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Papers by Furqan Hussain

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of fines migration and mineral reactions on CO2-water drainage relative permeability

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Research paper thumbnail of Permeability Damage Due to Fines Migration During CO2 Sequestration

Research paper thumbnail of Testing Tutorial-Lecture Swapping Technique in Reservoir Engineering Course to Enhance Students Learning Experience

SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

In the period 2008 to 2016, average enrolments in courses offered by the UNSW School of Petroleum... more In the period 2008 to 2016, average enrolments in courses offered by the UNSW School of Petroleum Engineering have grown from approximately 40 students to more than 100. This has rapid growth has created challenges for the School as the numbers of teaching staff has lagged behind the number of students. In order to ensure our students continue to enjoy a high quality learning experience across the program, we tested innovative teaching techniques in our 3rd year Reservoir Engineering course. In this paper we discuss some reservoir engineering example to explain our improved teaching techniques. Students in this course are assumed to have a sound grasp of the fundamental concepts of transport in porous media. Therefore, new content was introduced in the tutorials before the lectures. This swapping of the traditional order, requires students to actively apply existing knowledge to new environments and enables students to collaboratively construct knowledge of the course content in a p...

Research paper thumbnail of Direct observation of two-phase flow in deformable fractures of shales: A Utica shale example

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Effectiveness of modified CO2 injection at improving oil recovery and CO2 storage—Review and simulations

Research paper thumbnail of Techno-Economic Analysis of Co-Injection of CO2 and Water into Formations with Open Boundary

Research paper thumbnail of Improving CO2 storage and oil recovery by injecting alcohol-treated CO2

The APPEA Journal

Oil recovery and CO2 storage related to CO2 enhance oil recovery are dependent on CO2 miscibility... more Oil recovery and CO2 storage related to CO2 enhance oil recovery are dependent on CO2 miscibility. In case of a depleted oil reservoir, reservoir pressure is not sufficient to achieve miscible or near-miscible condition. This extended abstract presents numerical studies to delineate the effect of alcohol-treated CO2 injection on enhancing miscibility, CO2 storage and oil recovery at immiscible and near-miscible conditions. A compositional reservoir simulator from Computer Modelling Group Ltd. was used to examine the effect of alcohol-treated CO2 on the recovery mechanism. A SPE-5 3D model was used to simulate oil recovery and CO2 storage at field scale for two sets of fluid pairs: (1) pure CO2 and decane and (2) alcohol-treated CO2 and decane. Alcohol-treated CO2 consisted of a mixture of 4 wt% of ethanol and 96 wt% of CO2. All simulations were run at constant temperature (70°C), whereas pressures were determined using a pressure-volume-temperature simulator for immiscible (1400 psi...

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Injection Rate on Oil Water Relative Permeability Accounting for Capillary Pressure and Outlet end Effects

International Petroleum Technology Conference

Two-phase immiscible drainage experiments are performed on strongly water-wet sandstone sample to... more Two-phase immiscible drainage experiments are performed on strongly water-wet sandstone sample to assess and illustrate capillary end effects at different rates on relative permeability. All the experiments were done under unsteady state conditions with oil displacing brine in fully brine saturated cores. First, relative permeability curves are calculated using the Johnson–Bossler–Naumann (JBN) method (Johnson et al. 1959). Then, modified JBN model is defined to account for capillary pressure. Lastly, numerical simulator is used to generate relative permeability curves based on history matching. Results of the experiments show that as the rate increases (higher capillary number), the water relative permeability increases while the irreducible water saturation decreases. With high rate, less water saturation is being accumulated at the outlet hence less irreducible water and higher relative permeability. Moreover, the oil relative permeability curves are getting higher with higher ra...

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Temperature on Fines Migration during Water Disposal

International Petroleum Technology Conference

Research paper thumbnail of Wettability of Sandstone Rocks and their Mineral Components during CO2 Injection in Aquifers: Implications for Fines Migration

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Computation of Relative Permeability From In-Situ Imaged Fluid Distributions at the Pore Scale

SPE Journal

Summary Image-based computations of relative permeability require a description of fluid distribu... more Summary Image-based computations of relative permeability require a description of fluid distributions in the pore space. Recent advances in imaging technologies have made it possible to directly resolve actual fluid distributions at the pore scale, thus capturing a large field of view for arbitrary wetting conditions, which are numerically difficult to reproduce. In previous studies, fluid distributions were not imaged under in-situ conditions, which may cause the oil (nonwetting) phase to snap off. Consequently, computed oil relative permeability is underestimated, particularly at low oil saturations. This study extends our previous work by imaging fluid distributions under in-situ conditions as a basis for numerical computations. In this study, we perform a steady-state flow test on a homogeneous outcrop sandstone (Bentheimer) core. First, the dry core is imaged in our microcomputed-chromatography (micro-CT) facility. Afterward, the core is fully saturated with 0.4 molar sodium i...

Research paper thumbnail of Project-Based Learning for First-Year Engineering Students: Design of CO2 Sequestration

Australasian Journal of Engineering Education

ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the teaching and learning outcomes from a first-year projectbased e... more ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the teaching and learning outcomes from a first-year projectbased engineering course at the University of New South Wales. The students worked in teams to design and build a device to sequester “CO2” into a reservoir. We present our observation of the peer assessments, performance prediction and diversity of the students. We found that some teams collaborated more effectively than others. We quantified this effectiveness using an online peer assessment that enables students to rate the performance of their teammates. These ratings were incorporated into the assignment of individual marks for group assignments. The analysis of the marks students achieved for various assessments and components of the course is presented. We observed that female students tended to out-perform their peers in both individual and team assessments, and students who did well in individual components of the course also did well in the team components. The use of early assessments to predict performance in later assessments seems to be difficult. However, there is a strong connection between students’ results for their design proposal and their results for the final design work. We are able to show statistically a signifi cant improvement for marks for presentations but not for report writing. Anonymous surveys showed that about 90% of students were satisfi ed with their experience of the course. Students found this course to be challenging and enjoyable, giving them a good start in developing their skills as engineers.

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of Fines Migration During CO2 Injection Using Pore Scale Characterization

SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition

Research paper thumbnail of Insights, Trends and Challenges Associated with Measuring Coal Relative Permeability

E3S Web of Conferences

Due to the poroelasticity of coal, both porosity and permeability change over the life of the fie... more Due to the poroelasticity of coal, both porosity and permeability change over the life of the field as pore pressure decreases and effective stress increases. The relative permeability also changes as the effective stress regime shifts from one state to another. This paper examines coal relative permeability trends for changes in effective stress. The unsteady-state technique was used to determine experimental relativepermeability curves, which were then corrected for capillary-end effect through history matching. A modified Brooks-Corey correlation was sufficient for generating relative permeability curves and was successfully used to history match the laboratory data. Analysis of the corrected curves indicate that as effective stress increases, gas relative permeability increases, irreducible water saturation increases and the relative permeability cross-point shifts to the right.

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Water Salinity on Permeability Alteration during CO₂ Sequestration

Advances in Water Resources

Research paper thumbnail of Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Increased Ganglion Dynamics During Fractional Flow in Mixed-Wet Porous Media

Research paper thumbnail of A laboratory study of the effect of creep and fines migration on coal permeability during single-phase flow

International Journal of Coal Geology

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Gravity on Near-Miscible CO2 Flooding

SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition

Research paper thumbnail of A numerical evaluation of using thin spray-on liners for coal mine gas management

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Field-scale simulation of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery and storage through SWAG injection using laboratory estimated relative permeabilities

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of fines migration and mineral reactions on CO2-water drainage relative permeability

International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control

Research paper thumbnail of Permeability Damage Due to Fines Migration During CO2 Sequestration

Research paper thumbnail of Testing Tutorial-Lecture Swapping Technique in Reservoir Engineering Course to Enhance Students Learning Experience

SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

In the period 2008 to 2016, average enrolments in courses offered by the UNSW School of Petroleum... more In the period 2008 to 2016, average enrolments in courses offered by the UNSW School of Petroleum Engineering have grown from approximately 40 students to more than 100. This has rapid growth has created challenges for the School as the numbers of teaching staff has lagged behind the number of students. In order to ensure our students continue to enjoy a high quality learning experience across the program, we tested innovative teaching techniques in our 3rd year Reservoir Engineering course. In this paper we discuss some reservoir engineering example to explain our improved teaching techniques. Students in this course are assumed to have a sound grasp of the fundamental concepts of transport in porous media. Therefore, new content was introduced in the tutorials before the lectures. This swapping of the traditional order, requires students to actively apply existing knowledge to new environments and enables students to collaboratively construct knowledge of the course content in a p...

Research paper thumbnail of Direct observation of two-phase flow in deformable fractures of shales: A Utica shale example

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Effectiveness of modified CO2 injection at improving oil recovery and CO2 storage—Review and simulations

Research paper thumbnail of Techno-Economic Analysis of Co-Injection of CO2 and Water into Formations with Open Boundary

Research paper thumbnail of Improving CO2 storage and oil recovery by injecting alcohol-treated CO2

The APPEA Journal

Oil recovery and CO2 storage related to CO2 enhance oil recovery are dependent on CO2 miscibility... more Oil recovery and CO2 storage related to CO2 enhance oil recovery are dependent on CO2 miscibility. In case of a depleted oil reservoir, reservoir pressure is not sufficient to achieve miscible or near-miscible condition. This extended abstract presents numerical studies to delineate the effect of alcohol-treated CO2 injection on enhancing miscibility, CO2 storage and oil recovery at immiscible and near-miscible conditions. A compositional reservoir simulator from Computer Modelling Group Ltd. was used to examine the effect of alcohol-treated CO2 on the recovery mechanism. A SPE-5 3D model was used to simulate oil recovery and CO2 storage at field scale for two sets of fluid pairs: (1) pure CO2 and decane and (2) alcohol-treated CO2 and decane. Alcohol-treated CO2 consisted of a mixture of 4 wt% of ethanol and 96 wt% of CO2. All simulations were run at constant temperature (70°C), whereas pressures were determined using a pressure-volume-temperature simulator for immiscible (1400 psi...

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Injection Rate on Oil Water Relative Permeability Accounting for Capillary Pressure and Outlet end Effects

International Petroleum Technology Conference

Two-phase immiscible drainage experiments are performed on strongly water-wet sandstone sample to... more Two-phase immiscible drainage experiments are performed on strongly water-wet sandstone sample to assess and illustrate capillary end effects at different rates on relative permeability. All the experiments were done under unsteady state conditions with oil displacing brine in fully brine saturated cores. First, relative permeability curves are calculated using the Johnson–Bossler–Naumann (JBN) method (Johnson et al. 1959). Then, modified JBN model is defined to account for capillary pressure. Lastly, numerical simulator is used to generate relative permeability curves based on history matching. Results of the experiments show that as the rate increases (higher capillary number), the water relative permeability increases while the irreducible water saturation decreases. With high rate, less water saturation is being accumulated at the outlet hence less irreducible water and higher relative permeability. Moreover, the oil relative permeability curves are getting higher with higher ra...

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Temperature on Fines Migration during Water Disposal

International Petroleum Technology Conference

Research paper thumbnail of Wettability of Sandstone Rocks and their Mineral Components during CO2 Injection in Aquifers: Implications for Fines Migration

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Computation of Relative Permeability From In-Situ Imaged Fluid Distributions at the Pore Scale

SPE Journal

Summary Image-based computations of relative permeability require a description of fluid distribu... more Summary Image-based computations of relative permeability require a description of fluid distributions in the pore space. Recent advances in imaging technologies have made it possible to directly resolve actual fluid distributions at the pore scale, thus capturing a large field of view for arbitrary wetting conditions, which are numerically difficult to reproduce. In previous studies, fluid distributions were not imaged under in-situ conditions, which may cause the oil (nonwetting) phase to snap off. Consequently, computed oil relative permeability is underestimated, particularly at low oil saturations. This study extends our previous work by imaging fluid distributions under in-situ conditions as a basis for numerical computations. In this study, we perform a steady-state flow test on a homogeneous outcrop sandstone (Bentheimer) core. First, the dry core is imaged in our microcomputed-chromatography (micro-CT) facility. Afterward, the core is fully saturated with 0.4 molar sodium i...

Research paper thumbnail of Project-Based Learning for First-Year Engineering Students: Design of CO2 Sequestration

Australasian Journal of Engineering Education

ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the teaching and learning outcomes from a first-year projectbased e... more ABSTRACT This paper evaluates the teaching and learning outcomes from a first-year projectbased engineering course at the University of New South Wales. The students worked in teams to design and build a device to sequester “CO2” into a reservoir. We present our observation of the peer assessments, performance prediction and diversity of the students. We found that some teams collaborated more effectively than others. We quantified this effectiveness using an online peer assessment that enables students to rate the performance of their teammates. These ratings were incorporated into the assignment of individual marks for group assignments. The analysis of the marks students achieved for various assessments and components of the course is presented. We observed that female students tended to out-perform their peers in both individual and team assessments, and students who did well in individual components of the course also did well in the team components. The use of early assessments to predict performance in later assessments seems to be difficult. However, there is a strong connection between students’ results for their design proposal and their results for the final design work. We are able to show statistically a signifi cant improvement for marks for presentations but not for report writing. Anonymous surveys showed that about 90% of students were satisfi ed with their experience of the course. Students found this course to be challenging and enjoyable, giving them a good start in developing their skills as engineers.

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of Fines Migration During CO2 Injection Using Pore Scale Characterization

SPE Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition

Research paper thumbnail of Insights, Trends and Challenges Associated with Measuring Coal Relative Permeability

E3S Web of Conferences

Due to the poroelasticity of coal, both porosity and permeability change over the life of the fie... more Due to the poroelasticity of coal, both porosity and permeability change over the life of the field as pore pressure decreases and effective stress increases. The relative permeability also changes as the effective stress regime shifts from one state to another. This paper examines coal relative permeability trends for changes in effective stress. The unsteady-state technique was used to determine experimental relativepermeability curves, which were then corrected for capillary-end effect through history matching. A modified Brooks-Corey correlation was sufficient for generating relative permeability curves and was successfully used to history match the laboratory data. Analysis of the corrected curves indicate that as effective stress increases, gas relative permeability increases, irreducible water saturation increases and the relative permeability cross-point shifts to the right.

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Water Salinity on Permeability Alteration during CO₂ Sequestration

Advances in Water Resources

Research paper thumbnail of Experimental and Theoretical Evidence for Increased Ganglion Dynamics During Fractional Flow in Mixed-Wet Porous Media

Research paper thumbnail of A laboratory study of the effect of creep and fines migration on coal permeability during single-phase flow

International Journal of Coal Geology

Research paper thumbnail of Effect of Gravity on Near-Miscible CO2 Flooding

SPE Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Annual Technical Symposium and Exhibition

Research paper thumbnail of A numerical evaluation of using thin spray-on liners for coal mine gas management

Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering

Research paper thumbnail of Field-scale simulation of CO 2 enhanced oil recovery and storage through SWAG injection using laboratory estimated relative permeabilities

Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering