Browsing Vitenskapelige publikasjoner (TN-IPT) by Issue Date
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“Smart water” as a wettability modifier in chalk: The effect of salinity and ionic composition
(Doctoral thesis; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Seawater can improve the water wetness of chalk at high temperatures, which improves the oil displacement by spontaneous imbibition of water. It is experimentally verified that the interaction between Ca2+, Mg2+, and SO42− ... -
Wettability alteration in carbonates: the effect of water-soluble carboxylic acids in crude oil
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Doctoral thesis, 2010)Acidic components in crude oil influence the wetting condition through their effect on electrostatic interactions with the mineral surfaces. In this paper, we have extracted water-soluble acids from a crude oil with a high ... -
Role of Seepage Forces on Seismicity Triggering
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-11)Borehole fluid injection is commonly used for geological sequestration of carbon dioxide, underground storage of natural gas, waste injections, and during stimulations and development of geothermal and hydrocarbon reservoirs. ... -
Water-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by “Smart Water”: optimal ionic composition for EOR in carbonates
(Journal article; Peer reviewed; Doctoral thesis, 2011)The composition of the injecting brine has a profound effect on the efficiency of water-based enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods. Recently, we observed that not only is the concentration of the active ions Ca2+, Mg2+, ... -
Effect of water-extractable carboxylic acids in crude oil on wettability in carbonates
(Journal article, 2011)The acidic components of the crude oil have a profound effect on the initial wetting conditions and possible wettability alteration by seawater in carbonates. In this work, three types of crude oils with different ... -
Global weak solutions for a gas liquid model with external forces and general pressure law
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)In this work we show existence of global weak solutions for a two-phase gas-liquid model where the gas phase is represented by a general isothermal pressure law, whereas the liquid is assumed to be incompressible. To make ... -
Weak solutions for a gas liquid model relevant for describing gas-kick in oil wells
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)The purpose of this paper is to establish a local in time existence result for a compressible gas-liquid model. The model is a drift-flux model which is composed of two continuity equations and one mixture momentum equation ... -
Global weak solutions for a compressible gas-liquid model with well-formation interaction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011-10)Abstract. The objective of this work is to explore a compressible gas-liquid model designed for modeling of well °ow processes. We build into the model well-reservoir interaction by allowing °ow of gas between well and ... -
Numerical treatment of two-phase flow in capillary heterogeneous porous media by finite-volume approximations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)This paper examines two-phase flow in porous media with heterogeneous capillary pressure functions. This problem has received very little attention in the literature, and constitutes a challenge for numerical discretization, ... -
A compressible two-phase model with pressure-dependent well-reservoir interaction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This paper deals with a two-phase compressible gas-liquid model relevant for modeling of gas-kick flow scenarios in oil wells. To make the model more realistic we include a natural pressure-dependent well-formation ... -
Genuine two-phase flow dynamics with a free interface separating gas-liquid mixture from gas
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This paper deals with a two-phase compressible gas-liquid model relevant for modeling of gas-kick flow scenarios in oil wells. To make the model more realistic we include a natural pressure-dependent well-formation ... -
Asymptotic behavior of a compressible two-phase model with well–formation interaction.
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-02)In this work we consider a compressible gas–liquid model with a well–reservoir interaction term that is relevant for coupled wellbore-reservoir flow systems involved in e.g. drilling operations. Main focus is on deriving ... -
Structural evolution of Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees) derived from sandbox, numerical and 3D structural modelling techniques
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-03)This paper reports on the integration of different modelling techniques to construct a unified conceptual model of structural evolution of the Pico del Águila anticline (External Sierras, southern Pyrenees, Spain). The ... -
An exponential time-differencing method for monotonic relaxation systems
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)We present first and second-order accurate exponential time differencing methods for a special class of stiff ODEs, denoted as monotonic relaxation ODEs. Some desirable accuracy and robustness properties of our methods are ... -
Metallic nanoparticles for enhanced heavy oil recovery: promises and challenges
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)With the increasing global energy demand, great attention has been focused on utilizing heavy oil and bitumen, which are potentially located ultra-deep underground and cannot be easily recovered. Numerous recovery approaches ... -
The performance of a heat pump using nanofluid (R22+TiO2) as the working fluid – an experimental study
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)It has been well known that the nano-particles, including metals, oxides, carbides, or carbon nanotubes, can increase the conduction and convection coefficients and consequently, enhance the heat transfer. Using nanofluids ... -
Porosity and permeability development in compacting chalks during flooding of nonequilibrium brines: Insights from long-term experiment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-05)We report the complete chemical alteration of a Liège outcrop chalk core resulting from a 1072 flow-through experiment performed during mechanical compaction at 130°C. Chemical rock-fluid interactions alter the volumetric ... -
Evaluation of the compositional changes during flooding of reactive fluids using scanning electron microscopy, nano-secondary ion mass spectrometry, x-ray diffraction, and whole-rock geochemistry
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-05)Outcrop chalk of late Campanian age (Gulpen Formation) from Liège (Belgium) was flooded with MgCl2 in a triaxial cell for 516 days under reservoir conditions to understand how the non-equilibrium nature of the fluids altered ... -
Mechanical and physical behavior of high-porosity chalks exposed to chemical perturbation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09)Extensive study on the effect of dissolution–precipitation on mechanical behavior of various high-porosity outcrop chalks (Liége, Aalborg, Kansas, Stevns Klint, and Mons) flooded with simplified aqueous chemistry at 130 ... -
Rate of penetration optimization using moving horizon estimation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Increase of drilling safety and reduction of drilling operation costs, especially improvement of drilling efficiency, are two important considerations in the oil and gas industry. The rate of penetration (ROP, alternatively ...