[HTML][HTML] Tight and shale oil exploration: a review of the global experience and a case of West Siberia

DB Dorhjie, E Mukhina, A Kasyanenko, A Cheremisin - Energies, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Shale and tight oil reservoirs, with horizontal wells and hydraulic fractures, typically have a
recovery ratio of around 10%. The exploration of tight oil and shale in North America has …

[HTML][HTML] Using computational fluid dynamics to compute the pore-scale CO2-brine relative permeability

A Najafi, J Siavashi, M Ebadi, D Orlov, M Sharifi… - Fuel, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Global warming is considered as a severe growing crisis over the next years. Carbon
Capture and Storage (CCS) has been proposed as a feasible solution to stop the uprising …

Lift the veil of secrecy in sub-resolved pores by Xe-enhanced computed tomography

M Ebadi, D Orlov, V Alekseev, A Burukhin, V Krutko… - Fuel, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The efficient development of tight hydrocarbon resources based on the proper
understanding of rock properties can be underlined as a game-changing scenario of the …

Generative adversarial networks for reconstruction of three-dimensional porous media from two-dimensional slices

D Volkhonskiy, E Muravleva, O Sudakov, D Orlov… - Physical Review E, 2022‏ - APS
In many branches of earth sciences, the problem of rock study on the microlevel arises.
However, a significant number of representative samples is not always feasible. Thus the …

Pore-scale investigation of low-salinity water flooding in a heterogeneous-wet porous medium

M Malakoutikhah, J Siavashi, J Fahimpour, M Sharifi - Heliyon, 2024‏ - cell.com
Abstract Low-Salinity Water Flooding (LSWF) is a technique aimed at modifying the
interactions between rock and fluids particularly altering wettability and reducing interfacial …

Upscaling permeability anisotropy in digital sandstones using convolutional neural networks

A Najafi, J Siavashi, M Ebadi, M Sharifi… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Pore-scale modelling and implementation of micro x-ray Computed Tomography (μxCT)
images have become a reliable method to predict the petrophysical properties of rocks …

[HTML][HTML] Bridging the gap: Connecting pore-scale and continuum-scale simulations for immiscible multiphase flow in porous media

M Ebadi, J McClure, P Mostaghimi, RT Armstrong - Physics of Fluids, 2024‏ - pubs.aip.org
This study aims to bridge length scales in immiscible multiphase flow simulation by
connecting two published governing equations at the pore-scale and continuum-scale …

Lithofacies and diagenetic controls on tight silty and sandy Upper Triassic reservoirs of the Heshui Oil Field (Ordos Basin, North China)

C Hu, C Han, J Tian, Z Fu, J Ma… - SPE Reservoir Evaluation …, 2023‏ - onepetro.org
Tight oil, present in reservoirs of low porosity and permeability, can be regarded as a kind of
unconventional resource. The tightening process in this kind of reservoir is controlled by the …

[HTML][HTML] Pore Structure and Permeability of Tight-Pore Sandstones: Quantitative Test of the Lattice–Boltzmann Method

A Olhin, A Vishnyakov - Applied Sciences, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
This paper presents a characterization of the pore structure of tight-pore sandstones of the
Achimov suite and examines the application of Lattice–Boltzmann method (LBM) …

Reconstruction of 3d porous media from 2d slices

D Volkhonskiy, E Muravleva, O Sudakov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019‏ - arxiv.org
In many branches of earth sciences, the problem of rock study on the micro-level arises.
However, a significant number of representative samples is not always feasible. Thus the …