{"title":"Predicting The Azimuth of Stress from Wellbore Breakouts in (X) Oil Field","authors":"H. Almalikee","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i4.733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i4.733","url":null,"abstract":" The current minimum and maximum horizontal stresses orientations are influential parameters in the development of any Geomechanical model; these models aim to reduce wellbore instability and non-productive time during drilling by selecting the best wellbore direction when drilling inclined or horizontal wells. Minimum horizontal stress orientations can be established by examining wellbore breakouts. Borehole breakouts result from a natural failure compression process in which the maximum hoop stress surrounding the hole exceeds the rock strength, which may be detected using an oriented caliper log tool. There is no data in the World Stress Map (WSM) in the research area. As a result, data from 10 wells in the (X) oilfield's Oriented caliper well logs were analyzed for this study. The breakouts azimuth is consistent with depth, and the minimum horizontal stress azimuth from the north is 140o - 150o and 320o - 330o, which is compatible with the regional maximum horizontal stress direction (Shmax). As a result, the recommended drilling direction of deviated, and horizontal wells in the (X) oil field area should parallel the maximum horizontal stress. ","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"35 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139009919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fiscal Regime in Petroleum Licensed Contracts","authors":"Hashim J. Mohammed","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.644","url":null,"abstract":"Fiscal regimes in petroleum licensed contracts are defined as the tools through which the return on oil wealth fellow into the state treasury, it includes several forms according to the type of contract, so, the most common fiscal tools are: royalty, taxes, profit oil or rents.\u0000This work makes a comparison between the fiscal regimes in common types of petroleum investment agreements and the difference between them according to the state share and contractor share.\u0000 The main types of these regimes are concessionary and contractual agreements and the last include two types: production sharing and service agreements. However, Algerian, Syrian, Iranian & Iraq will be examined as example for each type respectively,\u0000The study relies on a comparison between the items of the fiscal regime and the tools through which resource revenues flow to the public treasury as well as the share of the contractor or the company that holds the concession.\u0000Therefore, a model of fiscal regimes has been conducted for the above contracts to show the difference between the fiscal flows of each country according to the type of contract and the fiscal tools in it as royalty, taxes and others.\u0000The study demonstrated that the contracts vary in revenue ratios depending on the sale price of oil and the cost of extraction.\u0000Finally, we can clearly infer that the share of both the company and the state is affected by the above circumstances in a high or slight sensitivity, There is no particular type can be considered the best, as preference depends on the special circumstances of countries, for example, the Iraqi situation is difficult to use concession contracts for several considerations, including constitutional, where the Constitution of the Republic of Iraq specified the ownership of the people's oil wealth and this property cannot be relinquished to the investing companies and so on the rest of the countries, but it can be hybridized between some systems to obtain financial instruments that achieve the best choice for the parties (state and IOCs).","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"163 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77813942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement of the Texture & Morphology of Nano γ-Alumina as a Support for Naphtha Reforming Catalyst","authors":"Mustafa H. Flayyih, Mohammed S. Theib","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.665","url":null,"abstract":"The morphology of nano gamma alumina affects the molecule adsorption-desorption phenomena. In this case, manipulating the surface area, pore volume, and pore size by the technique of preparation to control the morphology and textural properties of gamma alumina. Washing of the synthesized boehmite gel with methanol has a significant effect. The co-precipitation method was used to prepare nano gamma alumina, which is involved by adding drop-by-drop ammonium hydroxide and aluminum nitrate nonahydrate solutions to a cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) cationic surfactant solution at 30 C and adjust PH to 8. Nitrogen adsorption-desorption analysis (ASAP 2020), Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) were used to examine the obtained material. Surface area (362 m2/g), pore volume (0.51 cm3/g), pore size (5.2 nm), and narrow pore size distribution were obtained.","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86644246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jassim Mohammed Al Said Naji, G. Abdul-Majeed, Ali K. Alhuraishawy, Abbas R. Abbas
{"title":"Prediction of Sanding Likelihood Intervals Using Different Approaches","authors":"Jassim Mohammed Al Said Naji, G. Abdul-Majeed, Ali K. Alhuraishawy, Abbas R. Abbas","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.698","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.698","url":null,"abstract":"Sand production is undesirable matters, occurring in wells that are producing from sand reservoirs. It causes many problems such as erosion and grains accumulation in downhole and surface equipment’s, and formation subsidence. Important stage in sanding problem solution is a prediction of likelihood sand production intervals. In present paper, a vertical well X1 that is producing from Asmari reservoir in Y field at southern Iraq was selected for study. Asmari reservoir was classified to six units: A, B1, B2, B3, B4, and C. B zones consisted from sandstone with others rock types. Eight approaches were used for prediction sanding onset intervals by dealing with X1 well as open hole completion. Utilized eight prediction methods are compressional sonic wave (CSW), unconfined compressive strength (UCS), total porosity (PHIT), shear modulus to bulk compressibility (G/Cb), B-Index, Schlumberger index (S- Index), combined index (Ec-Index) and critical drawdown pressure (CDDP). All these methods performed based on 2462 measured points of CSW, sonic shear wave log (SSW), and density log (DL). Sand production likelihood intervals was selected by determination of cutoff values of adopted methods. Sand is possible to occur if interval has values lower than cutoff values of G/Cb, UCS, B-Index, S-Index, Ec, and CDDP and greater than cutoff values of CSW, and PHIT. Obtained cutoff values of eight approaches were 800 x 109 psi2, 36 Mpa, 0.2, 80 us/ft, 10000 Mpa, 108 Mpa, and 2700 Mpa, of G/Cb, UCS, PHIT, CSW, B-Index, S-Index, and Ec respectively. As well as sand production is possible to occur of bottomhole flowing pressure lower than calculated CDDP. Some Intervals had high CDDP that referred to abnormal pressure zones consisted from shale. Determination of sand onset intervals is a key for selecting best methods for controlling.","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81004786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Abbas, Tariq M. Naife, D. J. Ahmed, Eman B. Hasan
{"title":"Enhancement of Vacuum Gas Oil Viscosity Using Ultrasound","authors":"F. Abbas, Tariq M. Naife, D. J. Ahmed, Eman B. Hasan","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.695","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.695","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasonic treatment is a suitable method for refinery processes that Acoustic cavitation is a technique that allows high levels of energy to be released into the liquid, which leads to changes in fluid properties such as a decrease in viscosity. Additionally, it's an effective way to improve the economic feasibility of physicochemical processing to enhance the quality of the product. In this work, vacuum gas oil with viscosity of 8.4 c.st, provided by Iraqi refineries, was treated by ultrasound radiation and studied the effect of several parameters on viscosity such as sonication time (5,10,15,20,30) min, power amplitude(10,20,30,40,50)watt, and frequency (20,30,40,50) kHr. It was found from the results that the viscosity decreased from (8.4) c.st to (5.82) c.st, which represents a percentage reduction of up to 30.7% compared to the value before treatment. This result was obtained after 30 min., also the 50% of ultrasound power is the appropriate to reduce the viscosity, where The experiment showed that 20 kHz of ultrasound frequency has a decreasing effect on the viscosity as the percentage reaches 30%.","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75233357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Iraq Crude Oil Exports for January, February and March 2021","authors":"State Oil Marketing Organization -SOMO","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.772","url":null,"abstract":"Table 1. Iraq Crude Oil Exports – January 2021 \u0000Table 2. Iraq Crude Oil Exports – February 2021 \u0000Table 3. Iraq Crude Oil Exports – March 2021 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"236 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79585740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigation of The Effect of Temperature and Contamination on Properties of Saturated Salt-Base mud","authors":"H. A. Abdulhussien, M. S. Salih","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.770","url":null,"abstract":"The most difficult challenge that can be encountered when drilling a salt section is the difficulty of controlling the change in drilling fluid properties. In addition, the challenging geological environment was encountered. , creep behavior, slim hole drilling in salt formation have a few traits: high soluble, wash out salt section (1). The treatment did by using drilling mud that inhibits changes and is resistant to contaminants. Sodium chloride and potassium chloride brine were used to create a new mud for discussing this research, following up on changes in the properties of the new mud, simulating the conditions of Salt section (12.25'' hole) in the Noor oil field. Moreover, In this investigation studied the effect of temperature and contaminants such as salt, shale and anhydrite on new mud properties (Rheological properties, Filtration, PH with Different concentrations of Kcl & Nacl. The results indicate that the dissolution of salt formation decreases with increasing KCl concentration up to 5% for saturating NaCl salt. This reduces the contaminant impact and increases the stability of mud characteristics.","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"30 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88104241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saba A. Gheni, Mohammed H. Mohammed, K. Hamad, Hassan M. Hmood
{"title":"On Kinetics of Upgrading Reactions by Supercritical Water Technology of Highly Sour Qayara Crude Oil over an Activated Carbon-Based Catalyst","authors":"Saba A. Gheni, Mohammed H. Mohammed, K. Hamad, Hassan M. Hmood","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.685","url":null,"abstract":"Currently clean energy and zero emission fuel is a priority as there is a growing level of pollutants in air, sea and soil. Also, the conventional Iraqi crude oil is going to deplete according to the statistical analysis. Thus, methods of upgrading should attract attention in Iraqi fuel sector. The method of supercritical fluids (SCF) is one of the advanced approaches to upgrade the unconventional crude oil and removal of high levels of sulfur compounds. The present work aims at developing a kinetic model for upgrading reactions by supercritical water technology of a sour Iraqi crude oil. This aim was achieved via conducting sets of experiments in a hydrothermal autoclave reactor over a cobalt/activated carbon catalyst. The AC was used as a support for Co as an active metal. A set of upgrading kinetics experiments were applied at different temperatures (290-350 °C) and reaction times (0-45 min). Upon evaluation of the prepared catalysts for kinetics of upgrading by supercritical water technology, it was found that the process flows pseudo first order mechanism. Also, the activation energy of the chemical reaction was found to be 204.1 kJ/mol which is much less compared to previous studies","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"124 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89268218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"المســؤولية الاجتماعية للشركات ودورها في تحقيق التنمية المستدامة للمدة (2013-2018) -دراسة حالة- الشركات النفطية الأجنبية في محافظة البصرة","authors":"شهيل شداد فارس, عدنان فرحان عبد الحسين","doi":"10.52716/jprs.v13i2.771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52716/jprs.v13i2.771","url":null,"abstract":"إن الغرض من البحث هو تسليط الضوء على أثر المسؤولية الاجتماعية في مؤشرات التنمية المستدامة في محافظة البصرة لتعزيز مفهوم جديد أو تحدٍ آخر يضاف إلى جملة تحديات التنمية المستدامة في العراق عموما والبصرة على وجه الخصوص، إذ يجب تعزيز أهمية المسؤولية الاجتماعية في النشاطات الاقتصادية المختلفة لتحقيق الاندماج بين الاجتماع والاقتصاد والذي هو بالتأكيد سيلقي بظلاله على التنمية ومتطلباتها، وتكمن فائدة المسؤولية الاجتماعية للشركات بتعزيز الثقة بينها وبين المجتمع لأنه الرصيد المهم لها ولنشاطاتها المتعددة وبالتالي التأثير على مؤشرات التنمية المستدامة أيجاباَ","PeriodicalId":16710,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Petroleum Research and Studies","volume":"226 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78466851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}