Browsing Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences by Author "Hu, Qinhong"
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Biomarkers: Review And Application To The Eagle Ford Shale Formation
Ononogbu, Ugochukwu (Geology, 2013-03-20)Biomarkers have become an integral part of oil exploration. Gas Chromatography (-Mass Spectrometry) was performed to an oil sample to acquire biomarkers from the sample.The presence, lack of, or abundance of a given compound ... -
CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOPETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MANCOS “B”/ PRAIRIE CANYON MEMBER OF THE MANCOS SHALE, RIO BLANCO, COLORADO
Leaseburge, Scott Brian; 0000-0001-8888-2877 (2017-12-04)Over the past decade hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs has grown to become a significant source of North American domestic energy and will likely continue so for decades to come. However, production ... -
Coupled Geochemical and Nano-Petrophysical Study of the Spraberry-Wolfcamp Trend; West Texas, U.S.A.
Quintero, Ryan P. (2016-12-16)With the rise in interest of unconventional plays, efforts have moved to understand these formations across 12 orders of magnitude through nm-km scale. Recent work by others has shown the importance of the nanometer range ... -
Experimental and theoretical studies of fluid-solid coupling processes of tight rock media
Zhang, Tao; 0000-0002-8750-1435 (2023-08-24)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: This study covers the application of continuum mechanics in the realm of rock work in geological studies. Continuum mechanics encompasses two major ... -
EXPERIMENTAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE MICROMECHANICS OF BRITTLE FRAGMENTATION DURING EARTHQUAKE RUPTURE
Barber, Troy J; 0000-0001-7210-9038 (2016-12-09)Various fault damage fabrics, from gouge in the principal slip zone, to fragmented and pulverized rocks in the fault damage zone, have been attributed to brittle deformation at high strain rates during earthquake rupture. ... -
FLUID UPTAKE OF THE GODDARD SHALE IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA, USA
Huggins, Paul (2015-12-07)The South Central Oklahoma Oil Province is the current play for the Goddard shale and is also the main field for the underlying Woodford Formation. As of September 2015, an estimated 40 wells have been drilled to evaluate ... -
GEOCHEMICAL AND PETROPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HORN RIVER FORMATION: BRITISH COLUMBIA, CA
Sortore, Joseph Anthony; 0000-0001-5014-6401 (2017-05-23)The Devonian Horn River basin of northeastern British Columbia is the largest producing shale gas field in Canada. It has an estimated 500-600 TCF of light hydrocarbons in place stacked in multiple formations in an ... -
History-matching and Forecasting of Three Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs Using Decline Analyses and Type Curves
Ahmed, Hammad (2019-05-10)Reservoir modeling of shale gas and tight oil presents numerous challenges due to complicated transport mechanisms and the existence of fracture networks. Even then, oil and gas companies have not slowed down on shale ... -
Identifying Possible Hydrologic Recharge Zones In The Sangre de Cristo Aquifer on The Milliken Ranch in Las Vegas, NM
Hamilton, Ian (Geology, 2012-04-11)Groundwater at the periphery of mountain ranges in the desert southwest has its provenance in two possible sources: local or regional flow. This study sought to identify the source of deep groundwater from wells on ranches ... -
The Impact Of Impoundment And Urbanization On Shallow Groundwater Conditions In The Joe Pool Lake Catchment, Texas
Ghimire, Manoj K. (Environmental & Earth Science, 2014-12)This dissertation is an assessment of the shallow groundwater (SGW) regime within the drainage area of Joe Pool Lake (JPL), an impoundment on Mountain Creek (MC) located in Grand Prairie, Texas. A thin zone of highly-weathered ... -
Investigating the frictional properties of organic matter and pore structure of organic-rich shales with atomic force microscopy and scanning electron microscopy
Sobhbidari, Farnood; 0000-0001-8072-7098 (2022-12-19)Understanding geomechanical properties of shales, such as stiffness properties and fracture toughness, is important in different areas of petroleum industry-related activities including fracturing efficiency, petroleum ... -
Investigation of petrophysical properties and fluid migration in unconventional oil/gas reservoirs
Zhang, Yuxiang; 0000-0003-3367-5293 (2019-05-07)Petrophysics deals with the physical and chemical properties of petroleum-bearing rocks and their interactions with associated fluids. The investigation of petrophysical properties of interest, such as porosity, specific ... -
Laboratory-Scale Petrophysical Evaluation of Lithofacies Effect on Reservoir & Source Quality and Core-Calibrated Well Log Analysis in Pennsylvanian-Permian Wolfcamp-Spraberry Intervals, Midland Basin, Texas, USA
Becker, Samuel John; 0000-0001-7358-7226 (2019-12-05)The “Wolfberry” play, which is made up of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations, is an important resource for the exploitation of hydrocarbons with a need for additional petrophysical understanding. Although the Wolfcamp ... -
Liquid Flow and Gas Diffusion in Natural Rocks: Experimental and Simulation Studies
Ning, Xuewei; 0000-0003-2183-0073 (2023-08-24)Natural rocks, as key components in energy and environmental geosciences, play crucial roles in groundwater extraction, geological storage of high-level nuclear waste, geothermal energy mining, and petroleum exploration ... -
Machine Learning-based Methods for the Segmentation of Scanning Electron Microscopy Images of Fine-Grained Shale Samples
Yin, Binqian (2022-12-15)The segmentation of scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images is critical yet time-consuming for geological studies, as it will need to differentiate the boundaries for different mineral objects to facilitate subsequent ... -
MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-APPROCH INVESTIGATIONS OF PETROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND FLUID FLOW IN NATURAL ROCKS
Wang, Qiming (2022-05-09)Natural rock is one of the most important geological attributes on the Earth that have been widely related to human daily life in various aspects. Rocks are usually utilized with respect to their petrophysical properties ... -
Multiple Approaches To Characterizing Pore Structure For A Range Of Sandstones Samples
Arawole, Samson SundayUsing various approaches, this work examines pore structure (geometry and connectivity) of a range of sandstone samples with their permeability varying by five orders of magnitude. The following four experimental approaches ... -
NANO-PETROPHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF THE OIL WINDOW OF EAGLE FORD SHALE FROM SOUTHWESTERN TO CENTRAL TEXAS, U.S.A.
Larsen, Chad; 0000-0003-4915-4943 (2020-08-05)Eagle Ford Shale and the overlying Austin Chalk are the main producing plays throughout Central Texas. Due to the high clastic nature of Eagle Ford Shale and its ability to produce and maintain fractures from hydraulic ... -
Nano-Petrophysical Properties of the Bone Spring and the Wolfcamp Formation in the Delaware Basin, New Mexico, USA.
Chang, Ashley; 0000-0002-0300-5590 (2019-05-09)The Permian Basin is one of the largest oil producing basins in the United States. The Permian Basin is 260 miles by 300 miles in area and encompasses 52 counties in southeast New Mexico and West Texas. In the past decade, ... -
Nano-petrophysical study of the Dean, Wolfcamp, and Canyon formations of the Midland Basin, Texas, USA.
Mowrey, Benton M; 0000-0001-7979-8403 (2019-12-05)The prolific levels of oil and gas production from the shale revolution have been plagued by steep initial production decline and inefficiencies in recovering the total hydrocarbons in place. Even the widespread practice ...