Category: TUALP Alumni Abstracts

Rakhymzhan Abdikadyrov

ABSTRACT  Rakhymzhan Abdikadyrov (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Plunger Lift Design, Simulation, and Optimization.  Plunger lift is a method used to optimize the production of gas or high gas-liquid ratio (GLR) wells with minimal investment. Many companies are using the plunger lift method to produce gas more economically and efficiently. Nowadays, software programs are…Continue Reading Rakhymzhan Abdikadyrov

Tanmay Sanjiv Tatu

   Tanmay Sanjiv Tatu (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Experiments and CFD simulations of sand erosion and impact on performance of Electrical Submersible Pump (ESP)                                               Conclusions and Recommendations  Artificial lifting is the process of providing external energy to producing wells when the natural drive of the reservoir is insufficient to produce fluids by…Continue Reading Tanmay Sanjiv Tatu

Sai Praveen Adiraju

Sai Praveen Adiraju  (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Artificial Lift Applications to Unconventional Reservoirs  Conclusions  Unconventional reservoirs are hydrocarbon-bearing formations with low permeability and porosity consisting of complex geological formations. Hydrocarbons in these formations were formed within the rock and never migrated, whereas conventional reservoirs have porous rock formation that contains hydrocarbons that have…Continue Reading Sai Praveen Adiraju

Syed Umair Hasan

Syed Umair Hasan (Masters of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Conclusions and Recommendations  The Y-tool ESP system, a dual ESP configuration, represents a more recent approach adopted in the industry as an alternative to the single ESP system. It finds application in wells with closely spaced layers, where two ESPs work in tandem to achieve the…Continue Reading Syed Umair Hasan

Nursultan Bakyt

Nursultan Bakyt (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Modeling Sand Transportation in Wells under Different Multiphase Flow Conditions  Conclusions and recommendations  Sand particles can be produced from the reservoirs along with oil, water, and gas in the petroleum industry. Particles can cause serious flow assurance issues, blocking a fluid path and causing fluctuations in oil…Continue Reading Nursultan Bakyt

Zimo Lin

           Zimo Lin (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Experiments, CFD Simulation and Modeling of Fluid Viscosity Effect in Electrical Pump                 Conclusions and Recommendations  A 12-stage mixed type electrical submersible pump (ESP), referred to as MTESP, was tested with single-phase water and industrial lubricate oil in a 2-inch closed flow loop. Experiments with different rotational…Continue Reading Zimo Lin

Muhammad Ridlah

Muhammad R. Ridlah (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Study of Oil/Water Emulsion in Electric Submersible Pump — Emulsion Rheology and Its Effect on Pump Boosting Pressure  Conclusions and Recommendations  Electric Submersible Pump (ESP) operation may run under up-thrust or down-thrust conditions in case of inaccurate model design thus shortening the ESP run life. The…Continue Reading Muhammad Ridlah

Jianlin Peng

Jianlin Peng (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Experiments and Modeling of ESP Performance with Viscous Oils and Oil-Water Emulsions  Conclusions and Recommendations  A General Electric (GE) TE-2700 14-stage radial type electrical submersible pump (ESP)was tested with a 3-inch closed flow loop under different viscous oil flow conditions. A pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger was used to…Continue Reading Jianlin Peng

Qingqi Zhao

Qingqi Zhao (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Transient Modeling of Plunger Lift for Gas Well Liquid Unloading  Conclusions and Recommendations  A natural gas production well is commonly accompanied by liquid condensate. As gas wells mature, production rate and bottom-hole pressure decrease, resulting in liquid loading since the gas cannot carry the liquids to the…Continue Reading Qingqi Zhao

Haiwen Zhu (Ph.D)

Haiwen Zhu (Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering)  Experiments, CFD Simulation and Modeling of Sand Wear and Performance Degradation in ESPs  Conclusions and Recommendations  A closed-loop experimental facility was designed and constructed to study the sand erosion process in a mixed type ESP, which is referred as MTESP in this dissertation. Four sets of experiments…Continue Reading Haiwen Zhu (Ph.D)

Hattan Banjar (Ph.D)

Hattan M. Banjar (Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering)  Experiments, CFD Simulation and Modeling of Oil Viscosity and Emulsion Effects on ESP Performance  Conclusions and Recommendations  Oil-water emulsion effects on a seven-stage electric submersible pump (ESP) performance is studied experimentally and numerically with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation. A mechanistic model for ESP head prediction…Continue Reading Hattan Banjar (Ph.D)

Fahad A. Almudairis (Ph.D)

Fahad B. A. Almudairis (Doctor of Philosophy in Petroleum Engineering)  Unified Transient Model for Gas-Oil-Water Flow in Wells and Pipelines  Conclusions and Recommendations  Many transient phenomena are encountered in the oil industry during daily operations. In a production system, transient multiphase flow can be initiated from production rate change, sudden perturbation of steady-state flow, or…Continue Reading Fahad A. Almudairis (Ph.D)

Jiecheng Zhang (M.Sc.)

Jiecheng Zhang (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Experiments, CFD Simulation and Modeling of ESP Performance under Viscous Fluid Flow Conditions  Conclusions and Recommendations  A 3-inch vertical closed liquid flow loop is built to test a 14-stage radial type electrical submersible pump (ESP) under viscous fluid flow conditions. A pipe-in-pipe heat exchanger is constructed to…Continue Reading Jiecheng Zhang (M.Sc.)

Weiqi Fu (M.Sc.)

Weiqi Fu (Master of Science in Petroleum Engineering)  Gas Well Liquid Loading Onset and Plunger Lift Modelling  Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations  Based on Zhang et al. (2003) unified model, liquid loading behavior in gas wells is studied in this thesis. The predictions of liquid loading are analyzed for different well inclinations including 900, 75 0…Continue Reading Weiqi Fu (M.Sc.)