2011 Projects

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Final-year design projects were presented on the 11th annual Project Day: April 2, 2011 at the University of Regina.

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    Gesture Mouse
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Vuthitanachot, Kitton; Yang, Lang
    The Gesture Mouse is a device that captures finger motion via infra-red sensing, and translates the movements into standard Human Interface Device (HID) mouse commands. As the user moves his/her fingers in the air, the cursor moves correspondingly on the computer display. The Gesture Mouse is platform-independent so that no extra driver software is required.
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    Location Based Messaging System
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Cunningham, Kendra; Matheson, Patrick
    Vicinitea is a virtual message board application for both iPhone and Android systems, which allows users to drop messages targeted at a specific location. The system is based on GPS and various other location determination techniques. Users can post a message at their current location or respond to a message in their vicinity.
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    UofR Life
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Samizadeh, Pooya; Pizarro, Luis; Enmark, Craig
    UofR Life is an iPhone application that displays events and available food services at the University of Regina. All events will be generated by the users, and the users will be able to subscribe to events. There is a companion website that contains additional functionality from the iPhone application.
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    Stop Announcement
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Gauthier, Joanne
    For people who are seeing- or hearing-impaired, accessing public transit can be a daunting experience. Stop Announcement is a real-time system which aids passengers with a disability by alerting them of current and next stops with a scrolling LED sign and LCD monitor, as well as a short-wave FM transmission of stop number, intersection, and time remaining until the next stop.
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    Blackberry Presentation Remote
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Schroeder, Kurtis; Blanshard, Graham
    This application turns a Blackberry Smartphone with Bluetooth into a remote control for Microsoft PowerPoint presentations. The user can view presentation information, such as speaker notes and slide information, on the phone while orchestrating the entire presentation wirelessly, thus removing the need to be in proximity to the computer on which the presentation resides.
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    A Prediction-based Browsing Extension for Mozilla Firefox
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Kingston, Brent; Elder, Lee
    This project presents a Firefox extension that uses a model of the users’ browsing history to predict where they are likely to browse based on their current web page. Users can choose to exclude web sites from their results and to preview the results as images of the websites. The model is stored on a server to allow for use from different locations, and URLs are encrypted to preserve privacy.
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    Formation Skin Damage: Can Underbalanced Drilling Damage Less and Recover More?
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Francis, Erica
    Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) has many benefits, including the mitigation of skin damage during the drilling process. How this reduction, or prevention, of skin damage actually benefits a reservoir and the overall recovery and life of the well is debatable. The aim of this project is to confirm the advantages of UBD by simulating reservoir damage and the effects of drilling fluids in overbalanced, or conventional, drilling practices on a core and compare the results to an undamaged case.
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    Production Evaluation of Shale Gas Reservoir
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Barua, Rajib; Afrad, Min-am
    The main objective of this project is to simulate a shale gas reservoir numerically in order to find those areas within the accumulation that will produce gas commercially, and then to evaluate and compare the predicted gas rate with real-life data. Shale gas has increased in importance as the production of conventional gas starts to decline.
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    Economic Evaluation and Drilling Plan for SE SK Bakken Formation
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Murphy, Taylor; Steen, Matt
    New technologies such as horizontal drilling and various fracturing techniques have led to economic production from the Bakken, which was previously considered marginally economic. These techniques have been evaluated, along with a full economic evaluation for 08-009-09W2M, which is currently undrilled and lies in the heart of the Bakken light oil play. A completion program has been outlined based on the feasibility of developing the section with today’s technology and oil prices.
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    Correlatons between Formation Resistivity Factor with Porosity and Permeability
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Weisshaar, Lee; Duan, Jinhong
    This project correlates Formation Resistivity Factor for the Bakken formation with porosity and permeability. A pickett plot was created, and the correlation coefficients a and m were determined. Lithology was determined from core analysis or gamma ray logs; resistivity values and porosity from logs available on Accumap and Geoscout; and permeability data from core analysis data.
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    The Study of Vapour Extraction (VAPEX) on Heavy Oil Reservoirs and Upscaling Approaches
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Jamshidi, Tayebeh; Movahedzadeh, Zeinab
    VAPEX reduces the viscosity of heavy oil by injecting it with a light hydrocarbon solvent. The resulting diffusion and mass transfer are strongly dependent on the injection rate, solvent concentration, cementation factor, and other reservoir parameters. The aim of this project is to modify the relationships between these parameters using laboratory test results and actual field data in order to improve the accuracy of the predictive mathematical models, since results obtained from laboratory data deviate considerably from real field behaviour.
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    Optimization of a Heavy Crude Oil Heater Treater
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Hassan, Nasir; Wild, Evan
    Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) owns and operates a heavy crude oil treating facility near Elk Point, AB. This facility currently uses four horizontal heater treaters to effectively reduce the basic sediment and water content of the produced crude oil. In recent years, there has been a decline in the overall performance of the heater treaters. The goal of this project is to optimize the heater treaters and improve their operating efficiencies by determining both the optimum treating sizes and operating temperatures of the vessels.
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    Methods of Determining Minimum Miscibility Pressure for a CO2 – Light Oil Pair
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Affleck, Tyson; Ruether, Bryan
    Miscible flooding is an effective tertiary Enhanced Oil Recovery technique after primary and secondary recovery methods have been exhausted. Minimum Miscibility Pressure (MMP) is the pressure at which miscibility is achieved between injected gas and reservoir oil. The main focus of this project is the design and implementation of a Rising Bubble Apparatus (RBA) for MMP identification. Core-flood and Vanishing Interfacial Tension (VIT) results are also analyzed and compared with RBA results, and a recommendation for MMP is made.
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    Development and Optimization of Reservoir MJ
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Petersen, Melissa; Isbister, Jordan
    Different development plans to effectively exploit Reservoir MJ have been evaluated and optimized. First, a history match was completed to accurately predict future reservoir fluid behavior. Then different well patterns were evaluated, with the prospect of waterflooding. Other design work included production well designs which entail drill string, casing, cementing, and hydraulic programs as well as pump and drilling rig selections. Finally, the most effective development plan was selected on the basis of economic evaluation and production performance.
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    CO2 Injection in the Bakken Formation
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Stoeck, Alyssa; Johnson, Julien
    The Bakken play has been of great interest to oil companies in recent years. It produces high quality oil from a reservoir with low porosity and low permeability, but has a rapid decline rate immediately after production starts. This project examines and analyzes the effectiveness of CO2 injection into the formation via horizontal wells to increase and maintain production in an economic manner.
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    Near Miscible Flooding for the Hay River Pool
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Eberle, Whitney; Reeve, Scott
    The Hay River Pool has been developed with water-flooding through horizontal wells, but the reservoir appears suitable for near-miscible CO2-hydrocarbon injection. Our objective is to find the optimal CO2-hydrocarbon mixture, and determine the feasibility of the near-miscible flooding technique on the Hay River Pool. Since water-flooding facilities are already in place, a combination of near-miscible flooding and water-flooding has also been investigated.
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    An Efficient and Economically Viable Cleaning System for Produced Sand in Heavy Oil Recovery for Municipal Projects
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Richardson, Jenna; Hearn, Cathleen
    Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand (CHOPS) produces large amounts of sand, which is stockpiled before being disposed of into salt caverns. This disposal process is inefficient and is an economic burden on the company. The objective of this project is to design a system to process the sand so that it may be sold for profit. An industrial-level processing unit has been designed, based on the optimal concentration and the amount and type of solvent used to treat the sand.
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    Simulation of Wormhole Effect on a Cold Heavy Oil Production with Sand Well Performance
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Kubeisinova, Assol; Karsybayev, Kuat
    This project investigates the influence of wormhole formation processes on cold heavy oil production with sand (CHOPS) well performance. Wormhole formation processes are simulated by means of a commercial simulator based upon the concepts of variation of wormhole geometry over time, and pressure drop along a wormhole.
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    Comparative Evaluation of 3 Immiscible Displacement Processes in Heavy Oil Systems (Numerical Simulation)
    (Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Regina, 2011-04-02) Ghotra, Varinder; Hyder, Zeshan
    The objective of this project is to use computer modelling groups (CMG) to simulate the data collected from detailed experimental work conducted at the University of Regina into three heavy oil recovery techniques: water flooding, CO2 flooding ,and water alternating CO2 injection. Research into heavy oil reservoirs has increased significantly over the past few years due to the limiting production of conventional oil.
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    Optimizing Drill Bit Selection using Artificial Neural Networks
    (Fa, 2011-04-02) Lertnimoolchai, Yanee; Ogunrinde, Kanyin
    The proper bit can increase the rate of penetration (ROP) and reduce overall drilling costs. Conventional analytical optimization methods alone are not sufficient due to the complexity and non linearity of the factors affecting ROP. Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), capable of handling complex relationships, are used to predict bit performance. A model created using ANNs allows for the selection of the optimal bit for any given pre-specified set of data.