For Mass, distributed, heterogeneous data sources of petroleum engineering, this paper presents an petroleum engineering semantic-based data integration technology based on building global semantic mode. PSDT builds a global semantic data model which appropriate to the domain of Petroleum engineering by ontology extraction, ontology mapping, ontology merging, ontology evolution and constraint r...

It is well known that reservoir simulation studies are very subjective and vary from simulator to simulator. While SPE benchmarking has helped accept differences in predicting petroleum reservoir performance, there has been no scientific explanation behind the variability that has frustrated many policy makers and operations managers and puzzled scientists and engineers. In a recent book by the...

Here, we report the draft genome sequence of Geobacillus thermoleovorans strain B23, which was isolated from a deep subterranean petroleum reservoir in Japan. An array of genes related to unique long-chain alkane degradation pathways in G. thermoleovorans B23 has been identified by whole-genome analyses of this strain.

The understanding of the phylogenetic diversity, metabolic capabilities, ecological roles, and community dynamics taking place in oil reservoir microbial communities is far from complete. The interest in studying microbial diversity and metabolism in petroleum reservoirs lies mainly but not only on providing a better comprehension of biodegradation of crude oils, since it represents a worldwide...

In the Niger Delta, low oil recovery rates less than 30% results mainly due to production problems such as water coning, wax deposition and high gas/oil ratios. Meanwhile, remaining becomes a good candidate for EOR methods CO2 injection, polymer foam in-situ combustion steam injection. But it stands, practice of these known enhanced is scarce in Nigeria’s Oil Gas industry. However, this project...

Marine controlled source electromagnetic (MCSEM) surveys have become an important part of offshore petroleum exploration. In this paper we present a new approach to 3-D inversion of MCSEM data. It is based on rigorous integral equation (IE) forward modeling and a new IE representation of the sensitivity (Frechet derivative matrix) of observed data to variations in sea-bottom conductivity. This ...

Fluorosurfactants are effective in a variety of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) techniques including (i) improving subterranean wetting, (ii) increasing foam stability, and (iii) modifying the surface properties of the reservoir formation. While fluorosurfactants have been used in gas and oil exploration for four decades, the increased demand for petroleum and the greater understanding of the benef...

In petroleum industry, during production, the vertical effective stress in the reservoir increases as the pore pressure decreases from few hundreds to few tens bar; in average the horizontal effective stress increases as well, but at a lower rate along an oedometric path, favoring shear stress and reservoir depletion; a complex geology induces locally a variety of stress paths between the two e...

The Ekofisk field, Norwegian North sea, is an example of a compacting chalk reservoir with considerable subsequent seafloor subsidence due to petroleum production. Previously, a number of models were created to predict the compaction using different phenomenological approaches. Here we present a different approach which includes a new creep model based on microscopic mechanisms with no fitting ...

The gas hydrate petroleum system in the permafrost of the Qilian Mountains, which exists as an epigenetic hydrocarbon reservoir above a deep-seated hydrocarbon reservoir, has been dynamic since the end of the Late Pleistocene because of climate change. The permafrost limits the occurrence of gas hydrate reservoirs by changing the pressure-temperature (P-T) conditions, and it affects the migrati...