Reservoir Evaluation/Advanced Computational Technologies

Publications

You, J., Ampomah, W., & Sun, Q. (2020). Co-optimizing water-alternating-carbon dioxide injection projects using a machine learning assisted computational framework. Applied Energy, 279, 115695. 

Sun, Q., Ampomah, W., Kutsienyo, E. J., Appold, M., Adu-Gyamfi, B., Dai, Z., & Soltanian, M. R. (2020). Assessment of CO2 trapping mechanisms in partially depleted oil-bearing sands. Fuel, 278, 118356. 

Balch, R., Will, R., Ampomah, W. and Hobbs, N., 2020, December. Improvements in Geologic Modeling Workflows Based on Six Years of Incremental Models at Farnsworth CCUS/EOR Site. In 82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition (Vol. 2020, No. 1, pp.1-5). European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers. 

Dai, Z., Xu, L., Xiao, T., McPherson, B., Zhang, X., Zheng, L., ... & Ampomah, W. (2020). Reactive chemical transport simulations of geologic carbon sequestration: Methods and applications. Earth-Science Reviews, 103265. 

You, J., Ampomah, W., Sun, Q., Kutsienyo, E.J., Balch, R.S., Dai, Z., Cather, M. and Zhang, X., 2020. Machine learning based co-optimization of carbon dioxide sequestration and oil recovery in CO2-EOR project. Journal of Cleaner Production, p.120866. 

You, J., Ampomah, W., & Sun, Q. (2020). Development and application of a machine learning based multi-objective optimization workflow for CO2-EOR projects. Fuel, 264,116758. 

You, J., Ampomah, W., Sun, Q., Kutsienyo, E.J., Balch, R.S. and Cather, M., 2019, September. Multi-Objective Optimization of CO 2 Enhanced Oil Recovery Projects Using a Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Approach. In SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

Kumar, A., Bear, A., Hu, H., Hammack, R., Harbert, W., Ampomah, W., Balch, R.,Garcia, L., Nolte, A. and Tsoflias, G., 2019, August. Seismic monitoring of CO2-EORoperations in the Texas Panhandle and southern Kansas using surface seismometers. In SEG International Exposition and Annual Meeting. Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 

Kutsienyo, E.J., Ampomah, W., Sun, Q., Balch, R.S., You, J., Aggrey, W.N. and Cather,M., 2019, June. Evaluation of CO-EOR Performance and Storage Mechanisms in an Active Partially Depleted Oil Reservoir. In SPE Europec featured at 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

You, J., Ampomah, W., Kutsienyo, E.J., Sun, Q., Balch, R.S., Aggrey, W.N. and Cather,M., 2019, June. Assessment of Enhanced Oil Recovery and CO Storage Capacity Using Machine Learning and Optimization Framework. In SPE Europec featured at 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

McMillan, M., Will, R., Ampomah, W., Balch, R. and Czoski, P., 2019, June. Coupled Hydrodynamic-Geomechanical Modelling of CO2-WAG Field Development at Farnsworth Unit: A Case Study. In SPE Europec featured at 81st EAGE Conference and Exhibition. Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

Soltanian, M.R., Hajirezaie, S., Hosseini, S.A., Dashtian, H., Amooie, M.A., Meyal, A., Ershadnia, R., Ampomah, W., Islam, A. and Zhang, X., 2019. Multicomponent reactive transport of carbon dioxide in fluvial heterogeneous aquifers. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 65, pp.212-223. 

McMillan, M., Will, R., Ampomah, W., Balch, R. and Czoski, P., 2019, April. Coupled geomechanical modeling to assess cap rock integrity and mechanical fault stability: Application to Farnsworth field unit project. In SPE Western Regional Meeting. Society of Petroleum Engineers. 

Moodie, N., Ampomah, W., Jia, W., Heath, J. and McPherson, B., 2019. Assignment and calibration of relative permeability by hydrostratigraphic units for multiphase flow analysis, case study: CO2-EOR operations at the Farnsworth Unit, Texas. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 81, pp.103-114. 

Rasmussen, L., Fan, T., Rinehart, A., Luhmann, A., Ampomah, W., Dewers, T., Heath,J., Cather, M. and Grigg, R., 2019. Carbon Storage and Enhanced Oil Recovery in Pennsylvanian Morrow Formation Clastic Reservoirs: Controls on Oil–Brine and Oil–CO2 Relative Permeability from Diagenetic Heterogeneity and Evolving Wettability. Energies, 12(19), p.3663. 

Dai, Z., Zhang, Y., Bielicki, J., Amooie, M.A., Zhang, M., Yang, C., Zou, Y., Ampomah, W., Xiao, T., Jia, W. and Middleton, R., 2018. Heterogeneity-assisted carbon dioxide storage in marine sediments. Applied Energy, 225, pp.876-883. 

Kumar, A., Chao, K., Hammack, R., Harbert, W., Ampomah, W., Balch, R., & Garcia, L., 2018. Surface-seismic monitoring of an active CO2-EOR operation in the Texas Panhandle using broadband seismometers. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018 (pp. 3027-3031). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 

 El-kaseeh, G., Czoski, P., Will, R., Balch, R., Ampomah, W., & Li, X., 2018. Time- lapse vertical seismic profile for CO2 monitoring in carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration/EOR, Farnsworth project. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2018 (pp. 5377-5381). Society of Exploration Geophysicists. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Cather, M., Will, R., Gunda, D., Dai, Z., & Soltanian, M. R., 2017. Optimum design of CO2 storage and oil recovery under geological uncertainty. Applied Energy, 195, 80-92. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R., Grigg, R. B., Cather, M., Gragg, E., Will, R. A., ... & Dai, Z., 2017. Performance assessment of CO2-enhanced oil recovery and storage in the Morrow reservoir. Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and Geo-Resources,1-19. 

 Kumar, A., Zorn, E., Hammack, R., Harbert, W., Ampomah, W., Balch, R., & Garcia, L., 2017. Numerical Simulation of CO2-EOR and Storage Potential in the Morrow Formation, Ochiltree County, Texas. In SEG Technical Program Expanded Abstracts 2017 (pp. 2851-2855). 

Society of Exploration Geophysicists. Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Cather, M., Rose-Coss, D., & Gragg, E., 2017. Co- optimization of CO2-EOR and Storage Processes under Geological Uncertainty. SPE- 185086 presented in SPE Oklahoma City Oil and Gas Symposium.27–31 March, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. 

 Ampomah W., R.S. Balch, R. Will, M. Cather, D. Gunda, Z. Dai, 2017. Performance assessment of CO2-enhanced oil recovery and storage in the Morrow reservoir. Energy Procedia, 114, 6928- 6941. 

 M.D. White, R.P. Esser, B.P. McPherson, R.S. Balch, N. Liu, P.E. Rose, L. Garcia, and W. Ampomah, 2016. Interpretation of Tracer Experiments on Inverted Five-Spot Well- Patterns within the Western Half of the Farnsworth Unit Oil Field. Energy Procedia, 114, 7070-7095. 

 Zhenxue Dai, Hari Viswanathan, Ting Xiao, Richard Middleton, Feng Pan, William Ampomah, et.al., 2016. CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery at Depleted Oil/Gas Reservoirs. Energy Procedia, 114, 6957-6967. 

Zhenxue Dai, Ye Zhang, Philip Staffer, Ting Xiao, Minkan Zhang, William Ampomah, et.al., 2016. Injectivity Evaluation for Offshore CO2 Sequestration in Marine Sediments. Energy Procedia, 114, 2921-2932. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R., Cather, M., Rose-Coss, D., Dai, Z., Heath, J., Dewers, T. and Mozley, P., 2016. Injectivity Evaluation for Offshore CO2 Sequestration in Marine Sediments. Energy & Fuels, 30(10), pp.8545-8555. 

Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Grigg, R. B., McPherson, B., Will, R. A., Lee, S.-Y., Dai, Z. and Pan, F., 2016. Co-optimization of CO2-EOR and storage processes in mature oil reservoirs. Greenhouse Gas Sci Technol. 

Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Grigg, R. B., Will, R., Gunda D., 2016. Performance of CO2-EOR and Storage Processes under Uncertainty: Case Study. paper SPE-180084-MS presented at SPE EUROPEC at 78th EAGE Conference held in Vienna, Austria, May 30- June 2 2016.

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Grigg, R. B., Will, R., Lee, S.Y., 2016. Optimization of CO2- EOR Process in Partially Depleted Oil Reservoirs. paper SPE-180376-MS presented at SPE Western Regional Meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska, May 23-26. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Chen, H.Y., Gunda, D. and Cather, M., 2016. Probabilistic Reserve Assessment and Evaluation of Sandstone Reservoir in the Anadarko Basin. paper SPE-179953- MS presented at SPE/IAEE Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium held in Houston- Texas USA, May 17-18, 2016. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., and Ross-Coss, D., Hutton, A., and Will, R., 2016. An Integrated Approach for Characterizing a Sandstone Reservoir in the Anadarko Basin. paper OTC-26952- MS presented at Offshore Technology Conference held in Houston- Texas USA, May 2-5 2016. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., Grigg, R. B. Will, R., and M.D. White, 2016. Farnsworth Field CO2-EOR Project: Performance Case History. paper SPE-179528-MS at SPE Improved Oil Recovery Conference held in Tulsa, OK, USA. April 11-13 2016. 

 Zhenxue Dai, Hari Viswanathan, Richard Middleton, Feng Pan, William Ampomah, Changbing Yang, Wei Jia, Ting Xiao, Si-Yong Lee, Brian McPherson, Robert Balch, Reid Grigg, and Mark White, 2016. CO2 Accounting and Risk Analysis for CO2 Sequestration at Enhanced Oil Recovery Sites. Environmental Science & Technology. 

 Pan, F., B. J. McPherson, Z. Dai, W. Jia, S. Lee, W. Ampomah, H. Viswanathan, R. Esser, 2016. Uncertainty Analysis of Carbon Sequestration in an Active CO2-EOR Field. Int. J. of Greenh. Gas Control. 

 Ross-Coss, D., Ampomah, W., Cather M., Balch, R. S., Mozley, P., 2016. An Improved Approach for Sandstone Reservoir Characterization. paper SPE-180375-MS presented at SPE Western Regional Meeting held in Anchorage, Alaska, May 23-26. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R. S., and Grigg, R. B., Dai Z., and Pan, F., 2015. Compositional Simulation of CO2 Storage Capacity in Depleted Oil Reservoirs. Paper CMTC-439476- MS presented at Carbon Management Technology Conference held in Sugarland, Houston-Texas USA, November 16-19 2015. 

 Ampomah, W., Balch, R., and Grigg, R., 2015. Analysis of Upscaling Algorithms in Heterogeneous Reservoirs with Different Recovery Processes. paper SPE-173588-MS presented at the SPE Production Operations Symposium held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, March 1–5. 

 Gunda D., Ampomah, W., Grigg, R. B. and Balch, R. S., 2015. Reservoir Fluid Characterization for Miscible Enhanced Oil Recovery. paper CMTC-440176-MS presented at Carbon Management Technology Conference held in Sugarland, Houston- Texas USA , November 16-19, 2015. 

 Dai, Z., Viswanathan, H., Fessenden-Rahn, J., Middleton, R., Pan, F., Jia, W., Ampomah, W., Grigg, R., 2014. Uncertainty Quantification for CO2 Sequestration and Enhanced Oil Recovery. Energy Procedia, 63, 7685–7693. 

 White, M. D., McPherson, B. J., Grigg, R. B., Ampomah, W., & Appold, M. S., 2014. Numerical Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Injection in the Western Section of the Farnsworth Unit. Energy Procedia, 63, 7891–7912. 

Ampomah, W., Chen, H. Y., & Assad, J., 2014. Comparison of Probabilistic Techniques in the Study of Fluid Effects on Seismic Properties. paper IPTC-17452-MS presented at International Petroleum Technology Conference held in Doha, Qatar. January 19-21 2014.