Browsing by Subject "oil"
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(2013-09-29)Two methods of hydraulic fracturing most widely utilized on unconventional shale gas and oil reservoirs are “gelled fracturing” and “slick-water fracturing”. Both methods utilize up to several million gallons of water-based ...
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(2012-10-15)With the production from mature oil fields declining, the increasing demand of oil urges towards more effective recovery of the available resources. Currently, the CO2 Floods are the second most applied EOR processes in ...
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(2016-04-25)The fluorescence and absorbance optical properties of seawater samples from the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill were analyzed to examine the transport and fate of oil both during and after the spill, as well as the effect ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)The petroleum industry faces problems in transportation of crude petroleum be- cause of the deposition of paraffins, hydrates and asphaltenes on the insides of the pipeline. These are conventionally removed using either ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-06-22)Initial unemployment claims over the last 14 weeks topped 46 million nationally. The number of claims per week have declined since the week ending March 28. Over the same time period, 2.5 million workers in Texas filed ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-03-28)The Business-Cycle increased 0.8% from December 2021 to January 2022. The local unemployment rate decreased to 3.7% in January 2022 from 3.8% in December 2021. Local nonfarm employment was revised upwards with the March ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2020-05-21)Data on initial unemployment claims indicate almost 2 million workers in Texas have filed claims over the last 8 weeks. Nationally, 36.5 million new unemployment claims have been filed over the same time period. The price ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-09-21)The Business-Cycle Index increased from 228 in June 2023 to 229 in July. The local unemployment rate remained unchanged at 3.3% in July 2023 compared to June. Local nonfarm employment decreased by 0.2% from June to July. ...
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(2017-05-10)During the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill, profuse marine snow with associated oil, termed marine oil snow (MOS) was observed but quickly disappeared. This research tested the hypothesis that in water with nutrients and ...
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(2011-08-08)Increased environmental regulatory policy has been put in place by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in response to waterborne oil pollution events. We examine the IMO regulatory response to these incidences. ...
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-11)Not only should the US lift its ban on exporting oil and natural gas in light of today’s economic and political climate, but it was wrong to ever ban such exports in the first place. The US should cease to view its energy ...
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(2013-08-19)In order to understand the complex fracture network that controls water movement in Sherrod Area of Spraberry Field in West Texas and to better manage the on-going waterflood performance, a field scale inter-well tracer ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-30)In this issue of PERCspectives on Research, Steven Puller, PERC's Professor in Free Enterprise, discusses how experiences in his youth sparked his interest in studying energy and economics, as well as travels abroad.
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(2019-05-21)Reactive nature of steam and clay minerals may lead to formation damage and flow assurance issues. This dissertation presents experimental investigation of oil recovery and changes in petrophysical properties as a function ...
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(2018-05-01)Due to their ultra-low permeability and extremely heterogeneous formations, unconventional liquids-rich reservoirs (ULR) need a support of an effective hydraulic fracturing for economic and commercial oil production. In ...
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(2020-04-20)The primary objective of this work is to provide the validation and ranking of numerous decline curve analysis models. From the validation cases analyzed in this research best practice guidelines for each of the decline ...
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2010-05)In the wake of the recent oil disaster in the Gulf, Congress appears poised to impose new bans on offshore drilling along with a strict new regulatory regime. While these measures may meet a widely felt need for swift ...
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(2017-01-13)This study proposes a probabilistic decision-making support model (“Green Tree”), created in Microsoft Excel, to assist operators of marginal assets in prioritizing well workover decisions. Such a tool can help operators ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2022-09-26)Here, the authors propose the benefits of instituting a Sovereign Mexican Fund (SMF), which emulates the Alaska Trust Fund, in order to reconcile the capital investment needs of the energy sector in Mexico with the strong ...
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(2016-05-19)Accurate formation pressure estimation is important to drilling and production operations and necessary for reservoir engineering calculations. Methods developed to estimate formation pressure from well logs are reliable ...