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Abstract SK-2 Well is the main hole of China Continental Scientific Drilling Project in Songliao Basin, which was designed to penetrate through Cretaceous strata and recover a nearly complete Cretaceous terrestrial sedimentary record. Continuous coring was conducted from 2840m to 4542.24m in 311.2mm ...
Abstract This research paper discusses about the evaluation of carboxymethyl starch-grafted-polyacrylamidecoplymer as a potential drilling mud additive for the drilling of reactive shale formations. The graft copolymer was synthesized via carboxymethylation and free polymerization technique and it ...
Abstract We present first-time ever implementation of an innovative biomonitoring technology (High-Frequency Non-Invasive Valvometry) on an offshore oil producing platform located in the Arabian Gulf (TOTAL Abu Al Bukhoosh - UAE). This technology is unique; it is a tool allowing continuous in situ ...
Abstract A great number of Middle East fields have too harsh reservoir conditions (high temperature, high salinity) for conventional EOR polymers used as mobility control agents. Traditional synthetic polymers such as partially hydrolyzed polyacrylamide (HPAM) are not thermally stable. At temperatures ...
AbstractObjective/ Scope A commitment to continuous improvement lies at the heart of Dolphin Energy's business and the company places much responsibility on its employees to maintain this commitment at all times. The launch of the company's cost optimization program, The CORE Project (TCP), in February ...
Abstract As petroleum projects becomes more international, there is more need for the petroleum professional to communicate across cultural boundaries. Intercultural competency on the part of the petroleum professional begins with an awareness of three types of cultures at work in the workplace: national, ...
Abstract High pH saturated brine can cause formation damage to sandstone formation following well completion operations. Hence, it becomes vital to evaluate the potential effectiveness of completion fluids prior to the actual cost and risk of implementation. Permeability reduction of 12-31 % was observed ...
Abstract This SPE paper describes ZADCO's reasoning foropting to utilisethe TCC RotoMill® as the proprietary technology at the core of ESNAAD-TWMA's integrated drilling waste management services on the four UZ750k artificial islands in Abu Dhabi. It outlinesthe basis for this conclusion after examining ...
The objective of this research was to study the formation of water-in-oil microdispersions due to crude oil-brine interactions as a novel mechanism that improves oil recovery with low salinity waterflooding in carbonate formations. This novel interpretation was studied by intergrating petrographic and ...
Many deepwater gas fields remain stranded in the current economic environment. Conventional surface solutions result in large facilities that are heavy and costly. Subsea solutions are challenged when confronted with long distance tie-backs. While the FLNG option initially looked promising, high CAPEX ...
ABSTRACT Fish cages in the open sea are exposed to cycle wave loads during their service life, and thus the fatigue reliability of mooring chains should be re-assessed to ensure the safety status. A numerical model was adopted to calculate the tension force of mooring chains. A nonlinear contact finite ...
Controlling and quantifying the presence of Posidonia Oceanica (P.O.) in the Mediterranean sea is crucial for the conservation of these endemic ecosystems and to underscore the negative impact of many anthropogenic activities. These activities, which include uncontrolled leisure anchoring or illegal ...
Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is an emerging technology with some unique characteristics that makes it different from other ad-hoc networks. VANETs could be a key networking technology of the future vehicle communications, where the communication is possible between V2V, V2I and other hybrid architectures. ...
Ethnic groups are universal and unique to human societies. Such groups sometimes have norms of behavior that are adaptively linked to their social and ecological circumstances, and ethnic boundaries may function to protect that variation from erosion by interethnic interaction. However, such interaction ...
The preen gland produces oily secretion, which smeared onto a bird’s plumage improves its maintenance. The main components of the secretion are waxes, and its composition often changes during the year. The aim of this study was to determine the differences in the chemical composition of preen waxes ...
Germ line segregation can occur during embryogenesis or after embryogenesis completion, with multipotent cells able to give rise to both germ and somatic cells in the developing juvenile or even in adulthood. These undifferentiated cells, in some animals, are self-renewing stem cells. In all these cell ...
Philosophy of technology (phil-tech), relatively new to the North American philosophical scene in the seventies, emerged from its largely European roots under a somewhat dark cloud of technophobic colors. The godfathers, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Ellul, and Herbert Marcuse as the most popular, portrayed ...
Hunting and gathering is, evolutionarily, the defining subsistence strategy of our species. Studying how children learn foraging skills can, therefore, provide us with key data to test theories about the evolution of human life history, cognition, and social behavior. Modern foragers, with their vast ...
Folding of mammalian genomes into spatial domains is critical for gene regulation. The insulator protein CTCF and cohesin control domain location by folding domains into loop structures, which are widely thought to be stable. Combining genomic and biochemical approaches we show that CTCF and cohesin ...
There is a tension between the conception of cognition as a central nervous system (CNS) process and a view of cognition as extending towards the body or the contiguous environment. The centralised conception requires large or complex nervous systems to cope with complex environments. Conversely, the ...