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A New Chemical Inhibitor to Mitigate Swelling of Sodium and Calcium Bentonite during Drilling Process

Clay swelling during drilling operations is one of the challenges faced in the oil industry. While both oil-based and syntheticbased muds have been successful at reducing clay swe…

Assessment of Potential Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Storage Capacity: An Examination in Ship Shoal, Gulf of Mexico

The surge in greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), has necessitated the exploration of stable solutions for atmospheric CO2 reduction. CO2 sequestration in …

New Relative Permeability Models for North American Sandstone Utilizing Artificial Neural Networks

Mathematical models and machine learning applications such as Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have been adopted in hydrocarbon exploration, drilling, production, and reservoir en…

Development of a New Correlation for Predicting Initial Water Saturation in Carbonate Reservoirs

The Middle East, rich in oil and gas within carbonate rocks, accounts for a significant portion of global reserves, drawing extensive exploration by major oil firms. Unlike Southea…

Comparative Study of CO2 Storage Capacity Estimation in Depleted Oil & Gas Reservoir: A Case Study in Vermillion Basin Gulf of Mexico

CO2 emissions rates have seen an exponential growth from the 19th century up till date, if no drastic measures and plans are implemented to prevent this exponential growth the con…