The ECR-Related Publications of Our Group

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Ph.D. and Master Theses

  1. Amitabh Garg, Imbibition Assisted Recovery of Hydrocarbons/NAPLs from Naturally Fractured Reservoirs, Ph.D. Thesis, Engineering - Materials Science and Mineral Engineering, U.C. Berkeley, 1998. Committee in charge: Professors T. W. Patzek - Chair, C. J. Radke and L .M. Castanier (Stanford).
     
  1. Ahmed Al-Futaisi, Ph.D. Thesis, Physically-Based Quasi-Static Pore Network Simulator of Drainage and Imbibition in Two and Three-Phase flow of immiscible Fluids, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, U. C. Berkeley, T. W. Patzek - Chair, N. Sitar, J. Hunt, November 2002.
     
  1. Ruben Juanes, Ph.D. Thesis, Mathematical and numerical modeling of multiphase flow in porous media, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, U. C. Berkeley, Committee in Charge: T. W. Patzek - Chair, March 2003.
     
  2. Divesh Bhatt, Ph.D. Thesis, Molecular Simulations of Disjoining Pressures and Surface Tensions of Free Liquid Films, Committee in Charge: C. J. Radke and J. S. Newman, Co-Chairs, and T. W. Patzek, June 2004.

     
  3. Jonas Kristiansen, The Universal Scaling of Conductance in Laminar Film Flow of Wetting Liquid along the Corners of an Angular Pore, M.S. Thesis, The University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Committee in charge: Professor T. W. Patzek – Chair, U.C. Berkeley, Prof. E. L. Stenby, Technical University of Denmark, November 1999.
     
  4. Edward K. Yeh, Equilibrium Configurations of Liquid Droplets on Solid Surfaces under the Influence of Thin-Film Forces, M. S. Thesis, Chemical Engineering Department, U. C. Berkeley, 1998. Committee in charge: Professors J. S. Newman and C. J. Radke - Co-Chairs, and T. W. Patzek.
     
  5. Guodong Jin, Numerical Simulation of Micromechanical Damage in Soft Rocks, Plan I Master Thesis, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, U. C. Berkeley, 2002, T. W. Patzek, Chair, N. Sitar, and S. Glaser.
     
  6. Wouter van Amstel, A Non-Volumetric Description of Reservoir Rock Using Skeleton Graph Analysis, Plan II Engineering Report, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, U. C. Berkeley, 2002, T. W. Patzek, Chair, G. A. Cooper, and S. Glaser.
     
  7. Elizabeth Duff, Plan I, Master Thesis Title: Reconstructing Three-Dimensional Rocks from Thin Sections, Plan I Master Thesis, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, U. C. Berkeley, 2003, T. W. Patzek, Chair, H. F. Morrison, and N. Sitar.

 

Journal Papers

  1. Patzek, T. W., Silin, D. B., “Shape Factor and Hydraulic Conductance in Noncircular Capillaries: I. One-Phase Creeping Flow,” J. Colloid and Interface Sci., 236 295-304 April 2001.
  2. Patzek, T .W., Kristensen, J. G., “Shape Factor and Hydraulic Conductance in Noncircular Capillaries: II. Two-Phase Creeping Flow,” J. Colloid and Interface Sci., 236 305-317 April 2001.
  3. Patzek, T. W., "Verification of a Complete Pore Network Model of Drainage and Imbibition," SPE 71310, SPEJ, 6 2 144-156, June 2001.
  4. Al-Futaisi, A. and Patzek, T. W., “Impact of Wettability on Two-Phase Flow Characteristics of Sedimentary Rocks: A Quasi-Static Model,” Water Resources Research J., 39 2 1042-1055, 2003.
  5. Al-Futaisi, A. and Patzek, T. W., “Extension of the Hoshen-Kopelman Algorithm to a Non-lattice Environment,” Physica A, 321 3-4 665-678, 2003.
  6. Barenblatt, G. I., Silin, D. B., and Patzek, T. W., “The Mathematical Model of Non-Equilibrium Effects in Water-Oil Displacement,” SPEJ, 8 4 409-416, December 2003.
  7. Al-Futaisi, A. and Patzek, T. W., “Three-Phase Hydraulic Conductance in Angular Capillaries,” SPEJ, 8 3 252-261, September 2003.
  8. Silin, D. B. and Patzek, T. W., “On the Barenblatt model of non-equilibrium imbibition,” Transport in Porous Media, 54 297-322, 2004.
  9. Juanes, R. and Patzek, T. W., “Analytical solution to the Riemann problem of three-phase flow in porous media,” Transport in Porous Media, 55 1 47-70, 2004.
  10. Juanes, R. and Patzek, T. W., “Relative permeabilities for strictly hyperbolic models of three-phase flow in porous media,” Transport in Porous Media, 57 125-152, 2004.
  11. Al-Futaisi, A. and Patzek, T. W., “Impact of Oil-Water Drainage and Imbibition on Subsequent Gas Injection: A Three-Phase Pore Network Model,” accepted by Physical Review Letters E, March 2003.
  12. Al-Futaisi, A. and Patzek, T. W., “Secondary Imbibition in NAPL-invaded Mixed-Wet Sediments,” Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, 74 1-4 p61-81, 2004.
  13. Juanes, R. A. and Patzek, T. W., “Three-phase displacement theory: An improved description of relative permeabilities,” SPEJ, 9 3 302-313, September 2004.
  14. Jin, G., Patzek T. W., and Silin, D. B., “Reconstruction of sedimentary rock based on mechanical properties,” accepted by Phys. Rev. E., November 2004.
  15. Silin, D. B., Jin, G., and Patzek, T. W., “Robust determination of the pore-space morphology in sedimentary rocks,” Journal of Petroleum Technology, 69-70, May 2004.

 

Conference papers 

  1. Patzek, T. W., Silin, D. B., and Barenblatt, G. I., “Impact of Rock Micro- and Macrostructure on the Behavior of Two-phase Flow,” Invited Paper, Presented at the 22nd Annual International Energy Agency Workshop and Symposium, Vienna, Austria, September 10-12, 2001.
  2. Al-Futaisi, A. and Patzek, T. W., Paper SPE 75193: “Three-Phase Hydraulic Conductance in Angular Capillaries,” Proceedings of the SPE/DOE 13th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK, 13-17 April, 2002.
  3. Barenblatt, G. I., Silin, D. B., and Patzek, T. W., Paper SPE 75169: “The Mathematical Model of Non-Equilibrium Effects in Water-Oil Displacement,” Proceedings of the SPE/DOE 13th Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK, 13-17 April, 2002.
  4. Juanes, R. A. and Patzek, T. W., Paper SPE 77539: “Three-phase displacement theory: An improved description of relative permeabilities,” Proceedings of the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, TX, Sept 29 –Oct 2, 2002.
  5. Juanes, R., Patzek, T. W., Paper SPE 83445: “Relative Permeabilities in Three-Phase Co-current Displacements with Gravity,” SPE Western Regional/AAPG Pacific Section Joint Meeting, Long Beach, California, U.S.A, 19-24 May 2003.
  6. Guodong, J., Patzek, T. W., and Silin, D. B, Paper SPE 83687: “Physics-based Reconstruction of Sedimentary Rocks,” SPE Western Regional/AAPG Pacific Section Joint Meeting, Long Beach, California, U.S.A, 19-24 May 2003.
  7. Silin, D. B, Guodong, J., and Patzek, T. W., SPE 84296: “Robust Determination of the Pore Space Morphology in Sedimentary Rocks,” Prepared for presentation at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., 5-8 October 2003.
  8. Guodong, J., Patzek, T. W., and Silin, D. B, Paper SPE 90084: “Direct Prediction of the Absolute Permeability of Unconsolidated and Consolidated Reservoir Rock,” SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., 26–29 September 2004.

ECR-Related DOE Reports and Software

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Records 1 to 10 of 25 Title Report Date Report Number
1 Nanoscale Pore Imaging and Pore Scale Fluid Flow Modeling in Chalk 08/19/2004 LBNL-56266
2 Direct prediction of the absolute permeability of unconsolidated and consolidated reservoir rock 05/28/2004 LBNL-55339
3 Dynamic reconstruction of sedimentary rock and simulation of its mechanical properties 05/04/2004 LBNL-55038
4 On Damage Propagation in a Soft Low-Permeability Formation 11/18/2003 LBNL-55993
5 Robust Determination of the Pore Space Morphology in Sedimentary Rocks 06/02/2003 LBNL-52942
6 Physics-based reconstruction of sedimentary rocks 03/15/2003 LBNL-52966
7 An object-oriented cluster search algorithm 01/24/2003 LBNL-51599
8 On the Barenblatt model of spontaneous countercurrent imbibition 08/20/2002 LBNL-51373
9 The mathematical model of non-equilibrium effects in water-oil displacement 01/23/2002 LBNL-49484
10 Impact of rock micro- and macrostructure on the behavior of large waterfloods 08/13/2001 LBNL-48859

 

 

 

 
Depositional model
Rock mechanics
Robust description of pore space
Rock/fluid wettability
Direct percolation on images
Absolute perm prediction
Relative perm prediction
Capillary pressure prediction
ALS: Micro tomography
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ALS: X-Ray backscattering
Petrophysics
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