Category: OIL AND GAS/PETROLEUM ENGINEERING PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS

IMPROVING LIFTING CAPACITY AND MODELLING HYDRAULICS OF LOCAL BASED MUDS FLOWING THROUGH VERTICAL PIPES Drilling mud plays an integral part in drilling operations to perform several functions some of …

OPTIMIZATION OF INFILL WELLS IN HETEROGENOUS RESERVOIRS USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM ABSTRACT Optimal positioning of wells has always been the priority of most reservoir engineers in the face of …

EFFECTS OF NON-DARCY FLOW ON THE IMPAIRMENT OF GAS CONDENSATE WELLS ABSTRACT Gas condensate reservoirs are initially discovered as single-phase gas reservoirs. As the reservoir is produced below the …

INVESTIGATING THE BEHAVIOUR OF TWO-PHASE VERTICAL UPWARD AND DOWNWARD FLOWS IN LARGE DIAMETER PIPE ABSTRACT The understanding of the behaviour of vertical upward and downward two-phase flow in large …

THE TUNING OF THE TODD AND LONGSTAFF MIXING PARAMETER IN LIMITED COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION TO OPTIMIZE RECOVERY FROM A GAS CONDENSATE RESERVOIR A gas condensate reservoir is a type of …

CASE STUDY OF ESTIMATING WAX APPEARANCE TEMPERATURE AND APPLICATION TO WAX DEPOSITION MODELLING The need for cheap energy to run the world economy has propelled a lot of petroleum …

EVALUATION OF MACHINE LEARNING TOOLS FOR PREDICTING SAND PRODUCTION ABSTRACT Data analytics has only recently picked the interest of the oil and gas industry as it has made data …

THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY BILL (PIB) 2020 AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY REFORM IN NIGERIA Abstract: The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 represents a significant milestone in the …

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF LIMITED AND FULLY COMPOSITIONAL SIMULATION OF A NIGER DELTA GAS-CONDENSATE RESERVOIR Numerical simulators estimate the recovery volumes and the volume of fluids in-place in the reservoir …

FRAMEWORK FOR OPTIMAL ECONOMIC EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES IN CAMEROON ABSTRACT Economic exploration and exploitation of petroleum resources is regarded as being optimal when the surrounding fiscal …

ANALYTICAL SOLUTION TO PRESSURE TRANSIENT ANALYSIS IN NON-NEWTONIAN/NEWTONIAN FLUIDS COMPOSITE RESERVOIRS During polymer flooding in the reservoir using shear-thinning non-Newtonian fluids, an interface exists between the in-situ Newtonian crude …

COMPUTER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DYKSTRA-PARSONS METHOD OF WATERFLOOD CALCULATIONS Abstract: The Dykstra-Parson technique is widely recognized as one of the most commonly used waterflood methods in the petroleum industry. …

INJECTIVITY AS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN THE PERFORMANCE OF WATER FLOODING OPERATION ABSTRACT Petroleum exploration, development and operation usually involves large capital investments that requires maximum reserves be recovered, …

COMMINGLED PRODUCTION FROM STACKED RESERVOIR In recent years, the optimization of hydrocarbon production has increasingly focused on the technique of commingling production from stacked reservoirs. Commingled production involves the …

EVALUATION OF OPTIMAL POSITION OF ESP FOR OPTIMUM RATE IN HORIZONTAL WELL Abstract: Horizontal wells have become increasingly popular in the oil and gas industry due to their ability …

PROBABILITY OF WELLBORE FAILURE AND ITS PREDICTION USING MACHINE LEARNING Abstract: Wellbore integrity is of paramount importance in the oil and gas industry as it directly affects the safety, …

MITIGATION MEASURES TO REDUCE CO2 EMISSIONS AS A GREENHOUSE GAS AND ENHANCE ITS UTILIZATION IN PETROLCHEMICAL INDUSTRIES. ABSTRACT The removal and use of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), …