At the Sidi Bouzid area located in Central Tunisia, Cenomanian-Turonian reservoir rocks are well outcropping, especially in the Jebel el Kébar and Meloussi areas. The present work confirms that these carbonate intervals constitute the lateral equivalent of the Early-Middle Turonian Biréno and Late Turonian-Coniacian Douleb reservoir Members which are included within the pelagic marls of the Tur...

To extract all the oil from a well, petroleum engineers pump hot reactive chemicals into the well. These Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) processes need to be thoroughly monitored, since the injected fluids can seep out of the production oil wells and, if unchecked, eventually pollute sources of drinking water. There is a need to measure the corresponding effects. One way to measure these undergroun...

Karaha-Telaga Bodas is a recently discovered geothermal system located adjacent to Galunggung Volcano in western Java. Drilling to depths of 3 km has documented an extensive vapor-dominated zone and a deeper liquid reservoir with measured temperatures up to 350C and salinities of 1-2 weight percent. The vein parageneses record the evolution of a high temperature liquid-dominated system that dev...

This study provides insights into the experience gained from investigating thermodynamic behavior of well and reservoir fluids during acid gas injection (AGI) in a hydrocarbon field to enhance oil recovery (EOR) reduce greenhouse emissions. Unlike conventional water natural injection, AGI involves complicated phase changes physical property variations at various pressure-temperature (P-T) condi...

The magmatic-hydrothermal evolution of porphyry-style mineralization in the shallow crust that is linked to magmatic processes at depth has been extensively studied using bulksample isotopic analysis combined with relative timing constraints. However, a lack of evaluation of the fluid evolution process against an absolute time frame limits further understanding of the ore-forming process. Here,...

Fluids within the Earth's crust may exist under supercritical conditions (i.e., >374°C and >22.1 MPa for pure water). Supercritical geothermal reservoirs at depths of 2–10 km below surface in northeastern (NE) Japan mainly consist magmatic fluids that exsolved from melt during course fractional crystallization. have received attention as next-generation resources because they can offer signific...

This study developed a novel C-sharp (C#) programming language for the estimation of bubble point pressure (BPP) various hydrocarbon mixtures at equilibrium state. The methodology was based on vapor–liquid calculation using Peng Robinson equation state implementation, thermodynamic and Newton-Raphson’s method successive substitution unknown variables. equal fugacity constraint can be satisfied ...

The first stage to have access to a reservoir is the drilling operation. The proper development of this operation plays a major role in increasing productivity. It must be pointed out that the drilling fluid (mud) is pivotal in achieving this objective. Among these fluids, water-based fluids are the most common ones, which have been utilized to drill approximately 80% of all wells and are m...