability of the rock reservoir. Also, this feature impacts the displacement of fluids in the rock reservior. In the case of the limestone, which normally features oil wettability, e...

Sulfate-reducing bacteria (SRB) have been studied extensively in the petroleum industry due to their role in corrosion, but very little is known about sulfur-oxidizing bacteria (SOB), which drive the oxidization of sulfur-compounds produced by the activity of SRB in petroleum reservoirs. Here, we surveyed the community structure, diversity and abundance of SRB and SOB simultaneously based on 16...

Reservoir characterization and asset management require comprehensive information about formation fluids. In fact, it is not possible to find accurate solutions to many petroleum engineering problems without having accurate pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) data. Traditionally, fluid information has been obtained by capturing samples and then by measuring the PVT properties in a laboratory. In ...

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High performance computing technology offers the petroleum industry the ability to solve previously prohibitive large-scale reservoir problems. In July 1999, our group, in cooperation with the Petroleum Exploration and Development Institute of Daqing Oil Field, China, ran a million-gridblock-scale reservoir simulation on DAWN 2000, which is a home-made supercomputer, and a loosely coupled PC cl...

The purpose of this paper is to report the first preliminary study of the recently introduced Combinatorial Multilevel (CML) method for solver preconditioning in large-scale reservoir simulation with coupled geomechanics. The CML method is a variant of the popular Algebraic Multigrid (AMG) method yet with essential differences. The basic idea of this new approach is to construct a hierarchy of ...