Aiming to find the most suitable development schemes of conventional and unconventional
reservoirs for maximum energy supply or economic benefits, reservoir production …

Well placement optimization is one of the major challenging factors in the field development
process of oil and gas industry. The objective function of well placement optimization is …

Abstract The Qusaiba Shale is a proven source rock for the Palaeozoic petroleum system of
the middle east and it is targeted as a potential source of unconventional shale gas potential …

Low-salinity waterflooding (LSWF) has, in the past decade, attained a lot of attention to
enhance oil recovery. In LSWF, diluted water is injected into an oil reservoir to improve oil …

Brittleness index (BI) of rocks can help target the most suitable formation for the hydraulic
fracturing stimulation in the shale reservoirs. The two most widely used approaches in the …

Much work has been performed on the optimal well placement/control problem, including
some investigations on optimizing well types (injector or producer) and/or drilling order …

The oil and gas industry has been an integral and fundamental sector of the Russian
economy for the past few years. The main problems of this industry have traditionally been …

A robust workflow for optimizing the placement of multiple deviated wells subject to
challenging geometric constraints is presented and applied. The workflow entails the use of …

Robust identification of the optimal well count and corresponding well locations/trajectories
under the influence of subsurface uncertainty is a very challenging yet crucial element of …

At the present stage, most oil and gas condensate fields in the southern part of the East
Siberian oil and gas province are characterized by an increasing proportion of difficult oil …