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Modeling Unconventional Water Production In The Northeast Elm Coulee Field, Bakken Formation, Jan Branning
Modeling Unconventional Water Production In The Northeast Elm Coulee Field, Bakken Formation, Jan Branning
Graduate Theses & Non-Theses
Wells within the Northeast (NE) Elm Coulee produce significantly higher water cuts than wells within Elm Coulee Proper. The purpose of this work was to identify the source of produced water in the NE Elm Coulee. An area within the NE Elm Coulee was selected for a numerical flow simulation analysis, and a total of three models of the project area were constructed by isolating production mechanisms to determine the source of produced water in the NE Elm Coulee. A Separate Tank model was constructed to determine if the source of the produced water was matrix water saturation in the …
Numerical Study Of Downhole Heat Exchanger Concept In Geothermal Energy Extraction From Saturated And Fractured Reservoirs, Yin Feng
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Geothermal energy has gained a lot of attention recently due to several favorable aspects such as ubiquitously distributed, renewable, low emission resources while leveraging the advances in the associated technologies such as directional drilling and low enthalpy power generation plant. However, there are still many challenges such as the high initial capital cost of drilling and surface facilities, environmental risk of seismicity due to the induced disequilibrium in the formation, and sustainability of project over designed operational life. Traditional downhole heat exchangers (DHE) could potentially reduce the capital cost and the risk of seismicity, but they are unable to maintain …