...Chiedozie Ekweribe; Faruk Civan 17 11 2011 18 11 2011 02 12 2011 02 12 2011 gels offshore installations petroleum industry pipelines waxes This article was erroneously published in the September issue. It should have been published in the December special issue...

... multiphase flow petroleum industry process control separation water meters 22 07 2009 14 08 2011 02 12 2011 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

...Dong Xiang; Ram S. Mohan; Jack D. Marrelli; Shoubo Wang; Ovadia Shoham Accurate and continuous measurement of the percent water in crude oil production streams (watercut) over 0 to 100% range is critical for petroleum industry. High accuracy and stability are also required for surface measurement...

... multiphase flow petroleum industry production facilities pumps response surface methodology test facilities vortices water treatment dissolved gas flotation forced vortex response surface methodology fluid dynamics Flotation technology dates back to 1860, when the industry in Europe...

... 2008 05 02 2009 channel flow conformal mapping hydrocarbon reservoirs petroleum industry productivity well logging productivity anisotropic channel rectangular sector fault Well productivity is one of primary concerns in field development and provides the basis...

... 09 2008 07 11 2008 hydrodynamics multiphase flow natural gas technology orifices (mechanical) petroleum industry separation Economic and operational pressures continue to force the petroleum industry to seek less expensive alternatives to conventional gravity-based...

... GLCC have been developed, including the analysis of the AFE. The model predictions agree with the experimental data within ± 15 % for low pressure and ± 25 % for high pressure conditions. 21 08 2007 19 09 2008 06 11 2008 flow separation natural gas technology petroleum industry...

... fluctuations multiphase flow petroleum industry pipe flow pipelines slip flow statistical analysis Gas-liquid two-phase flow in pipes occurs at production and transportation facilities for oil and gas. The most common type of flow patterns in field operation for horizontal and near horizontal...

... sink (Sink 2) is located at the upper 1/3 of the formation below OWC. 08 04 2007 20 04 2008 11 08 2008 oil technology petroleum industry production facilities reservoirs water coning bottom water non-Newtonian oil improve oil recovery Water coning has been...

...Goran Durn; Nediljka Gaurina-Međimurec; Heinz Fröschl; John A. Veil; Boris Veronek; Sanja Mesić Exploration and production (E&P) waste generated by the petroleum industry in Croatia from two central oilfield pits (COPs) was investigated in order to (1) examine materials for waste treatment...

... a concise review of literature related to the galling testers that may have applications to OCTG. 20 11 2006 28 11 2007 04 02 2008 corrosion failure (mechanical) gas industry mechanical testing petroleum industry test equipment galling tester oil and country tubular goods...

... 2005 Kalman filters Monte Carlo methods covariance matrices data assimilation petroleum industry History matching is the process of adjusting the variables in a reservoir simulation model so that the computed values of observables such as rates, or pressures, or saturations...

... ). fines migration colloids thermal oil recovery laboratory studies DLVO porous materials crystal microstructure rocks clay porosity pH permeability colloids scanning electron microscopy petroleum industry 12 08 2004 15 03 2005 16 03 2005 In DLVO theory...

... pressurization, whereas tensile-type mechanisms were dominant during oil injection. These results could be helpful in optimizing stimulation treatments in the petroleum industry. Contributed by the Petroleum Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY . Manuscript received...

...Charles A. S. Hall 22 06 2004 sustainable development environmental economics renewable energy sources energy conservation petroleum industry As a card-carrying ecologist I would like to commend Lyn Arscott’s recent discussion (“Sustainable development in the oil and gas...

... and TOC. This investigation shows that stabilization with lime is not always a suitable method for treatment of wastes from the petroleum industry, particularly those that are contaminated with both organic and inorganic contaminants. Proper characterization of the waste material to be processed is needed...

...Jose´ Caridad; Frank Kenyery The behavior of electric submersible pumps (ESP) handling two-phase flow is a subject of primary concern, especially in the petroleum industry, where significant amounts of free gas may be found in oil wells production. In the past, several attempts were made to predict...

...Lyn Arscott 04 05 2004 petroleum industry natural gas technology sustainable development pollution control socio-economic effects environmental management The distribution of heat between the equatorial zones and the polar regions caused by ocean currents is a potentially...

...; revised manuscript received August 2003. Associate Editor: G. Robello Samuel. 01 July 2002 01 August 2003 04 05 2004 offshore installations oil technology vibrations petroleum industry Recently there has been concern about possible excitation of the higher modes...

... by the Petroleum Division Apr. 2001; revised manuscript received Jul. 2003. Associate Editor: J. Keska. 05 Feb 2001 01 Apr 2001 01 Jul 2003 18 11 2003 energy resources natural gas technology petroleum industry distributed sensors monitoring separation polymerisation chemical...