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<span style="line-height:200%; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW DIAGNOSTIC TOOL BY WAVELET TRANSFORM & APPLICATIONS TO STIMULATION AND WATERFLOODING OPERATIONS</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Date: Friday, July 26, 2019</span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Location: Technology Bridge</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Building 9 Room<b> 124</b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Committee Chair:<span style="color:#1F497D"> </span>
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> Prof. Mohamed Y. Soliman<b><span style="color:#1F497D"></span></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Committee Members:</span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Birol Dindoruk<b></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Kyung Jae Lee</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Ahmad Sakhaee-Pour</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Guan Qin</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mr. Shah Kabir</span></p>
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Due to the shift from conventional reservoirs towards unconventional, ultra-low permeability reservoirs in the last decade, multistage hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells and Diagnostic Fracture Injection Test (DFIT) has become one of the dominant and
economically practical stimulation techniques and pressure transient tests, respectively. It is crucial to analyze and interpret both fracturing and DFIT data correctly to obtain essential features of the fracture and reservoir in order to have successful
stimulation designs. In addition, it is also crucial to understand interwell connectivity (IWC) for improving the performance of any secondary flooding in conventional reservoirs.</p>
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This research presents a new diagnostic tool/methodology developed by wavelet transform and its applications to hydraulic fracturing, diagnostic testing in unconventional reservoirs and waterflooding operations in conventional reservoirs. This new diagnostic
tool provides a better understanding of fracture behavior during both injection and fall-off periods mainly in hydraulic fracturing operations and fracture diagnostic injection tests, respectively. Furthermore, the flexibility of this methodology allows for
implementation to conventional reservoirs to determine interwell connectivity between injection and production wells.</p>
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The objective of this research is to develop a new technology that is applicable for both conventional and unconventional reservoirs to decrease uncertainty not only in commonly used conventional fracture diagnostic techniques such as G-function, log-log analysis,
square-root-time, cross-correlation to identify fracture and reservoir parameters, but also level of connectivity in conventional reservoirs to ultimately improve the overall efficiency of hydraulic fracturing designs and enhanced oil recovery.</p>
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Unlike other conventional techniques, this new methodology treats hydraulic fracturing pressure, DFIT fall-off pressure and injection/production rates as non-stationary signals and extracts relevant information in wavelet/scale domain instead of time domain.</p>
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