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Ultra-Deepwater Dry Tree System for Drilling and Production
FloaTEC feasibility engineering studies were performed on their proprietary E-Semi and Truss Semi deepwater structure designs. These studies are related to enabling dry tree... -
Subsea Systems Engineering Integration
GE Research is developing a process simulator capable of modeling a complete subsea production system. This simulator may be used to model the facility performance of the field... -
Ultra-High Conductivity Umbilicals
The goal of this project is to develop an ultra-high conductivity power cable suitable for use in undersea umbilicals. The overall objective is to design, build, and test an... -
Biogeochemical Factors Enhancing Microbially Generated Methane in Coalbeds
The project objective was to investigate microbial agents and their ability to convert coal into methane under in-situ conditions. The types of microbes, conversion rates and... -
Reactive Carbonate Reservoirs Final Report
The Madison Formation has been proposed as a major target for carbon sequestration. This extensive carbonate formation is present in several western states. In southwestern... -
Design Investigation of Extreme High Pressure, High Temperature, (XHPHT), Sub...
Regulations require the deployment of a SCSSV in Offshore wells. Current SCSSV designs are not available for XHPHT conditions. Rice University graduate students have been... -
Ultra-Deepwater Resources to Reserves Development and Acceleration
The objective of the project is to facilitate the development of ultra-deepwater resources by developing techniques to assess the connectivity characteristics of deepwater... -
Conductivity Of Complex Fracturing In Unconventional Shale Reservoirs
The objective of the proposed research was to conduct a systematic experimental study of fracture conductivity in shale oil and gas formations. The study focused on the... -
Characterizing Stimulation Domains, for Improved Well Completions in Gas Shal...
The objective of the project was to create an innovative user-friendly software prototype (called DomAnal) that can be used by operators to characterize flow properties of... -
Evaluation of Fracture Systems and Stress Fields Within the Marcellus Shale a...
The objective of the project is to use rock physics in combination with new seismic data-acquisition technologies based on cableless boxes and accelerated-weight and vector... -
White Paper - Recommendations to Address Flaring Issues, Solutions and Techno...
An evergreen white paper published by our Environmentally Friendly Drilling Systems (EFD) Program summarizing technologies and issues related to mitigating flaring. -
Synthesis and characterization of thallium-salen derivatives for use as under...
Synthesis of a novel thallium-salen fluorescent compound with potential use as a tracer for subsurface fluid flow. -
National Mafic Rock Atlas Report
Regionally extensive mafic rock formations, or flood basalts, are a distinguishing feature of the geology of the Pacific Northwest and the Big Sky Carbon Sequestration... -
Low Cost Flexible Production System for Remote Ultra-Deepwater Gulf of Mexico...
The objective of this project was to study the feasibility of a circular shaped floating platform unit as compared to two current FPU concepts, semi-sub, and spars. The floater... -
Effect of water on critical and subcritical fracture properties of Woodford s...
Chen, X., Eichhubl, P., Olson, J. E., 2017, Effect of water on critical and subcritical fracture properties of Woodford shale, Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v.... -
Autonomous Inspection of Subsea Facilities Fact Sheet
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are becoming more capable and reliable. Implementation of AUV-based IRM in ultra-deepwater fields will provide game-changing improvements... -
Instrumented BOP Ram: Drill Collar/ Tool Joint Locator
Design and development of an instrument BOP ram prototype and laboratory testing. The technology development will be conducted in five stage gates within two phases: A system...