Experimental Investigation of Interfacial Tension Measurement and Oil Recovery by Carbonated Water Injection : A Case Study Using Core Samples from an Iranian Carbonate Oil Reservoir

The authors would like to gratefully acknowledge and appreciate the Department of Petroleum Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Marvdasht Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, 73711-13119, Iran, for the provision of the laboratory facilities necessary for completing this work.Peer reviewedPostprin

Effective Assessment Plan Leading to Strong Reform of Petroleum Engineering Graduate Program

The Bob L. Herd Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University has made a lot of significant actions of improvement to its graduate program that was motivated by a systematic SACSCOC assessment plan. This paper shows how the SACSCOC assessment plan aided in making continuous actions of improvement and as a conclusion of these actions, how the current graduate curriculum plan was improved. This paper highlights the details of the graduate department assessment plan, such as how graduate program objectives are assessed, what assessment tools are used, when data are gathered and evaluated, and when actions of improvement are made. This paper will also detail how the analysis of data was utilized in making actions of continuous improvement. At the end of the paper examples of the significant actions of improvement made based on the department assessment and evaluation plan are presented.Cockrell School of Engineerin

User Guided Design: Building Confidence in Engineering Data Publication

Advances in imaging technology have generated large volumetric datasets in the field of petroleum engineering. To address the need to share this data, a multidisciplinary team developed the Digital Rocks Portal. This paper describes the protocol for conducting the user experience study, analyzing the results, and the methods to improve the researcher’s experience and enhance the quality of the data publications.Paper was presented at SciDataCon 2016 in Denver, ColoradoTexas Advanced Computing Center (TACC

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Academia Meeting The Needs Of Industry: A Case Study Of Developing A New Degree Program For Petroleum Engineering

The recent oil boom in western North Dakota’s Bakken formation in the Williston Basin resulted in numerous opportunities for skilled professionals (for which an academic credential is required) in petroleum engineering. Oil and gas industries operating in the state approached leaders at the University of North Dakota (UND) with the request to develop a petroleum engineering program for the purpose of contributing to the need for a skilled workforce in the state. In 2012, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education approved a new Department of Petroleum Engineering at the University of North Dakota. What is unknown or understood to a lesser degree is how the development of the Petroleum Engineering program progressed: the relationship between drivers of the program development, the interaction between various stakeholders, and the process of developing a new degree program. It is important to know how universities develop new degree programs to meet the needs of industry, as it is plausible that in the future more university degree programs will be created to better prepare students for future employment. This qualitative case study documents the perceptions of selected key participants associated with the development of the Petroleum Engineering program at UND. Twenty-one individuals participated in this study including administrators, current and former faculty, students and industry executives. Open-ended questions linked to the literature and the Innovation System Framework prompted participants to reflect on their experiences. The study validates the importance of higher education sensitivity to regional needs and the significance of successful collaboration between stakeholders. The study also examines innovation alignment with innovation driver, the innovative behavior and the end result of innovative behavior

Polyacrylamide polymer flow through carbonate rocks for enhanced oil recovery: An experimental study of polymer-brine stability, resistance factor, and related geologic characteristics

Thesis (M.E.)--University of Kansas, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 1981

Study of the clay effect on crude oil combustion using thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) and differential scanning calorimeter (DSC)

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kansas, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, 1982

On the upstream mobility scheme for two-phase flow in porous media

When neglecting capillarity, two-phase incompressible flow in porous media is modelled as a scalar nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law. A change in the rock type results in a change of the flux function. Discretizing in one-dimensional with a finite volume method, we investigate two numerical fluxes, an extension of the Godunov flux and the upstream mobility flux, the latter being widely used in hydrogeology and petroleum engineering. Then, in the case of a changing rock type, one can give examples when the upstream mobility flux does not give the right answer.Comment: A preprint to be published in Computational Geoscience