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The Seismic Imaging and Interpretation of Faults: A Case Study from the Snøhvit Field, Barents Sea
(PhD thesis UiS;568, Doctoral thesis, 2021-01)An accurate understanding of faults in the subsurface is critical to successful petroleum exploration and production. Faults define sediment distribution pathways during deposition, act as barriers or conduits to fluid ... -
Permeability evolution in chalk linked to stress and thermochemical aspects of North Sea reservoir conditions
(PhD thesis UiS;564, Doctoral thesis, 2020-12)The project was initiated by The National IOR Centre of Norway within the University of Stavanger and it aligns with the overall goal of the centre to improve oil recovery on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. It contributes ... -
Provenance Evaluation of Lower Cretaceous in the Stappen High Area and Implications for Reservoir Development
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-07-28)Southeast directed fluvio-deltaic systems transported across Svalbard during Early Cretaceous are age correlated to southeast progradation deposits in the in Fingerdjupet Subbasin. Both local (few km) and distal (>300 km) ... -
Predictive Dynamic Models of the Upper Jurassic Ula Fm Aquifer Between the Ula and Oda Fields, Norwegian Central Graben, North Sea
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-07-15)The Ula and Oda oil fields in the southern part of the Norwegian Central Graben have high quality Upper Jurassic sandstone reservoirs from the shallow marine Ula Fm. Pressure data from the Oda field indicates communication ... -
Acquisition, Processing and Interpretation of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Data in Aidonia, Greece
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020)The Mycenaean Cemetery of Aidonia, Greece, is located about 10 km west of the town of New Nemea on the Peloponnese peninsula. In this cemetery, a number of chamber tombs dating from 1600-1100 B.C. was discovered in the ... -
(Sub)regional Hydrocarbon Potential in the Valanginian Mulichinco Formation in the North-Eastern Part of the Neuquén Basin
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-07-13)Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Neuquén Basin has been the most important hydrocarbon producer in Argentina. Many different conventional plays have been explored and exploited, while, the unconventional ... -
A study of Machine Learning application on net-to-gross prediction using seismic horizons. Case Study: The Brent Group - Statfjord Field
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020-07-15)As petroleum geosciences enter the era of big data, this field of study encompass difficult optimization and decision-making in real-world problems. The increasing number, difficulty, and scale of such specific problems ... -
High resolution heavy mineral studies from Silurian to Triassic successions exposed in the Altiplano of Bolivia (Central Andes)
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020)Heavy mineral studies play an important role in the understanding of a clastic sediment or sedimentary rock. The mineral composition of a clastic rock may reflect the provenance and sedimentological processes such as sorting ... -
Comparison of facies models based on stochastic versus deterministic AVO inversion
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2020;, Master thesis, 2020)This thesis compares facies models based on deterministic AVO inversion – which is a standard approach in the industry, and stochastic AVO inversion – which is a newer, less popular approach, but according to literature, ... -
The impact of salt tectonics on the Mesozoic sedimentation and petroleum systems of the Norwegian Barents Sea
(PhD thesis UiS;540, Doctoral thesis, 2020-09)In the Norwegian Barents Sea, Mesozoic and Cenozoic mobilization of Pennsylvanian-lower Permian layered evaporite sequences (LES) resulted in areas with salt tectonics (e.g. Nordkapp, Tromsø and Tiddlybanken basins), which ... -
Determination of phase-partitioning tracer candidates in production waters from oilfields based on solid-phase microextraction followed by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-08)In the present document, we report the development of an analytical method consisting of a sequential direct-immersion/headspace solid-phase microextraction (DI-HS-SPME) followed by gas-phase chromatography and tandem mass ... -
Effects of permeability on CO2 dissolution and convection at reservoir temperature and pressure conditions: A visualization study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)When CO2 is injected into aquifers, CO2 will dissolve into the water phase. CO2 dissolution initiated by diffusion, will increase the density of the water phase and thereby commence the convective flow of CO2. The objective ... -
Controls of basin margin tectonics on the Lower Cretaceous sedimentation in the Norwegian Barents Sea
(PhD thesis UiS;530, Doctoral thesis, 2020-06)Structural styles and stratigraphic patterns along North Atlantic margins display a large spectrum of complexity and variability. An extensive amount of subsurface data from the north-central and south-western Barents Sea ... -
Thermal properties of reservoir rocks, role of pore fluids, minerals and digenesis. A comparative study of two differently indurated chalks
(PhD theses;494, Doctoral thesis, 2020-01)Carbonate rocks are distressed by temperature fluctuations, most commonly observed in marble monuments and cladding exposed to varying outdoor temperatures. Similarly, reservoir rocks are cooled on periodic basises during ... -
EOR by Seawater and “Smart Water” Flooding in High Temperature Sandstone Reservoirs
(PhD theses (TN-lER);508, Doctoral thesis, 2020-04)In the last decades, when the first treated injection water has resulted in incremental oil recovery, the activity to explore this technique has increased. And today, Smart Water flooding or low salinity flooding in sandstone ... -
Modeling Viscosity of CO2 at High Temperature and Pressure Conditions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-03)The present work aims at applying Machine Learning approaches to predict CO2 viscosity at different thermodynamical conditions. Various data-driven techniques including multilayer perceptron (MLP), gene expression programming ... -
Steady State Relative Permeability Experiments with Capillary End Effects: Analytical Solutions including Derivation of the Intercept Method
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)Steady state relative permeability experiments are performed by coinjection of two (or more) immiscible fluids. The relative permeabilities can be calculated directly from the stabilized pressure drop and saturation of the ... -
Interpretation of 1-D Counter-Current Spontaneous Imbibition Processes Using Microscopic Diffusion Theory and a Modified Buckley – Leverett Approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-04)This paper presents a new convenient and easy-to-use method to analyze and calculate measurable quantities in 1-D counter-current (COUC) spontaneous imbibition (SI) processes. Cumulative water imbibed vs time can be ... -
Principle Component Analysis as a Method For Error Covariance Matrix Inflation
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IER/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-07-13)An oil and gas discovery goes through a multiple-stage process to increase the understanding of the asset in hand. By increasing the understanding of the field, production plan gains extra credibility and the uncertainty ... -
Estimation of Adsorption Capacity of CO2, CH4, and their Binary Mixtures in Quidam Shale using LSSVM: Application in CO2 Enhanced Shale Gas Recovery and CO2 Storage
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02)Carbon dioxide enhanced shale gas recovery depends strongly on adsorption properties of carbon dioxide and methane. In this work, Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization, has ...