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Industrial Compositional Streamline Simulation for Efficient and Accurate Prediction of Gas Injection and WAG Processes

The goal of this project is to show that compositional streamline simulation (CSLS) has very high potential for the simulation of (near) miscible gas injection processes. In this project, researchers are extending and improving a novel and fully adaptive compositional streamline simulator CSLS to three-phase flows. The goal is to increase its computational efficiency so that it will be suitable for use in industry and laboratories for the study of realistic reservoir and production scenarios for a wide variety of gas injection and CO2 sequestration projects. The simulator development is supported by an experimental program designed to improve understanding of three-phase flows, which could lead to improved mathematical models for three-phase relative permeability functions.

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Appendix F Wild Rose Simulation

Located in Wyoming, the Wild Rose area (18T 94 R) is operated by BP America. Initial production began in 1975, and as of 2004 the field contained 273 active wells, with cumulative production of 34 bcf. Production from this massively stacked tight sand play (with intermingled coal) is derived primarily from the Mesaverde reservoir, situated at an average depth of 9,800 feet over this study area. Of prominent interest to the operator is the determination of a set of rational development guidelines to maximize the gas rates and minimize the produced water during continued development.

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Improvement Of Carbon Dioxide Sweep Efficiency By Utilization Of Microbial Permeability Profile Modification To Reduce The Amount Of Oil Bypassed During Carbon Dioxide Flood

The objective of this project is to significantly improve oil recovery at Eucutta Field, Wayne County, Mississippi and Little Creek Field, Lincoln and Pike counties, Mississippi by combining an established procedure, carbon dioxide water-after-gas (WAG) flood, with a new technology, microbial permeability profile modification (MPPM), developed at Mississippi State University (MSU) under prior DOE contract. Simply stated, the MPPM technology utilizes environmentally friendly nutrient solutions to simulate the growth of the indigenous microflora in the most permeable zones of the reservoir, thereby forcing water or carbon dioxide to divert to less permeable, previously unswept zones of the reservoir.

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Measuring and Interpreting Seismic Attenuation

The project goals are to: -Perform, for the first time, laboratory measurements of the seismic velocities and attenuation across the entire seismic band of frequencies on rocks that have been well characterized (work to be performed by CSM). - Provide, for the first time, detailed explanations and models (both analytical and numerical) for the lab measurements that can be used to relate the material properties of interest to the oil industry to the seismic measures (work to be performed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL). -Invert field data to obtain frequency-dependent attenuation and dispersion properties and relate such field measurements to the underlying rock properties of interest (work to be performed by the University of California at Berkeley and LBNL).

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Measuring and Interpreting Seismic Attenuation

The project goals are to: -Perform, for the first time, laboratory measurements of the seismic velocities and attenuation across the entire seismic band of frequencies on rocks that have been well characterized (work to be performed by CSM). - Provide, for the first time, detailed explanations and models (both analytical and numerical) for the lab measurements that can be used to relate the material properties of interest to the oil industry to the seismic measures (work to be performed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL). -Invert field data to obtain frequency dependent attenuation and dispersion properties and relate such field measurements to the underlying rock properties of interest (work to be performed by the University of California at Berkeley and LBNL).

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IMAGING RESERVOIR QUALITY: SEISMIC SIGNATURES OF GEOLOGIC PROCESSES

Project researchers demonstrated how carbonate cementation precipitated at the key sequence stratigraphic surfaces, such as incision and flooding surfaces, impacts seismic impedance. It was observed that carbonate-cemented sandstones are extremely heterogeneous in nature, even within a depth interval of ~60 meter in the project study area, offshore Equatorial Guinea, West Africa. Their grain-size, sorting, mineralogy, clay content, amount of cement and degree of leaching vary considerably. Two distinct impedance-porosity behaviors were identified. Carbonate-cemented  sandstones from the base of incisions are usually associated with lower shaliness, lower porosity and higher Pimpedance, while data from the top of flooding surfaces exhibit higher shaliness, higher porosity and lower P-impedance. One simple rock physics model that captures the observed impedance-porosity trend is the “stiff-sand model.” For this model, the high porosity end-member is unconsolidated sand whose initial porosity is a function of the deposited sorting and shaliness, while the low-porosity end-member is solid mineral. These two end points are joined using a Hashin-Shtrikman equation. A second modeling approach is to combine two models – the stiff-sand model that describes the elastic behavior of clay-free carbonated-cemented quartz and a soft-sediment model that describes the uncemented shales.

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e Improving Geologic and Engineering Models of Midcontinent Fracture and Karst-Modified Reservoirs Using New 3-D Seismic Attributes

Our project goal is to develop innovative seismic-based workflows for the incremental recovery of oil from karst-modified reservoirs within the onshore continental United States. Specific project objectives are: (1) to calibrate new multi-trace seismic attributes for improved imaging of karst-modified reservoirs, (2) to develop attribute-based, cost effective workflows to better characterize karst-modified carbonate reservoirs and fracture systems, and (3) to improve accuracy and predictiveness of resulting geomodels and reservoir simulations. In order to develop our workflows and validate our techniques, we have been conducting integrated studies, including reservoir characterization, geomodel building, and reservoir simulation, of three karst-modified reservoirs: the Permian San Andres in west Texas, the Mississippian Spergen in Colorado, and the Ordovician Arbuckle in Kansas

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Evaluation of Gas Reburning and Low Nox Burners on a Wall Fired Boiler

Title IV, Phase II of the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 specifies a NOx emissions limit of 0.46 lb/10^6 Btu for wall-fired boilers. It is expected that this limit will be lowered in the future. The test results show that burners alone will yield a NOx emission level of 0.46 lb/10^6 Btu. Although sufficient to meet the CAAA limit, CO control may not be satisfactory with certain LNBs unless low levels of GR are utilized. Also, any future more stringent limits will not be met with burners alone. For the Cherokee unit, it was demonstrated that GR could be an economic technology due to its low capital and operating cost (low levels of natural gas consumption). Based on the success of the project, the host utility has elected to purchase the GR-LNB equipment for future use.

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A Customizable Fuzzy Expert System for Regional and Local Play Analysis

The objective of this project is to create a user-definable and customizable fuzzy expert system tool to dramatically speed local and regional play analysis and reduce subsequent drilling risk. This general tool will not require significant knowledge of computer programming and will guide users through the process of building a successful expert system to evaluate plays from field to basin scale using public and/or private data and their own knowledge. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the tool, a secondary objective of analyzing the Pennsylvanian play of southeast New Mexico will be performed. Public data will be organized for analyzing this outstanding, bypassed-pay play, which will provide an example of the usage of the system while simultaneously providing a significant opportunity for identifying new reserves.

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Measurement and Interpretation of Seismic Attenuation for Hydrocarbon Exploration

This project was selected in response to solicitation DE-PS26-04NT15450-2A, Subsurface Imaging, with research specifically aimed at measuring and understanding the nature of seismic attenuation in sedimentary rocks relevant for hydrocarbon production. The goals of this project are to develop the understanding of seismic loss mechanisms, measure attenuation in the laboratory, extract time-lapse attenuation estimates from field data, and interpret the results in terms of pore fluid and reservoir changes.

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Advanced Reservoir Imaging Using Frequency-Dependent Seismic Attributes

The project goal is to develop seismic based technology that correlates and/or quantifies a reservoir's fluid-saturation properties and their spatial distribution to frequency- and angle-dependent reflectivity. The proposal involves theory and processing- algorithm development, numerical and physical modeling, laboratory experiments, and field verification using seismic, well-log, and engineering data. Extensions to wave-equation models with fluid-flow attenuation and target-oriented seismic processing are two major theoretical developments.

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High Efficiency Fossil Power Plants (HEFPP) Conceptualization Program

This report provides a description of the simulation model for the 20 MW high efficiency power plant system devised by Energy Research Corporation under US Department of Energy contract DE-AC26-98FT34164, High Efficiency Fossil Power Plants (HEFPP) Conceptual Program. The simulation model is based on an EXCEL 5 spread sheet and provided on a 3 1/2" disk.

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High Temperature Capacitor Development

The goal of this project is to design, develop and test a prototype for a new class of high-temperature high-voltage all-solid electrochemical-electrolytic capacitor for use in downhole electronics for deep drilling and logging applications. The capacitor to be developed will exhibit a low equivalent series resistance (ESR) and will be capable of operating at temperatures exceeding 400o F and pressures exceeding 20,000 psi; a goal is to extend the operating temperature to 450oF.

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Rheological Properties of Defense Waste Processing Facility Melter Feeds

This report summarizes the research carried out at the Hemispheric Center for Environmental Technology (HCET) at Florida International University for Fiscal Year (FY) 1996 under the project "Rheological Properties of Defense Waste Slurries." The objective of this project is to address the needs of the nuclear waste vitrification process. The focus of the research has been on experimental study and model development for control of the vitrification melter feed rheology. The refined and reliable experimental data on the rheological properties of melter feed obtained from this work can be used to enhance the current design base for melter feed mixing and transportation systems, to improve the process'performance, and to reduce vitrification costs.

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Zinc Ferrite Hydrogen Sulfide Absorbent

During last year, development and testing of high-temperature, coal-gas desulfurization sorbents for molten carbonate fuel cell application have been continued, with particular emphasis on a zinc ferrite sorbent which had previously demonstrated superior properties of high sulfur loading and regenerability. Laboratory-scale tests in the 2-inch diameter fixed-bed reactor have included absorption/regeneration cycles at various gas conditions of hydrogen sulfide and steam content, and space velocity. The data generated are being used to validate a computer simulation of a fixed-bed, high-temperature, desulfurization process. An attempt was made to improve the sorbent's sulfur removal ability by addition of a vanadium oxide. This was no successful and further thermodynamic analysis revealed an error in the NBS data employed in the original analysis. Zinc ferrite sorbents with a deficiency of zinc oxide were found to perform satisfactorily. In separate experiments by Research Triangle Institute, a simulated coal gas containing tars and hydrogen chloride in addition to hydrogen sulfide was passed through a fixed bed of zinc ferrite at 550, 650, and 750 degrees C. Phenol and toluene were deoxygenated and dealkylated, respectively, to benzene. Modest amounts of carbon were deposited in the sorbent. Significant amounts of hydrogen chloride were not absorbed. For comparison with zinc ferrite, an experimental zinc-oxide containing sorbent from Institute Francais du Petrole, designed for gas-turbine application, was also tested. The IFP sorbent, after regeneration, contained substantial amounts of sulfate which decomposed during subsequent absorption, liberating sulfur oxides. A larger skid-mounted, bench-scale, hot gas desulfurization unit has been constructed and installed in a side stream of the METC 24 t/d fixed-bed gasifier to acquire process data when operating with real coal gas. This unit will also be used to desulfurize gas from a METC 150 lb/hr fluid-bed gasifier.

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Advanced Reservoir Imaging Using Frequency-Dependent Seismic Attributes

The project goal is to develop seismic-based technology that correlates and/or quantifies a reservoir's fluid saturation properties and their spatial distribution to frequency- and angle-dependent reflectivity. The proposal involves theory and processing-algorithm development, numerical and physical modeling, laboratory experiments, and field verification using seismic, well-log, and engineering data. Extensions to wave-equation models with fluid flow attenuation and target-oriented seismic processing are two major theoretical developments.

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Contracts for Field Projects and Supporting Research on Enhanced Oil Recovery

The first objective is to compare the effectiveness of gels in fluid diversion with those of other types of processes. Several different types of fluid-diversion processes will be compared, including those using gels, foams, emulsions, and particulates. The ultimate goals of these comparisons are to (1) establish which of these processes are most effective in a given application and (2) determine whether aspects of one process can be combined with those of other processes to improve performance.

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Contracts for Field Projects and Supporting Research on Enhanced Oil Recovery

The overall objective of this project is to develop a very cost-effective method for formulating a successful surfactant-enhanced alkaline food by appropriately choosing mixed alkalis that form inexpensive buffers to obtain the desired pH (between 8.5 and 12.0) for ultimate spontaneous emulsification and ultralow interfacial tension. In addition, the novel concept of pH gradient design to optimize floodwater conditions will be tested.

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In Situ Permeable Barrier for BTEX Remediation

Methods of adding oxygen and nutrients to groundwater using low maintenance passive or semi-passive techniques will be developed. These techniques can be used to create in situ permeable reactors that enhance bioremediation of BTEX contaminated groundwater without bringing it to ground surface for treatment, i.e. the conventional pump-and-treat approach. The in situ treatment approach should have lower operating costs than conventional remediation systems. Aeration and formation fouling control methods will be evaluated using laboratory studies, and a pilot scale in situ permeable reactor system will be constructed in the field at a site with an existing BTEX plume. The field system will be operated to generate performance data. The data from lab column studies and the field pilot system will be used to improve the design of the in situ aerators/bioreactors and to validate computer models written to predict the field  performance of these systems.

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Decision Analysis Modeling for Application and Fielding Selection Applied to Concrete Decontamination Technologies

The purpose of this two-year investigation is to field test innovative technologies for coating and surface removal on concrete floors and compare the compiled data to baseline technologies, thereby ensuring that the safest and most cost-effective options are developed and subsequently used during the decontamination and decommissioning (D&D) of U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Management (DOE-EM) sites. Comprehensive and comparable data will be collected in the areas of health and safety, operations, and secondary waste management. The technologies tested will include DOE-EM funded technologies and commercial non-nuclear technologies that have the potential to meet the environmental restoration objectives.

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DEA-44M EXPLOITATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MANAGERS

This program has been developed in response to a need defined by 4,000 technical and operational staff attending the DEA-44 (Drilling Engineering Association) Advanced Exploitation Technology asset team cross-training program. A common response from this 5-day multidiscipline school is summarized as: "This program is great, but we can't convince our manager or alter hinder perspective." With the rapid evolution of novel exploitation technologies, many managers and team leaders have not been kept up-to-date with the capabilities, limitations, and appropriate application of these technologies. Thus, many applications have failed due inappropriate  management decisions.

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Reclamation of Acid, Toxic Coal Spoils Using Wet Flue Gas Desulfurization By-Product, Fly Ash and Sewage Sludge

The primary purpose of our project is to evaluate two wet FGD by-products for effects on vegetation establishment and surface and ground water quality on an acid minesoil. One by-product from the AAAAConesville, OH power plant (American Electric Power Service Corporation) contains primarily calcium sulfite and fly ash. The other by-product (Mg-gypsum FGD) from an experimental scrubber at the Zimmer power plant (Cincinnati Gas and Electric Company) is primarily gypsum with 4% magnesium hydroxide [Mg(OH)2]. These materials were compared with borrow soil and sewage sludge as minesoil amendments. Combinations of each FGD sludge with sewage sludge were also tested. This report summarizes two years of measurements of chemical composition of runoff water, ground water at two depths in the subsoil, soil chemical properties, elemental composition and yield of herbaceous ground cover, and elemental composition, survival and height of trees planted on plots treated with the various amendments. The borrow soil is the control for comparison with the other treatments.

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Fixed-Bed Gasification Research Using U.S. Coals, Volume 16, Gasification of 2-inch Minnesota Peat Sods

This report is the sixteenth volume in a series of reports describing the atmospheric pressure, fixed-bed gasification of U.S. coals. This specific test report describes the gasification of two-inch Minnesota peat sods, which began on June 24, 1985 and was completed on June 27, 1985.

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Fixed-Bed Gasification Research Using U.S. Coals, Volume 8, Gasification of River King Illinois No. 6 Bituminous Coal

This report is the eight volume in a series of reports describing the atmospheric pressure, fixed-bed gasification of U.S. coals. This specific report describes the gasification of River King Illinois No.6 bituminous coal. The period of gasification test was July 28 to August 19, 1983.

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Fixed-Bed Gasification Research Using U.S. Coals, Volume 9, Gasification of Elkhorn Bituminous Coal

This report is the ninth volume in a series of reports describing the atmospheric pressure, fixed-bed gasification of U.S. coals. This specific report describes the gasification of Elkhorn bituminous coal. The period of gasification test was September 13 to October 12, 1983.

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Fixed-Bed Gasification Research Using U.S. Coals, Volume 4, Gasification of Leucite Hills Subbituminous Coal

This report is the fourth volume in a series of reports describing the atmospheric pressure, fixed-bed gasification of U.S. coals. This specific report describes the gasification of Leucite Hills subbituminous coal from Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The period of the gasification test was April 11-30, 1983.

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Fixed-Bed Gasification Research Using U.S. Coals, Volume 5, Gasification of Stahlman Stoker Bituminous Coal

This report is the fifth volume in a series of reports describing the atmospheric pressure, fixed-bed gasification of U.S. coals. This specific report describes the gasification of Stahlman Stoker bituminous coal from Clarion county, PA. The period of the gasification test was April 30 to May 4, 1983.

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Fixed-Bed Gasification Research Using U.S. Coals, Volume 1, Program and Facility Description

This report is the first of several documents prepared by Black, Sivalls &Bryson, Incorporated describing the gasification test facility and test results. Specifically, Volume I provides a description of the test facility, test and operational procedures, data reduction/handling procedures, and overall program operational procedures. Subsequent volumes will report the gasification performance of specific coals gasified.

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FIXED-BED GASIFICATION RESEARCH USING U.S. COALS, VOLUME 1 PROGRAM AND FACILITY DESCRIPTION

This report is the initial volume in a series of reports describing the fixed-bed gasification of U.S.. coals at the Bureau of Mines, Twin Cities Research Center. A history of the program is given in Section 1 and a thorough description of the facility in Section 2. The operation of the facility is described in Section 3. Monitoring systems and procedures are described in Sections 4 and 5. Data reduction tools are outlined in Section 6. There is no executive summary or conclusions as this volume serves only to describe the research program. Subsequent volumes will detail each gasification test and other pertinent results of the gasification program.

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MINERALOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE GREEN RIVER FORMATION, COLORADO CORE HOLE NO.1, PICEANCE CREEK BASIN, COLORADO

Selected samples of the Green River Formation, Colorado Core Hole No.1, were analyzed to aid characterization and understanding of the genesis of the oil shales of the Piceance Creek Basin, Colorado. About 120, 2-4 inch samples from the Parachute Creek and Garden Gulch Members were analyzed for 18 major and minor elements, 12 selected trace elements and quantitative mineral content. About 70 samples were scanned, perpendicular to the bedding, by electron microprobe to determine semiquantitative elemental microstratigraphy of nine selected elements.

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Development of High Temperature Capacitor Technology and Manufacturing Capability

The goal of this project is to design and carry out controlled experiments to systematically optimize manufacturing and testing processes for fluorene isophthalate terephalate (also known as fluorene polyester or FPE) capacitors, such that the commercial availability of a reliable and affordable supply of these capacitors will be encouraged. The processes to be optimized include film casting, film metallization, and final capacitor assembly.

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Development of a High Pressure/High Temperature Downhole Turbine Generator

To develop a downhole high-temperature turbine generator (HTTG) capable of operating at high pressures (>20,000 psi) and high temperatures (250?C), for powering rotary steerable tools, measurement while-drilling and logging-while-drilling (MWD and LWD) tools, and other drill string components, either commercially available or under development.

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