Since the 1860s, petroleum companies, through their influence on local governments, port authorities, international actors and general public gradually became more dominant in shaping urban form of ports cities. Under development pressure, relationships between industrial areas cities hosting oil facilities evolved time. The borders limiting housing territories have continuously changed with pl...

Active development of hard-to-recover oil reserves causes the need for an innovative approach to methods recovery and intensification its production, based on taking into account specifics filtration processes in low-productive reservoirs complex geological physical conditions. Pilot works studying mechanism changes porosity permeability properties during swabbing wells are presented. Based hyd...

In this work a glass micromodel which its grains and pores are non-uniform in size, shape and distribution is considered as porous medium. A two-dimensional random network model of micromodel with non-uniform pores has been constructed. The non-uniformity of porous model is achieved by assigning parametric distribution functions to pores throat and pores length, which was measured using ima...

Advanced and Integrated Petrophysical Characterization for CO2 Storage: Application to the Ketzin Site — Reservoir simulations and monitoring of CO2 storage require specific petrophysical data. We show a workflow that can be applied to saline aquifers and caprocks in order to provide the minimum data set for realistic estimations of storage potential and perform pertinent simulations of CO2 inj...

The classification of well-log responses into separate flow units for generating local permeability models is often used to predict the spatial distribution of permeability in heterogeneous reservoirs. The present research can be divided into two parts; first, the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) log parameters are employed for developing a relationship between relaxation time and reservoir poro...

A facility for digital imaging, visualizing and calculation of reservoir rock properties in three dimensions (3D) is described. The facility includes a high resolution X-ray micro-computed tomography system capable of acquiring 3D images made up of 2000 voxels on core plugs up to 5 cm diameter with resolutions down to 2 μm. Subsets of four sandstone reservoir core plugs (5 mm in diameter) from ...

Numerical meshes of both cork and carbon fibre ablative materials in their virgin and pyrolised states, with realistic porosity and tortuosity, have been created from micro-computed tomography (μCT) scans. The porosity of each material has been calculated from the μCT scans and used to extract smaller representative sample volumes to perform numerical simulations on. Direct simulation Monte Car...

INTRODUCTION: The intervertebral disc undergoes extensive age related degenerative changes. The mechanism for disc degeneration is multifactorial and many studies have proposed that decreased nutrition to the disc is a major contributor to the degeneration process. Because the adult disc nucleus is avascular, the only sources of nutrition are diffusion from the blood vessels of the annulus and ...