Underground Storage Engineering Research Center (USE)

Wang, Shihao, Fangxuan Chen, Yu-Shu Wu, and Hadi Nasrabadi, “The Potential of Hydrogen Storage in Depleted Unconventional Gas Reservoirs: A Multiscale Modeling Study.” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2023

Shihao Wang, Yanbin Zhang, and Yu-Shu Wu, “An Analytical Solution of Pressure and Displacement Induced by Recovery of Poroelastic Reservoirs and its Applications,” SPE Journal, 2023

Wu, Dawei, Yuan Di, and Yu-Shu Wu, “A New Projection-Based Integrally Embedded Discrete Fracture Model and Its Application in Coupled Flow and Geomechanical Simulation for Fractured Reservoirs,” Geofluids, pp. 22, February 2022

Elsayed, Mahmoud, Ridha Al-Abdrabalnabi, Xianmin Zhou, and Yu-Shu Wu, “Influence of long-term stored oil on wettability and its recovery in depleted petroleum reservoirs,” Energy Reports, Volume 8, pp. 2085-2099, November 2022

Wu, Yuanqing, Jisheng Kou, Yu-Shu Wu, Shuyu Sun, and Yilin Xia, “A decoupled scheme Wang, Shihao, Yu-Shu Wu, and Xian-Huan Wen, “Theoretical Analysis and Semi-Analytical Formulation for Efficient Thermal-Hydraulic-Mechanical Reservoir Simulation,” Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2021

Zheng, Zhixue, Yuan Di, and Yu-Shu Wu, “Nanopore Confinement Effect on the Phase Behavior of CO2/Hydrocarbons in Tight Oil Reservoirs considering Capillary Pressure, Fluid-Wall Interaction, and Molecule Adsorption,” Geofluids, Volume 2021, pp. 1468-8115

Tian, Ye, Chi Zhang, Zhengdong Lei, Xiaolong Yin, Hossein Kazemi, and Yu-Shu Wu, “An Improved Multicomponent Diffusion Model for Compositional Simulation of Fractured Unconventional Reservoirs,” SPE Journal, 2021

Wang, Shihao, Yuan Di, Philip H. Winterfeld, Jun Li, Xianmin Zhou, Bowen Yao, and Yu-Shu Wu, “Understanding the Multiphysical Processes in CO2-EOR Operations: A Numerical Study Using a General Simulation Framework,” Vol. 26, SPE Journal, pp.918-939, 2021

Zhao, Xinrui, Ridha Al-Abdrabalnabi, Yu-Shu Wu*, and Xianmin Zhou, “Evaluations of the feasibility of oil storage in depleted petroleum reservoirs through experimental and modeling studies,” Fuel, 294(1), 2021; DOI: 10.1016/j.fuel.2021.120316

Rastogi, A. and Fan, Y. Experimental and Modeling Study of Onset of Liquid Accumulation. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jngse.2019.103064

Rastogi, A. and Fan, Y. Machine Learning Augmented Two-fluid Model for Segregated Flow. Fluids 2022, 7, 12. MDPI. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids7010012

Titov, A.; Fan, Y.; Kutun, K.; Jin, G. Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Response of Rising Taylor Bubbles in Slug Flow. Sensors 2022, 22, 1266. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/s22031266

Ning, Y., Kazemi, H., Tura, A., and Davis, T. L. 2023. Carbon neutral oil assessment using a dual-porosity compositional mode in unconventional reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Jan. 2023.

Ning, Y., Kazemi, H., Tura, A., and Davis, T. L. 2022. Tracer Analysis in Flow Channel Characterization and Modeling of Gas and CO2 Injection EOR in Unconventional Reservoirs. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, Feb. 2022.

Kazemi, H. and Davis, T. L. 2021. Energy Transition: A Reservoir Engineering Perspective. First Break Journal, Sept. 2021, Special Topics: Reservoir Geoscience and Engineering

Uzun, O., Kazemi, H. 2021. Assessment of Enhanced Oil Recovery by Osmotic Pressure in Unconventional Reservoirs: Application to Niobrara Chalk and Codell Sandstone. Fuel Journal, Aug. 2021

Tian, Y., Zhang, C., Zhengdong L., Yin, X., Kazemi, H., and Wu, Y. S. 2021. An improved Multicomponent Diffusion Model for Compositional Simulation of Fractured Unconventional Reservoirs. SPE Journal.

Augustine, C., Johnson, H., Young, D., Amini, K., Uzun, I., Kazemi, H., 2021. Evaluation of Energy Storage Potential of Unconventional Shale Reservoirs Using Numerical Simulation of Cyclic Gas Injection. Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 143, November 2021.

Alarifi, S.A., and Miskimins, J. A New Approach To Estimating Ultimate Recovery for Multistage Hydraulically Fractured Horizontal Wells by Utilizing Completion Parameters Using Machine Learning. SPE Production & Operations Journal, January 14, 2021.

Alfataierge, A., Miskimins, J. L., Davis, T. L. and Benson, R. D. 3D Hydraulic-Fracture Simulation Integrated With 4D Time-Lapse Multicomponent Seismic and Microseismic Interpretations, Wattenberg Field, Colorado, paper SPE 189889, SPE Production & Operations Journal, February 1, 2019.

Kutun, K., Jin, G. and Miskimins, J.L. Measurement Environment’s Effect on DTS Surveys: A Case Study on Fiber Cable-Wellbore Coupling, paper URTEC-2021-5610-MS presented at the SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, July 2021.

Liu, Z., Ozkan, E., Zerpa, L.E., and Yin, X.: “Molecular Sieving of Hydrocarbon Mixtures through Nano-Porous Membranes,” paper URTEC-2020-2809-MS, presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 20-22 July 2020, Virtual.

Zhu, Z., Yakup Coskuner, Y., Xiaolong Yin, X., Ozkan, E.: “Experimental and Molecular Studies of the Effect of CO2 on Hindered Flows of Oil through Niobrara Shale,” paper URTEC-2020-3088-MS, presented at the Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, 20-22 July 2020, Virtual.

Zhu, Z., Fang, C., Qiao, R., Yin, X., Ozkan, E.: “Experimental and Molecular Insights on Mitigation of Hydrocarbon Sieving in Niobrara Shale by CO₂ Huff ‘n’ Puff,” SPE-196136-PA, SPE Journal, Volume 25, Issue 04, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Richardson, TX, August 2020.

Zhu, Z., Fang, C., Qiao, R., Coskuner, Y., Yin, X., & Ozkan, E. (2021). Experimental measurements and mechanisms of selective hindrance of oil mixtures in Niobrara shale. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 205, 108867.

Coskuner, Y., Yin, X., and Ozkan, E.: “Effects of Molecular Level Forces on the Diffusivity Characteristics of Hydrocarbons in Shale Reservoirs.” Paper presented at the SPE/AAPG/SEG Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Houston, Texas, USA, July 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.15530/urtec-2021-5680

Coskuner, Yakup Berk, Dean, Elio, Yin, Xiaolong, and Erdal Ozkan. “Water Alternating Alkane Injection: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study.” Paper presented at the SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference, Virtual, April 2022. doi: https://doi.org/10.2118/209363-MS

Bai, T. and Tahmasebi*, P., 2022. Graph Neural Network for Groundwater Level Forecasting. Journal of Hydrology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.128792.

Bai, T., Tahmasebi*, P.: Coupled Hydro-Mechanical Analysis of Seasonal Underground Hydrogen Storage in a Saline Aquifer. Journal of Energy Storage. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.104308

Tahmasebi*, P., Kamrava, S.: A pore-scale mathematical modeling of fluid-particle interactions: Thermo-hydro-mechanical coupling. Int. J. Greenh. Gas Control. 83, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2018.12.014

Zhang, X., Tahmasebi*, P.: Micromechanical evaluation of rock and fluid interactions. Int. J. Greenh. Gas Control. 76, 266–277 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1016/J.IJGGC.2018.07.018 [PDF]