Nowadays one of the most important energy sources is natural gas. By depletion of oil reservoirs in the world, natural gas will emerge as the future energy source for human life. One of the major concerns of gas suppliers is being able to supply this source of energy the entire year. This concern intensifies during more consuming seasons of the year when the demand for natural gas increases, r...

crude glycerol (cg) is an abundantly available and cheap by-product from biodiesel production. value-added applications for cg are highly wanted by industry and several processes such as the use of cg for enhanced oil recovery have been proposed. the aim of this study was to evaluate the sulfide production of sulfate-reducing bacteria (srb) indigenous to oil reservoirs using cg as substrate. th...

as observed in some oil and gas countries, upstream service contracts, for instance buy-back contract in iran, would provide an appropriate environment for the development of oil and gas fields. however, certain cases, such as common structures and reservoirs, deep sea oil fields or second and third generations of an oil field may require more attractive contractual mechanisms in the eyes of io...

Often in oil reservoirs a layer of water lies under the layer of oil. The suction pressure due to a distribution of oil wells will cause the oil-water interface to rise up towards the wells. A three-dimensional boundary integral formulation is presented for calculating the steady interface shape when the oil wells are represented by point sinks. Sophisticated integration techniques are implemen...

More percentage of new productions in oil industry is from unconventional oil and gas such as oil shale, tar sand, laminated sand, tight oil (siltstone), tight gas, gas hydrate, and igneous rock, because the conventional oil and gas can no longer meet the need of the world. Researchers in response pay more attentions to the unconventional resources. Formation properties such as total organic ca...

Fracture reservoirs contain most of the oil reserves of the Middle East. Such reservoirs are poorly understood and recovery from fractured reservoirs is typically lower than those from conventional reservoirs. Many efforts have been made to enhance the recovery and production potential of these reservoirs. Fractured reservoirs with high matrix porosity and low matrix permeability need a seconda...

Water-soluble polymers are known to be used in chemically enhanced oil recovery (EOR) processes, but their applications are limited in high-temperature and high-salinity oil reservoirs because of their inherent poor salt tolerance and weak thermal stability. Hydrophobic association of partially hydrolyzed polyacryamide (HAHPAM) complexed with silica nanoparticles to prepare nano-hybrids is repo...