Nanofluids show potential use in applications related to upstream oil and gas industry to improve the performance of several processes such as exploration, drilling and completion, production and enhanced oil recovery operations.
"New and advanced exploration, well drilling and completion technologies are allowing us increasingly better access to domestic gas resources — especially 'unconventional' gas — which, not that long ago, were considered impractical or uneconomical to pursue," said John B. Curtis, a geology professor at the Colorado School of Mines and the report's principal author.
Areas such as geological assessment, geophysical exploration, reservoir drilling and completion, mechanisms of development and economic evaluation of unconventional oil and gas have seen remarkable progress.
Solid mechanics is used broadly across all branches of the engineering science, including many applications in as oil and gas exploration, drilling, completion, and production.
During this time, developments in exploration, drilling, completions, and stimulation have led to what is now called the shale revolution.
Echoing breakthroughs in deep well drilling and completion techniques, a succession of major breakthroughs have been made in deep hydrocarbon reservoir exploration (Dyman et al. 2002).
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Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on completion of journals, participation in class discussion, completion of poster, and completion of essay.
