Year 1989

PhD Dissertation

Chukwu, Godwin: Surge and Swab Pressures Determined From Couette Flow of Power Law Fluids

Lekia, Solomon: Composite Models for Combined Rod and Fluid Dynamics in Sucker Rod Pumping Well Systems

Ohen, Henry: Modelling and Simulation of the Effects of Clay Swelling and Fines Migration on Formation Damage

Master's Thesis

Ali, Liaqat: Quantitative Evaluation of High Rates Flow Through Porous Media

Ariza, Mauricio: Transport of Solids in Vertical Conduits

Chang, Fakuen: Analysis of Theories on Primary Petroleum Migration

Chen, Shixin: Uses of Geolphysical Well Logging Techniques in Rejuvenating an Old Oilfield - Cushing, Oklahoma

Chukwu, Felicia: Pressure Derivative Analysis of Vertically Fractured Wells in Bounded Reservoirs

Datta, Sisir: A Study of Chemical Comminution for Bituminous Coal Using Selected Solvents

Do, Son: A Study of Swelling Factor Curves for the Prediction of Minimum Miscibility Pressure in Carbon Dioxide Flooding

Du, Yuncai: Mathematical Simulation of Subsidence With a Three Dimensional Model in an Anisotropic Porous Media

Harun, Amirn: Surface Area Measurement of Geological Materials by Gas Adsorption Method

Madjidi, Ahmad: Conductivity Mapping to Determine Interwell Fluid Saturation in Geologic Structures

Malekzadeh, Dariush: Simulation of Naturally Fractured Reservoirs
Malik, Nadeem: Determination of Dispersivity and Its Correlation With Reservoir Rock Properties

Moore, Robert R.: Development of a Simulator Diagnostic Package for Evaluating Downhole Beam Pumping Performance

Year 1988

PhD Dissertation

Alam, M. Waqi Ul: Relative Permeability Measurement at Simulated Reservoir Conditions

Master's Thesis

Ahmed, Sk Mahbub: Development of Chemical Process Models for Enhanced Oil Recovery

Coughlin, Matthew: The Potential for Recovery of Residual Oil by Microbial

Cox, Glenn William: Design of a Computer Controlled Hydraulic System for Simulating Sucker Rod Pumping

Iqbal, Ghulam: Cleanup of Hydraulically Fractured Gas Wells from Fracturing Fluids

Irani, Rohinton: Production Interference - A Study of Its Impact on Well Performance and Spacing in Oil Reservoirs

Perez-Cardoza, Jorge: Geological History and Sedimentary Environment of the Muskogee Oil Field

Pino, Henry: Reservoir Characterization, a Strategy for History Matching Studies of Petroleum Reservoirs

Randell, Bruce: The Analysis of Four New Oil and Gas Property Volution Parameters - Particularly as Applied to the Acquisition of Oil and Gas Properties

Rezigh, Asghar (Alan): Single Phase Two Dimensional Front Tracking Model for Microcomputers

Smith, Steven Don: The Theoretical Study of the Flow of Slightly Compressible Non-Newtonian Fluids in Eccentric Annuli

Whitney, Dan: Characterization of the Non-Darcy Flow Coefficient in Propped Hydraulic Fractures

Whitney, Sam: The Influence of Alkaline Steam Injection on the Physical Properties of Formation Rock and Proppant

Year 1987

Master's Thesis

Avery, Dale: Optimization of Plunger Lifts Systems for Solution Gas Drive Reservoirs

Holleyman, Randall: Completion Techniques in Shaley Sands, Case Study Prue Formation Township 14N, Range 6, East, Lincoln County, Oklahoma

Krishna, M. Sundar: Effect of Display Type on Operator performance in a Process Control Situation

Krishna, M. Sundar: Effect of Display Type on Operator performance in a Process Control Situation

Nelson, Alan: Root Locus Stability Analysis of a Naturally Flowing Oil Well Feedback Controller

Tiss, Meftah: The Effect of Temperature Non-Darcy Flow Coefficient in Low Permeability, Consolidated Porous Media

Warner, Mark: Characterizing Reservoir Core Sampler and Measuring the Dispersion Coefficient Through Miscible Displacement Experiments

Warren, Tom: A Numerical Solution for Subsidence in an Anisotropic Media

Year 1986

Master's Thesis

Siddiqui, Tariq Kamal: The Relationship Between The Well Log Saturation Exponent and Wettability

Neog, Panaj Kumar: Recovery of Additional Oil from Depleted Reservoirs by Steam Injection

Shreeve, Shauna: The Use of Nonlinear Optimization Techniques to Assign Parameters for Gas Reservoir Simulations

Li, Jinxiang: Effect of the Karman Vortex Streets on Wellbore Bottom Hole Cleaning

Bangming, Hu: Enhanced Oil Recovery with Alkaline/Surfactant Flooding

Moffitt, John: Computer Calculation and Statistical Analysis of Material Balance Equation

Raiders, Richard: Oil Recovery Sweep Efficiency Improvement in Parallel Core Systems Due to the Metabilism of Indigeneous Microorganisms

Alghjeh, Asghar: Investigation of Dynamic Filtration of Drilling Fluid Under High Temperature Conditions

Dandia, Sanjay: Location of an Abandoned Well by Interference Test

Moffitt, John: Computer Calculation and Statistical Analysis of Material Balance Equation

Shadizaded, Reza: The Feasibility of the Use of Nitrous Oxide for Enhanced Oil Recovery

White, David: Experimental Investigation of Eucatex Brazilian Clays for Use in Drilling Fluids

Kianipey, Saeed: Mechanisms of Oil Displacement of Microbes

Year 1985

PhD Dissertation

Duruewuru, Anthony: Thermodynamic Anlaysis of Transient Two-Phase Flow

Paracha, Obed-Ur-Rahman: An Experimental Investigation of the Effect of Carbon Dioxide on Steam Drive Recovery

Ubani, Ephraim A.: Well Performance of Naturally Fractured Sand Reservoirs

Master's Thesis

Ahsan, Syed S.,: Microscope Observations of Fluid Flow in Porous Media

Avila, Carlos E.: The Effects of Temperature and Overburden Pressure on the Non Darcy Flow Coefficient in Porous Media

Barthel Jr., Charles J.: Hydrogeolic Investigation of Artesian Spring Flow, Sulphur, Oklahoma Area

Bizerra, Marlon J.: Relationships of Wettability to the Archie Saturation Exponent

Boone, Lynn E.,: Stabilization of Naturally Flowing Oil Wells Using Feedback Control

Enga, Peter N.: Stability Anlaysis of Continuous Flow Gas Lift Wells

Evans, Eddie V.: The Effects of Mobile and Immobile Liquid Saturation Upon Non-Darcy Flow Coefficients in Propped Fractures

Ewall, Nina: Relationship of Pore Size Distribution to Fluid Flow

Jenneman, Gary E: Microbial Pennetration through Berea Sandstone and the Effect of Nitrate on Biogenic Sulfide Production: Their relevance to Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery

Kapadia, Shahveer P.: Determination of Permeability Variation Factor, V. from Log Analysis

Lin, Pei-Chih: Stability Analyses of Well Heading Problem in Flowing Oil Wells

Maher, Tom: Modeling Crossflow Patterns in Layered Porous Media Undergoing Deep Formation Plugging

Mogharabi, Saeed N.: Study of the Thermo-Dynamic Equilibirum of Capillary Phenomenon in Sandstone

Nguyen, Duc: Capillary Pressure and Wettability Phenomena in Sandstone for a Wide Range of API Gravity Oil

Poulin, Timothy J.: The Determination of the Coefficient of Dispersion in Sandstone

Shadizadah, Seyed Resa: The Feasibility of the Use of Nitrous Oxide for Enhanced Oil Recovery

Warren, Cheryl Cummings: A Method for Predicting Solution Gas Drive Production Decline

Yeomans, David Mark: Calculating Water Influx Parameters Using Optimization Techniques

Yousef, Osama M.: Development, Analysis and Evaluation of Type Curve Analysis Techniques for Lenticular Reservoirs

Year 1984

Master's Thesis

Chisholm, John L.: A Comparison of Shaly Sand Interpretation Techniques in the Mesaverde Group of the Unita Basin, Utah

Dorman, Rosemary: Computer Graphics displays in Petroleum Drilling

Dutta, Subijoy: An Experimental Investigation of Dispersivity and Its Role as an Oil Reservoir Rock Property

Freeman, David Charles: The Use of Microorganisms to Increase the Recovery of Oil from Cores

Greenlee II, James Denton: The Design, Construction and Calibration of a Non-Darcy Flow Experimental Apparatus

Hudson, Cary Scott: The Measurement of the Non-Darcy Flow Coefficient for Multiphase Flow Through Porous Media

Larson, Thomas C.: In Situ Mining of Bituminous Coal via Solvent Comminution Process

Nguyen, Hai Trong: A Compact Fourth-Order Finige Difference Scheme for Solution of One-Dimensional Diffusion-Convection Equations

Torbati, Hadi Massoud: Core Permeability Reduction Using In-Situ Metabolism of Indigeneous Bacteria

Wang, Mo-Kiang: A Study of Solvent Comminution for the Croweburg Bituminous Coal

Year 1983

PhD Dissertation

Bizanti, Mohamed S.: Fluid Dynamics of Bottom-Hole Cleaning

Yu, John Pingshun: Multi-Criteria Optimization Model for Thermal Recovery Processes

Master's Thesis

Alam, Muhammed Waqui: A Laboratory Study of Hot Caustic Polymer Flooding

Berkat, Ali: Effects of WBS and Skin on Short and Long Time Interference Tests

Blaker, Tore: Use of Fractional Flow Theory of Predicting Oil Reservoir Performance in Unstable Miscible Nitrogen Flooding

Iqbal, Ghulam: Determining Optimum Slug Size for Miscible Displacement in Heterogeneous Porous Media

Luoing, Kim P.: A Transient Wellbore Simulation Model with Phase Redistribution

Mannan, Mahboobul: A Study of the Phase Equilibria of Nitorgen with Hydrocarbons

Reza, Mohammed: A Dynamic Non-Linear and Multi-Dimensional Mathematical Drilling Model for Deep Well Applications

Syed, Talibuddin: Oil Recovery by Solvent Flooding and Solvent Extraction

Ubah, Christopher: Application of the Synagraphic Mapping System to Petroleum Reservoirs

White, George: Gas Reserve Estimation in the Unita Basin Using Well Logs

Year 1982

PhD Dissertation

Alarcon Alcocer, Carlos F.: A Laboratory Study with Light Crude Oil to Determine the Effect of High-Pressure Nitrogen Injection on Enhanced Oil Recovery

Alarcon Alcocer, Carlos F.: A Laboratory Study with Light Crude Oil to Determine the Effect of High-Pressure Nitrogen Injection on Enhanced Oil Recovery

Allam, Awad M.: Numerical Simulation of Heterogeneous Fractured Gas Reservoir Systems with Turbulence and Closure Stress Effects

El-Bokle, Farouk Mohammed: Techniques for Evaluating and Improving the Performance of the Iron Oxides Used as Barite Substitutes in Oil Well Drilling Fluids

Nakornthap, Kurujit: Numerical Simulation of Multi-Phase Fluid Flow in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs

Numbere, Daopu Thompson: A New Streamline Modeling Technique for Heterogeneous Porous Media, with Application to Streamflood Prediction

Okoye, Christian U.: Experimental Investigation of Tertiary Oil Recovery to Heavy to Intermediate Oil by Alkaline Steamflooding

Osanloo, Gholi M.: Chemical Communication for Deep and Thin Bituminum Coal by Using CO2 - H20 as a Solvent

Tsay, Siu-Chun: The Laboratory Investigation on the Use of Optimum Caustic Processes in Water Flood Non-Acidic Oil Reservoirs

Master's Thesis

Chu, Min Hsiung: Computer Optimization of Multi-Phase Flowing Well Performance

Egbuzie, Cletus: Computer Optimization of Multi-Phase Flowing Well Performance

Koontz, Craig: Predicting Primary Oil Production Perforamnce of Naturally Fractured Carbonate Solution Gas Drive Reservoirs

Phi, Manh Van: Pressure Analysis of Hydraulically-Fractured Multiple-Layer Reservoir

Revus, David Edward: A Study of Reservoir Selective Plugging Utilizing In Situ Growth of Bacteria to Improve Volumetric Sweep Efficiency

Sigurdsson, Omar: Analysis of Pressure Pulses Resulting from Volcanic Activity in the Vicinity of the Well

Yunker, Stan B.: Enumeration and Growth of the Autotroph Thiobacillus Ferroxidans

Year 1981

PhD Dissertation

Kang, Joo Myung: Finite Element Analysis of the Heat and Mass Transfer to Magna Body

Ofoh, Ebere Paulinus: Development of Suitable Approximation Algorithms to be Used in the Description of Heterogeneous Reservoirs for Secondary Recovery Studies

Schenewerk, Philip Andrew: The Accuracy of Pulsed Neutron Capture Logs for Residual Oil Saturation Determinations

Master's Thesis

Abiro, Wilson Abiodun: Formation Damage by Drilling with Foam

Abobise, Edwin O.: Anlysis of Pulse Tests of Vertical Fractured Wells

Burns, Douglas Eugene: Statutory Well Spacing in Oklahoma

Duruewuru, Anthony U.: Effects of Fluid/Fluid (Water/Oil) Contact on Interference Testing

Gangopadhyay, Pradip K.: Flowline Heater: A Possible Solution for Transporation for Waxy-High Pour Point Crude Oil

McNulty, Robert Roland: Statistical Decline Curve Analysis

Mills, Joseph: A Study of Waterflood Prediction Techniques Using a Modified Dykstra-Parsons Method

Sengupta, Sujit: Pressure Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Reservoirs

Ubani, Ephraim A.: An Analytical Study of Non-Darcy Flow Effects in Propped Fractures

Year 1980

PhD Dissertation

Morris, John David: Development and Properties of a Self-Bursting Pellet as Agglomerated from Coal Fines by Use of an Organic Binder

Najjor-Bawab, M. Mummtaz: Application of Computer to Lithostratigraphic Correlation and Three Dimensional Configuration

Osman, Mohammed El-Sayed: Pressure Analysis and Water Flooding Performance of Heterogeneous Oil Reservoirs

Master's Thesis

Abure, Ebhonakhoye Areban: A Systematic Approach to Determining Vertical Reservoir Heterogeneity by Interference Testing

Ahmed, Tarek H.: An Experimental Study of Crude Oil Recovery by High Pressure Nitrogen Injection

Apande, Emmuel Alobwede: A Theoretical Analysis of Wellbore Failure and Stability as Affected by a Specially-Prepared Colloidal Asphalt Emulsion

Aswad, Zeiad A.: Optimization Techniques for a Multi-Dimensional Drilling Model

Atencio, Nestor A.: Optimal Gas Field Development Techniques Development

Bastidas, Ramon O.: An Economic Analysis of Offshore Field Development

Brokaw, John: The Effects of Reservoir Heterogeneity on Primary Production Decline Performance

Cheng, Mo Chun: Two Dimensional Simulation of Heat and Fluid Flow in Geothermal Systems

Gazi, M.D. Nazmul: Development and Investigation of a Petroleum Prediction Method from Well Data

Khan, Mohammed Gulnawaz: Review of Well Log Interpretation Principles of Shaly Sands

Moussa, Mohamed Mahmoud: New Techniques to Measure and Control Corrosion of Drilling Fluids at Elevated Temperature

Nesbitt, Douglas: Industry Disincentives Created by Federal Crude Oil Pricing Law

Osman, Mahmoud Mostafa: An Experimental Investigation of the Steam Sodium Hydroxide Displacement Process

Perez Beltran, Carlos A.: Modeling Miscible Process Using a Modified Two-Dimensional Three-Phase Immiscible Reservoir Simulator

Puon, Peter Suho: An Analytic Study of the Redox Log

Puthigai, Suresh K.: Application of Derivative of PD Function to Vertically-Fractured Wells

Reddy, Raja P.: Theoretical Model to Predict the Growth and Swelling Behavior of Clay on Hydration

Saisasong, Atapon: Study of Distribution of Residual Oil Saturation by Statistical Methods

Sarathi, Paratha S.: Thermodynamic Analysis of Gas Reservoirs

Sato, Yuji: Off-Shore Fracture Pressure Gradient Estimate and Its Application in Drilling Fluid Density

Sims, Steven M.: The Valuation of Nonproducing Mineral Estates in Land

Venkatesh, Eswarahalli: Application of Petroleum Data System to Oil Field Evaluations


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