January 2013

Investigation into the rheological and filtration properties of drilling mud formulated with clays from Northern Nigeria

  Rheological properties of drilling mud formulated from ten samples of Nigerian clay and treated with sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) were determined. Four different formulations were made: A (22.5 g / 350 ml of mud + 0% Na2CO3), B (22.5 g / 350 ml of mud + 10% Na2CO3), C (25 g / 350 ml of mud + 10% Na2CO3) and D (28 g / 350 ml of mud + 10% Na2CO3). None of the samples tested in their natural state exhibited...

Author(s): O. Omole, James O. Adeleye, Olugbenga Falode, S. Malomo and O. A. Oyedeji

January 2013

Determination of petroleum property using artificial intelligence tools

  Viscosity is one of the most important governing parameters of the fluid flow, either in the porous media or in pipelines. So it is important to use an accurate method to calculate the oil viscosity at various operating conditions. In the literature, several empirical correlations have been proposed for predicting crude oil viscosity. However these correlations are not able to predict the oil viscosity...

Author(s): Reza Abedini and Amir Mosayebi

January 2012

Fast combustion assisted gravity drainage (FCAGD) process for heavy oil recovery enhancement

  "Fast combustion assisted gravity drainage" (FCAGD) process is a novel heavy oil recovery enhancement method which is a specific combination of the two in-situcombustion process and steam assisted gravity drainage process. In this paper, the novel FCAGD thermal heavy oil recovery enhancement process has been presented by an improved simulation with an Eclipse500 simulator and has been...

Author(s): Mehrdad  Alemi, Mansour Kalbasi, and  Fariborz Rashidi,