Many reservoirs on discovery have weak primary drive mechanisms an thus, are augmented with either water injection or gas injection for pressure maintenance to improve recovery. Unfortunately, using either water or gas injection has proven not to be sufficient to reduce the resid...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2025/v27i41480
This paper provides a holistic view of the development and progression of multiphase gas-liquid annular flow in gas wells. With the help of a momentum balance, the stability of a fully developed annular flow is defined. The Euler-Euler model was used to model the multiphase flow...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2024/v16i5348
Produced water is water trapped in underground formations that is brought to the surface along with oil or gas. It is by far the largest volume by-product or waste stream associated with oil and gas production especially in brown fields. Management of produced water present chall...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2021/v21i917488
Desalting is an essential process in the oil industry to remove salts from crude oil. These salts, which include fine saline water droplets and salt crystals, can have a significant impact on the crude refining process. If left untreated, they can foul heat exchangers, block pipe...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2024/v16i4347
Sand production in oil wells is a significant challenge that negatively impacts productivity and compromise equipment integrity. This study explores the application of Optimized Support Vector Machine (SVM) binary classification algorithm to predict the onset of sand production...
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Research Article10.9734/jerr/2024/v26i41123
With growing awareness of the environmental impact of some conventional production chemicals and concerns about the depletion of non-renewable natural resources, increased efforts are being made to use renewable and non-toxic materials in the oilfield. In this study, a potential...
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Research Article10.9734/jenrr/2021/v9i330234