SPE Journal
Volume 14, Number 2, June 2009

Inevitable Disappointment in Projects Selected on the Basis of Forecasts

M. Chen and J. Dyer, University of Texas at Austinpp. 216-221Preview | PDF ( 1,050 KB )    Rights & Permission

Determination of Gas Trapping With Foam Using X-Ray Computed Tomography and Effluent Analysis

Q.P. Nguyen,Delft University of Technology; W.R. Rossen,University of Texas at Austin; and P.L.J. Zitha and P.K. Currie, Delft University of Technologypp. 222-236Preview | PDF ( 5,404 KB )    Rights & Permission

Study of Enhanced-Oil-Recovery Mechanism of Alkali/Surfactant/Polymer Flooding in Porous Media From Experiments

Pingping Shen, SPE, Jialu Wang, SPE, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina; Shiyi Yuan, SPE, Taixian Zhong, SPE, PetroChina; and Xu Jia, Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChinapp. 237-244Preview | PDF ( 1,763 KB )    Rights & Permission

A Study of Polyacrylamide-Based Gels Crosslinked With Polyethyleneimine

Ghaithan A. Al-Muntasheri, SPE, Saudi Aramco; Hisham A. Nasr-El-Din, SPE, Texas A&M University; Khalid R. Al-Noaimi, SPE, Saudi Aramco and Stanford University; and Pacelli L.J. Zitha, SPE, Delft University of Technologypp. 245-251Preview | PDF ( 673 KB )    Rights & Permission

Quantitative Mechanism for Permeability Reduction by Small Water Saturation in Tight-Gas Sandstones

Siyavash Motealleh, SPE, and Steven L. Bryant, SPE, The University of Texas at Austinpp. 252-258Preview | PDF ( 1,618 KB )    Rights & Permission

Mechanisms, Parameters, and Modeling of Naphthenate-Soap-Induced Formation Damage

S. Sarac, SPE, F. Civan, SPE, The University of Oklahomapp. 259-266Preview | PDF ( 623 KB )    Rights & Permission

Numerical Studies on the Geomechanical Stability of Hydrate-Bearing Sediments

Jonny Rutqvist and George J. Moridis, SPE, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratorypp. 267-282Preview | PDF ( 4,094 KB )    Rights & Permission

Analyses of Wellbore Instability in Drilling Through Chemically Active Fractured-Rock Formations

Vinh X. Nguyen, Younane N. Abousleiman, SPE, and Son K. Hoang, PoroMechanics Institute, University of Oklahomapp. 283-301Preview | PDF ( 8,094 KB )    Rights & Permission

Coupling Equation-of-State Compositional and Surfactant Models in a Fully Implicit Parallel Reservoir Simulator Using the Equivalent-Alkane-Carbon-Number Concept

C. Han, SPE, M. Delshad, SPE, G.A. Pope, SPE, and K. Sepehrnoori, SPE, Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austinpp. 302-310Preview | PDF ( 1,456 KB )    Rights & Permission

Stability Criteria for Thermal Adaptive Implicit Compositional Flows

Arthur Moncorgé, SPE, Total E&P USA, and Hamdi A. Tchelepi, SPE, Stanford Universitypp. 311-322Preview | PDF ( 2,178 KB )    Rights & Permission

Numerical Modeling of Diffusion in Fractured Media for Gas-Injection and -Recycling Schemes

Hussein Hoteit, SPE, and Abbas Firoozabadi, SPE, Reservoir Engineering Research Institutepp. 323-337Preview | PDF ( 2,856 KB )    Rights & Permission

Black-Oil Simulations for Three-Component, Three-Phase Flow in Fractured Porous Media

S. Geiger, SPE, Heriot-Watt University; S. Matthäi, SPE, University of Leoben; and J. Niessner and R. Helmig, University of Stuttgartpp. 338-354Preview | PDF ( 1,992 KB )    Rights & Permission

A General Unstructured-Grid, Equation-of-State-Based, Fully Implicit Thermal Simulator for Complex Reservoir Processes

K. Liu, G. Subramanian, D.I. Dratler, J.P. Lebel, and J.A. Yerian, ExxonMobilpp. 355-361Preview | PDF ( 784 KB )    Rights & Permission

Transient Flow in Discretely Fractured Porous Media

Mehdi Izadi, SPE, Norwest Questa Engineering, and Turhan Yildiz, SPE, Colorado School of Minespp. 362-373Preview | PDF ( 837 KB )    Rights & Permission

Estimating Channelized-Reservoir Permeabilities With the Ensemble Kalman Filter: The Importance of Ensemble Design

Behnam Jafarpour, Texas A&M University, and Dennis B. McLaughlin, Massachusetts Institute of Technologypp. 374-388Preview | PDF ( 5,832 KB )    Rights & Permission