• Effect of barium and strontium on low salinity waterflooding 

      Halvorsen, Cathrine (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-06-27)
      Much work has been done on the subject of low salinity waterflooding (LSWF) as a potential enhanced oil recovery method. It has been shown many times that reducing the salinity of the injected brine could have a positive ...
    • Effect of Colloidal Transport on CO2 Injectivity 

      Ginting, Pahmi (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      Climate change is a long term change in weather due to Earth process, volcanic activity and change concentration of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. CO2 is generated mainly from industrial ...
    • Effect of core cleaning solvents on wettability restoration and oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition in surface reactive, low permeable limestone reservoir cores 

      Aksulu, Hakan (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)
      The success of oil recovery, by water flooding, in naturally fractured, low permeable limestone reservoirs strictly depends on imbibition of injected water into the reservoir matrix block. Prerequisite of imbibition process ...
    • Effect of IFT on gravity segregation in mixed wet reservoir 

      Purwanto, Eko (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2011;, Master thesis, 2011)
      The effects of water-oil interfacial tension (IFT) on gravity segregation and its implication on oil recovery have been investigated by numerical simulations and steady state upscaling. Eclipse surfactant model was used ...
    • Effect of Nano Additives on Friction in a Bentonite Water Based System 

      Forthun, Shirin Charlotte (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-13)
      This thesis will present relevant literature study and theory for the experimental and simulation parts. Several water based drilling fluids containing high and low concentrations of TiN, MoS2 and Graphene in nano-size ...
    • Effect of Nano silica and salts on CMC/PAC polymer –Bentonite fluid system 

      Ågotnes, Mona Fosseli (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-15)
      Drilling fluids are an integral part of drilling operations. The quality of the fluid system determines the success of drilling operations. Recently the application of nanotechnology shows positive results in cement, ...
    • Effect of Nano silica and Salts on Xanthan gum polymer-Bentonite solution 

      Fiveland, Annbjørg (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015)
      The application of nanotechnology shows positive results in the oil and gas industry, with respect to cement, drilling fluid and enhanced oil recovery. In this thesis, an optimized nano-fluid in Xanthan gum (XC) polymer ...
    • Effect of Nano silica in brine treated PAC/XC/ LV-CMC polymer Bentonite fluid system 

      Reza, Mirzai (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06)
      In this thesis the performance of Nano silica in polymer based bentonite fluid system was analysed. Several combination of Nano with salt and polymer types were formulated and tested. The effect of temperature, salt, polymer ...
    • Effect of small amounts of surfactants on oil-water dispersion 

      Fateev, Gleb (Master thesis, 2014-06-16)
      The present work reports the study of oil-water dispersions in static conditions. All experiments were carried out with a mineral oil and tap water in glass beakers with mixing of the phases. Small amounts of non-ionic ...
    • Effect of water flow in gravel pack with regards to heavy oil production 

      Ramstad, Barbro (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)
      The objective of the thesis is to see how the effect of water is displacing the oil through gravel pack. Experimental solutions have been developed for displacement performance of two vertical displacements and one horizontal. ...
    • Effect Screen Erosion on Reservoir Performance 

      Gjedrem, Christian (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-15)
      Oil and gas are mainly produced from sandstone reservoirs, where sand production may play an important role in the whole reservoir development strategy, not only in terms of optimizing well completion, but in well rate and ...
    • Effective application of solvent addition for improving the performance of SAGD process 

      Hesland, Bjørnar (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)
      This research attempts to assess the effects of changing the injection times for CO2 solvent injection in the Solvent Assisted SAGD process and to study the phase behavior of Steam, Solvent and Oil. Simulations were ...
    • Effects of fines migration on CO2 well injectivity 

      Timilsina, Bikram (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      Carbon capture and storage is considered an important way to reduce atmospheric emission of greenhouse gases such as CO2. This technology involves capture of carbon from the source of emission, transportation to storage ...
    • Effects of ions on oil recovery by low salinity water flooding on chalk reservoir 

      Gupta, Sachin (Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      Low salinity water flooding has shown its potential for incremental oil recovery. It has been widely researched Oil Recovery method. However, the mechanism of the method has not fully understood. This is mainly due to ...
    • Effects of Lost Circulation Material on Cement Properties 

      Erlbeck, Fredrik (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-15)
      This study aims to find the effect lost circulation materials has on cement slurries through testing in viscometer, pressurised consistometer and static gel strength analyser at selected concentrations. A worksheet containing ...
    • Effects of salt geometry on the overburden calculation for borehole stability study 

      Derusov, Artem (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-29)
      Pre-drill pore pressure and fracture gradient predictions are important for successful drilling and well construction. There are numerous different methods for calculating the pore pressure in shales without direct ...
    • Electrofacies analysis - a possible use in Paleogeographic understanding of a North Sea reservoir 

      Titova, Anastasia (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2015;, Master thesis, 2015-06-15)
      The study area is centered around the B prospect, which is situated in block 34/6, in the northern part of the Tampen Spur area, northern North Sea. In the study area, lateral changes in reservoir properties of the Lower ...
    • Emulsions For Enhanced Oil Recovery EOR 

      Santos, Nicolas (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06)
      ______Oil recovery projects have become a valuable source in oil industry in the recent years due to market challenges and economic stability. This is a typical practice that have been applied in oil and gas reservoirs to ...
    • En studie av kunnskapsdeling og erfaringsoverføring i boreoperasjon og brønnplanlegging 

      Rønnevik, Stian Dubland (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2010;, Master thesis, 2010)
      Denne oppgaven tar utgangspunkt i hvordan kunnskapsdeling og erfaringsoverføring praktiseres innen avdelingen for brønnplanlegging og boreoperasjon i Odfjell Well Management AS (OWM). Formålet med oppgaven var å analysere ...
    • Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by "smart water" in carbonates reservoir 

      Roostaei, Alireza (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IPT/2014;, Master thesis, 2014-05-30)
      Characterization of the reservoir limestone cores has to be specified to obtain possible solution (designed water) based EOR technique to enhance the oil production. In this project a parametric study was performed to ...