Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Well Log Analysis'

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2000.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 391-399).<br>We present an integrated approach for characterizing the reservoir and estimating its properties both at the well locations and in the inter-wen regions. Such an approach can be an invaluable tool for attaining a detailed, consistent, and complete characterization of the reservoir, as not only does it incorporate all major sources of information that shape our understanding of the reservoir, including core descriptions, well Jogs, seismic data, and a priori knowledge of the geological setting of the region, but also it develops means for utilizing these sources of information in a unified manner that gives rise to a coherent framework for relating these sources of information to yield an integrated reservoir model. We analyze the different components of this approach, develop methodologies for improving the prediction accuracy of each, and link the mechanisms across these components to achieve an accurate and consistent characterization of the reservoir. The issues we tackle in this thesis can be broadly divided into four categories: enhancement of the seismic resolution, estimation of the reservoir properties at the well locations, characterizing the reservoir in the inter-well regions, and pre-processing the data to remedy any incompleteness or inconsistency.<br>by Muhammad M. Saggaf.<br>Ph.D.

All the oil and gas wells producing in the Arikaree Creek Field, Colorado targeted the Spergen Formation along similar structures within a wrench fault system; however, the wells have vastly different production values. This thesis develops a predictive model for high production in the field while also accounting for a failed waterflood event that was initiated in 2016. Petrophysical analysis of thirteen wells show that high producing wells share common characteristics of pay zone location, lithology, porosity and permeability with one another and that the Spergen Formation is not homogenous. Highly productive wells have pay zones in the lower part of the formation in sections that are dolomitized, and have anonymously high water saturation. This is likely related to the paragenesis of the formation that dolomitized the lower parts of the formation, increasing porosity and permeability, but leaving the pay zones with the high water saturation values. This heterogeneity likely accounts for the failed waterflood. Results show that the important petrophysical components for highly productive wells are the location of the payzone within the reservoir, porosity, permeability and water saturation. Additionally, homogeneity is crucial for successful waterflooding, which was not present.

<p> The depositional environment of the middle to late Eocene Oberlin sand of Northwest Oberlin Field and Pilgrim Church Field in central Allen Parish, Louisiana, was investigated. The depositional environment of the Oberlin sand has been interpreted from observations of spontaneous potential log signatures, conventional core reports, paleontological reports, shape of isochore maps, coherency extraction attribute, amplitude extraction attribute, and multiple seismic and subsurface cross sections. Focus is centered on the juxtaposition of component sand bodies and their proximity to the interdistributary and prodelta environments. Sand bodies include distributary channels, distributary mouth bars, crevasse subdeltas and shelfal bars and are interpreted to be the products of lower deltaic and shelf processes. The results of this study are based on seismic analysis, display techniques and subsurface maps calibrated to well logs, models, and recognition criteria of modern and ancient depositional environments previously described in the regional literature. The integration of all available data provides an objective and systematic approach detailing the origin, lateral extent, geometry and architecture of the Oberlin sand in the lower deltaic plain and shelf environments. The results of this study may be applicable to similar age sands on trend with the study area. Understanding of sand component types of the lower deltaic and shelf environments is vital to exploration success and development optimization of hydrocarbon bearing reservoirs.</p>

3D seismic attribute analysis of the Jurassic Entrada/Curtis interval within the North Hill Creek (NHC) survey has been useful in delineating reservoir quality eolian-influenced dune complexes. Amplitude, average reflection strength and spectral decomposition appear to be most useful in locating reservoir quality dune complexes, outlining their geometry and possibly displaying lateral changes in thickness. Cross sectional views displaying toplap features likely indicate an unconformity between Entrada clinoforms below and Curtis planar beds above. This relationship may aid the explorationist in discovering this important seismic interval. Seismic and well log attribute values were cross plotted and have revealed associations between these data. Cross plots are accompanied by regression lines and R2 values which support our interpretations. Although reservoir quality dune complexes may be delineated, the Entrada/Curtis play appears to be mainly structural. The best producing wells in the survey are associated with structural or stratigraphic relief and the thickest Entrada/Curtis intervals. Structural and stratigraphic traps are not always associated with laterally extensive dune complexes. Time structure maps as well as isochron maps have proven useful in delineating the thickest and/or gas prone portions of the Entrada/Curtis interval as well as areas with structural and stratigraphic relief. We have observed that the zones of best production are associated with low gamma ray (40-60 API) values. These low values are associated with zones of high amplitude. Thus, max peak amplitude as a seismic attribute may delineate areas of higher sand content (i.e. dune complexes) whereas zones of low amplitude may represent areas of lower sand content (i.e. muddier interdune or tidal flat facies). Lack of significant average porosity does not seem to be related to a lack of production. In fact, the best producing wells have been drilled in Entrada/Curtis intervals where average porosity is near 4 %. There are however zones within the upper portion of the Entrada/Curtis that are 40 ft. (12.2 m) thick and have porosities between 14% and 20%. By combining derived attribute maps with observed cross plot relationships, it appears that the best producing intervals within the Entrada/Curtis are those associated with high amplitudes, API values from 40-60 and structural relief.

Heavy-duty trucks accounts for 25% CO2 emissions in Sweden and there is approximately 12.6 million heavy-duty vehicles in the EU with different types of fuel and utilization areas. EU is implementing increased legislations to reduce emissions and increase the use of biofuel and members of the EU is starting to ban the use of diesel trucks in local areas, which drives the need to find other suitable fuel. Therefore, to study and compare the emissions and energy demand in the heavy-duty truck industry a case study is created. Which focuses on production and processing, transportation, distribution and fuel consumption. Cultivation of maize and anaerobic digestion of maize, waste and manure is included as well. Data gathered from the collaboration between the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, eucar and Concawe (JEC) is used to create scenarios and these are validated with previous studies. The case study includes seven LNG cases, three LBG cases and two diesel cases together with several other cases collected for verification. Furthermore, potential boil-off and leakage during maintenance is included to further estimate the possible emissions correlated with LNG and LBG vehicles. The Well-to-Wheels analysis resulted in most LNG and LBG cases having higher energy input compared to diesel. LBG has the lowest emissions of greenhouse gases. The transportation method and distance are the most important aspects for the Well-to-Tank analysis. The fuel consumption is the main source of emissions and energy input in the Tankto-Wheels analysis. In conclusion, the transportation and fuel consumption are the greatest contributors of emissions and energy demand in the complete Well-to-Wheels analysis.

Borehole imaging is one of the fastest and most precise methods for collecting subsurface data that provides high resolution information on layering, texture and dips, permitting a core-like description of the subsurface. Although the range of information recoverable from this technology is widely acknowledged, image logs are still used in a strictly qualitative manner. Interpreting image logs manually is cumbersome, time consuming and is subjective based on the experience of the interpreter. This thesis outlines new methods that automate image log interpretation and extract subsurface lithofacies information in a quantitative manner. We developed two methodologies based on advanced image analysis techniques successfully employed in remote sensing and medical imaging. The first one is a pixelbased pattern recognition technique applying textural analysis to quantify image textural properties. These properties together with standard logs and core-derived lithofacies information are used to train a back propagation Neural Network. In principle the trained and tested Neural Network is applicable for automated borehole image interpretation from similar geological settings. However, this pixel-based approach fails to make use explicitly of the spatial characteristics of a high resolution image. TAT second methodology is introduced which groups identical neighbouring pixels into objects. The resultant spectrally and spatially consistent objects are then related to geologically meaningful groups such as lithofacies by employing fuzzy classifiers. This method showed better results and is applied to outcrop photos, core photos and image logs, including a ‘difficult’ data set from a deviated well. The latter image log did not distinguish some of the conductive and resistive regions, as observed from standard logs and core photos. This is overcome by marking bed boundaries using standard logs. Bed orientations were estimated using an automated sinusoid fitting algorithm within a formal uncertainty framework in order to distinguish dipping beds and horizontal stratification. Integration of these derived logs in the methodology yields a complete automated lithofacies identification, even from the difficult dataset. The results were validated through the interpretation of cored intervals by a geologist. This is a supervised classification method which incorporates the expertise of one or several geologists, and hence includes human logic, reasoning, and current knowledge of the field heterogeneity. By including multiple geologists in the training, the results become less dependent on each individual’s subjectivity and prior experience. The method is also easily adaptable to other geological settings. In addition, it is applicable to several kinds of borehole images, for example wireline electrical borehole wall images, core photographs, and logging-while-drilling (LWD) images. Thus, the theme of this dissertation is the development of methodologies which makes image log interpretation simpler, faster, less subjective, and efficient such that it can be applied to large quantities of data.

<p>Vertical-cavity lasers (VCLs) are of great interest as lightsources for fiber-optic communication systems. Such deviceshave a number of advantages over traditional in-plane laserdiodes, including low power consumption, efficient fibercoupling, on-chip testability, as well as potential low-costfabrication and packaging. To date, GaAs-based VCLs operatingat 850 nm are the technology of choice for short-distance,high-speed data transmission over multimode fiber. Forlong-distance communication networks, long-wavelength (LW) VCLsoperating in the 1.3 and 1.55-&#956m transmission windowsof standard singlemode fibers are desired. However, despiteconsiderable worldwide development efforts, the commercialbreakthrough of such devices has still to be achieved. This ismainly due to shortcomings of the intrinsic material propertiesof InP-based material systems, traditionally employed in LWlaser diodes. While LW quantum well (QW) active regions basedon InP are well established, efficient distributed Braggreflectors (DBRs) are better built up in the AlGaAs/GaAsmaterial system. Therefore, earlier work on LW VCLs has focusedon hybrid techniques such as bonding between InP-based QWs andAlGaAs/GaAs DBRs using waferfusion. More recently, however, themain interest in this field has shifted towards all-epitaxialGaAs-based devices employing novel 1.3-&#956m activematerials with strained GaInNAs QWs as one of the mostpromising candidates.</p><p>The main focus of this thesis is on the characterization andanalysis of LW VCLs and building blocks thereof, based on bothInP and GaAs substrates. This includes a theoretical study on1.3-&#956m InGaAsP/InP multiple QW active regions, as wellas an experimental investigation of novel, highly strained1.2-&#956m InGaAs/GaAs single QWs. Two high-accuracyabsolute reflectance measurement setups were built for thecharacterization of various DBRs. Reflectance measurementsrevealed that n-type doping is much more detrimental to theperformance of AlGaAs/GaAs DBRs than previously anticipated.Near-room temperature operation of a single-fused1.55-&#956m VCL with an InP/InGaAsP bottom DBR wasobtained. A thermal analysis of this device structure clearlyindicated its limited capabilities in terms of high-temperatureoperation. As a result, further efforts were directed towardsall-epitaxial GaAs-based VCLs. Record-long emission wavelengthsto above 1260 nm were obtained from InGaAs VCLs based on anextensive gain–cavity detuning. These devices showed verypromising performance characteristics in terms of thresholdcurrent and light output power, indicating good potential forbeing a viable alternative to GaInNAs-based VCLs.</p>

Acknowledging the necessity of a detailed understanding of the dynamics and contributions of wetlands in decision making processes, this research aims to identify the trade-offs between human interventions and human well-being in wetlands. Being one of the thirteen Ramsar Sites of Turkey and providing various ecosystem functions, Kizilirmak Delta was determined as the case study area of the research. Following the literature review on wetlands and their valuation, an assessment framework was developed for analyzing the trade-offs in the Kizilirmak Delta. Following this framework, first the importance, values and functions of the delta were defined by evaluation of its ecological, socio-cultural and economic structures and function analysis. Then, the pressures on the delta and their impacts were analyzed through DPSIR (Driving forces, Pressures, State, Impacts and Responses) Framework by action analysis. Finally, the trade-offs in the delta were calculated in monetary terms through valuation of the functions of the delta. Because of time and data constraints only a small portion of the functions of the delta was quantified in monetary terms. Calculated functions of the delta provide 753.531.772 TL worth of services that constitutes the 34 % of total GDP of the delta. This value was accepted as the cost of trade-offs in the delta, because the pressures on the delta would result in the loss of this value.

AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Saurav Shrestha, for the Masters of Science degree in CIVIL ENGINEERING, presented on November 22, 2016, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: VERIFICATION OF SHEAR LAG IN LONGITUDINALLY WELDED TENSION MEMBERS. MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. J. Kent Hsiao, Ph.D., P.E. (CA), S.E. (UT) Tension members are used broadly as bracing members in buildings and truss. When double channels or double tees are welded to a gusset plate, stresses are distributed non-uniformly in connected members since only a part of its cross-section is connected. Shear lag factor describes this phenomenon. The main objective of this study is to verify shear lag factor of tension steel members with welded connections using the finite element computer analysis and the current design Specification for Structural Steel Buildings (AISC 2010). The provision for calculating shear lag factor, U, is given by AISC Specification as 1-x ̅/L for angles, tees, channels and wide flange tension members. Weld size and length of the weld are the main parameters studied here. The current AISC design provision over-estimates the design tensile strength of double channel shapes. While, for WT Shapes it under-estimates one. The increase in weld size and decrease in weld length shows slight change in shear lag factor. Comparison is also made with the equation proposed by Fortney and Thornton (2012). The equation under-estimates the design tensile strength of both sections.

Thesis advisor: Ce Shen<br>Civic engagement, involving people in public processes to achieve common goals, has received increased attention in the past several decades. This renewed interest was triggered by the seeming decline in civic engagement, particularly in the context of Western societies including the U.S. In addition, its potentially positive effects, such as psychological well-being at the individual level, have recently received much attention. Low-income people in developing countries suffer from double discrimination: first, the lack of opportunities to participate in civic matters due to their low socio-economic status (SES) and second, the lack of civil society culture in developing countries. However, less attention has been paid to civic engagement in the context of developing countries and low-income people, in spite of the importance of civic engagement to them. Given the significance of civic engagement for low-income populations in developing countries, this dissertation intends to fill the gaps left by previous scholarship. The following are specific objectives for the study: 1) Paper 1 aims to investigate the construct validity of an instrument to measure civic engagement among low-income populations in developing countries; 2) Paper 2 aims to examine the associations between country-level political and economic determinants and civic engagement among low-income people in developing countries; and 3) Paper 3 aims to examine the effect of civic engagement on subjective well-being through the mediating effect of sense of agency. Using the cross-national data set, the World Values Survey Wave 6 (2010-2014), this study first found that civic engagement among low-income individuals in low- and middle-income countries is defined in three dimensions: electoral behaviors, membership in civic organizations, and cognitive engagement. This result contributes to measurement development of civic engagement, especially among the low-income individuals in the context of developing countries, who have been neglected in policy-making processes. In Paper 2, I found that civic engagement increases in economically disadvantaged environments (low GNI per capita and high Gini coefficient). This finding may reveal the strength that low-income populations have. Lastly, the results of Paper 3 showed that electoral engagement and membership in civic organizations were directly related to well-being, but cognitive engagement had an indirect effect on well-being through a sense of agency. Also, the result of a non-recursive model showed that engagement in electoral behaviors leads to a sense of well-being, not in the reverse direction. The results from Paper 3 may demonstrate the mechanism by which civic engagement is related to well-being<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work<br>Discipline: Social Work

Depuis Ruelle, puis Rugh, Baladi, Tsujii, Liverani et d'autres, on sait que la fuite vers l'équilibre statistique dans de nombreux systèmes dynamiques chaotiques est gouvernée par le spectre de résonances de Ruelle de l'opérateur de transfert. A la suite de récents travaux de Faure, Sjöstrand et Roy, cette thèse propose une approche semiclassique de systèmes dynamiques chaotiques de type partiellement expansifs. Une partie du mémoire est consacrée aux extensions d'applications expansives vers des groupes de Lie compacts, en se reistreignant essentiellement aux extensions vers le groupe spécial unitaire SU(2). On se sert de la théorie des états cohérents pour les groupes de Lie, développée dans les années 70 par Perelomov et Gilmore, pour mettre en oeuvre les outils semiclassiques et la théorie des résonances de Helfer et Sjöstrand. On en déduira une estimation de Weyl et un gap spectral pour les résonances de Ruelle prouvant que la fuite vers l'équilibre statistique dans ces modèles est gouvernée par un opérateur de rang fini (en accord avec les résultats obtenus par Tsujii pour les semi-flots partiellement expansifs). On étend ensuite cette approche aux modèles "ouverts" pour lesquels la dynamique présente un ensemble captif de Cantor. On montrera l'existence d'un spectre discret de résonances de Ruelle et on prouve une loi de Weyl fractale, analogue classique du théorème de Lin-Guillopé-Zworski pour les résonances du laplacien hyperbolique sur les surfaces à courbure négative constante. On montre aussi un gap spectral asymptotique. On expliquera pourquoi ces modèles semblent être des objets d'étude adaptés pour approcher des questions importantes et difficiles du chaos classique ou quantique. On pense en particulier au problème de la minoration du nombre de résonances, étudié dans le contexte des applications quantiques par Nonnenmacher et Zworski<br>Since the work of Ruelle, then Rugh, Baladi, Tsujii, Liverani and others, it is kown that the convergence towards statistical equilibrium in many chaotic dynamical systems is gouverned by the Ruelle spectrum of resonances of the so-called transfer operator. Following recent works from Faure, Sjöstrand and Roy, this thesis gives a semiclassical approach for partially expanding chaotic dynamical systems. The first part of the thesis is devoted to compact Lie groups extenstions of expanding maps, essentially restricting to SU(2) extensions. Using Perlomov's coherent state theory for Lie groups, we apply the semiclassical theory of resonances of Helfer and Sjöstrand. We deduce Weyl type estimations and a spectral gap for the Ruelle resonances, showing that the convergence towards equilibrium is controled by a finite rank operator (as Tsujii already showed for partially expanding semi-flows). We then extend this approach to "open" models, for which the dynamics exhibits a fractal invariant reppeler. We show the existence of a discrete spectrum of resonances and we prove a fractal Weyl law, the classical analogue of Lin-Guillopé-Zworski's theorem on resonances of non-compact hyperbolic surfaces. We also show an asymptotic spectral gap. Finally we breifly explain why these models are interseting "toy models" to explore important questions of classical and quantum chaos. In particular, we have in mind the problem of proving lower bounds on the number of resonances, studied in the context of open quantum maps by Nonnenmacher and Zworski

<p>Many hydrocarbon reservoirs are situated in barren sequences that display poor stratigraphic control. Correlation between the wells can become extremely difficult and traditional correlation techniques can prove to be inadequate. Past studies have shown that trace and major element concentrations can be used as a correlation tool. This practice of using geochemical fingerprints to characterize between wells is called Chemostratigraphic analysis. (Pearce et al, 1999) Chemostratigraphy has been recognized as a very important correlation technique as it can be used for rocks of any age, in any geological setting as well as sequences that are traditionally defined as barren. Chemostratigraphic analyses can be used as a means of getting rid of ambiguities within data produced by traditional correlation methods such as Biostratigraphy, Lithostratigraphy and Geophysical Logging. In areas where stratigraphic data is not available it can be used to construct correlation frameworks for the sequences found in the area. The motivation behind this study is that the research is not only worthy of academic investigation, but can also provide the industry with new insights into areas that were previously misunderstood because traditional correlation methods were not adequate. The study area, the Orange basin, is located offshore South Africa and is largely underexplored. The basin, that hosts two gas field namely the Ibhubesi and the Kudu gas fields, has large potential but in the past has not been given due attention with only 34 wells being drilled in the area. The Orange basin has recently been the topic of investigation because of the belief that it may be hosts to more hydrocarbons. This study will utilise Chemostratigraphy to attempt to provide geological information on this relatively under-explored basin. The aim of this research study is to produce a chemostratigraphic framework -scheme for the Orange Basin in order to facilitate reservoir scale interwell correlation. The Objectives of this research study will be to identify chemostratigraphic units or indices, to prove the adequate use of chemostratigraphy as an independent correlation technique and to integrate the chemostratigraphy and petrophysical characteristics of the four wells to facilitate lithological identification.</p>

A two square mile (5.2 square kilometer) 3-D seismic reflection survey was completed in northeastern White County, Illinois for petroleum exploration in January of 2008. Well log data was made available from Royal Drilling and Producing, who contracted the seismic survey, and additional data was retrieved from the ILOIL database. Raster (TIFF format) images that were available for nearly every well location in the study area were calibrated for depth and stratigraphic tops picked. The purpose of this study is to analyze the Aux Vases formation using 3-D seismic reflection data and attribute analysis by comparing this data to well log information that is greatly available in the study area. Synthetic seismograms were calculated to calibrate seismic reflection data time to actual geological depth to a formation. The synthetic seismograms were calculated using wavelets extracted from the 3-D seismic data and edited, digital (LAS format) sonic and density logs measured in three wells. Geophysical log data from wells in the area were used to interpret formation top and bottoms. With the Aux Vases and Ste. Genevieve top information, an isopach was generated. Horizons were handpicked in all 318 seismic lines and isochron maps were generated to compare time thickness to actual thickness of the isopach maps. Attribute analysis was performed on horizon and volume cubes to interpret the Aux Vases formation in the study area. These attributes included instantaneous phase, instantaneous amplitude, and instantaneous frequency. Additionally, multiple spectral decomposition cubes (from four SEG-Y volumes) were generated for 520-580 ms intervals and interpreted at 550 ms. The combination of this data lead to identification of two larger stratigraphic bodies and several smaller ones in the study area. Thickness comparison between these attributes and isopach maps was completed and found similarities that can be used to determine potential thickness. A thickness estimate was completed at Well B using the frequency from spectral decomposition. A channel was mapped in the western edge of the survey using spectral decomposition and other attributes. Finally, a fault was identified in the southeastern portion of the survey area.

Cette thèse à pour objet l’étude des résonances du laplacien sur les variétés à pointes. Ce sont des variétés dont les bouts sont des pointes hyperboliques réelles. Ces objets ont été introduits par Selberg pour les surfaces à pointes de courbure constante dans les années 50. Leur définition a ensuite été étendue en courbure variable par Lax et Phillips. Les résonances sont les poles d’une famille méromorphe de fonctions propres généralisées du laplacien. Elles sont associées au spectre continu du laplacien. Pour analyser ce spectre continu, plusieurs directions de recherche sont explorées ici. D’une part, on obtient des résultats sur la localisation de ces résonances. En particulier, si la courbure est négative, on montre que pour un ensemble générique de métriques, les résonances se séparent en deux ensembles. Le premier est contenu dans une bande près du spectre continu. L’autre partie est composé de résonances qui s’éloignent du spectre. Ceci laisse une zone de taille log sans résonance.D’autre part, on étudie les mesures microlocales associées à certaines suites de paramètre spectraux. En particulier, on montre que pour des suites de paramètres spectraux qui s’approche du spectre, mais pas trop vite, la mesure microlocale associée est nécessairement la mesure de Liouville. Cette propriété est valable quand la courbure de la variété est négative<br>In this thesis, we study the resonances of the Laplace operator on cusp manifolds. They are manifolds whose ends are real hyperbolic cusps. The resonances were introduced by Selberg in the 50's for the constant curvature cusp surfaces. Their definition was later extended to the case of variable curvature by Lax and Phillips. The resonances are the poles of a meromorphic family of generalized eigenfunctions of the Laplace operator. They are associated to the continuous spectrum of the Laplace operator. To analyze this continuous spectrum, different directions of research are investigated.On the one hand, we obtain results on the localization of resonances. In particular, if the curvature is negative, for a generic set of metrics, they split into two sets. The first one is included in a band near the spectrum. The other is composed of resonances that are far from the spectrum. This leaves a log zone without resonances. On the other hand, we study the microlocal measures associated to certain sequences of spectral parameters. In particular we show that for some sequences of parameters that converge to the spectrum, but not too fast, the associated microlocal measure has to be the Liouville measure. This property holds when the curvature is negative

Depuis Ruelle, puis Rugh, Baladi, Tsujii, Liverani et d'autres, on sait que la fuite vers l'équilibre statistique dans de nombreux systèmes dynamiques chaotiques est gouvernée par le spectre de résonances de Ruelle de l'opérateur de transfert. A la suite de récents travaux de Faure, Sjöstrand et Roy, cette thèse propose une approche semiclassique de systèmes dynamiques chaotiques de type partiellement expansifs. Une partie du mémoire est consacrée aux extensions d'applications expansives vers des groupes de Lie compacts, en se reistreignant essentiellement aux extensions vers le groupe spécial unitaire SU(2). On se sert de la théorie des états cohérents pour les groupes de Lie, développée dans les années 70 par Perelomov et Gilmore, pour mettre en oeuvre les outils semiclassiques et la théorie des résonances de Helfer et Sjöstrand. On en déduira une estimation de Weyl et un gap spectral pour les résonances de Ruelle prouvant que la fuite vers l'équilibre statistique dans ces modèles est gouvernée par un opérateur de rang fini (en accord avec les résultats obtenus par Tsujii pour les semi-flots partiellement expansifs). On étend ensuite cette approche aux modèles "ouverts" pour lesquels la dynamique présente un ensemble captif de Cantor. On montrera l'existence d'un spectre discret de résonances de Ruelle et on prouve une loi de Weyl fractale, analogue classique du théorème de Lin-Guillopé-Zworski pour les résonances du laplacien hyperbolique sur les surfaces à courbure négative constante. On montre aussi un gap spectral asymptotique. On expliquera pourquoi ces modèles semblent être des objets d'étude adaptés pour approcher des questions importantes et difficiles du chaos classique ou quantique. On pense en particulier au problème de la minoration du nombre de résonances, étudié dans le contexte des applications quantiques par Nonnenmacher et Zworski.

El 7 de octubre del 2018 tuvo lugar las elecciones municipales y regionales en el Perú. En el caso del distrito de Lima fue Jorge Muñoz del partido Acción Popular quien salió ganador tras superar a candidatos como Ricardo Belmont, Renzo Reggiardo y Daniel Urresti. El presente trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo principal identificar la imagen construida por el diario ‘El Comercio’ del entonces candidato Jorge Muñoz a través de las publicaciones impresas durante los días 23 de setiembre al 8 de octubre. Estas serán estudiadas tras ser divididas en cuatro variables de investigación: Análisis de la Diagramación, Análisis del Texto, Análisis del Gráfico y Análisis de la Fotografía. Todo ello bajo los tópicos del análisis del discurso periodístico, la comunicación política y el análisis de las imágenes.<br>The 7th of October of 2018 had place the municipal and regional elections in Perú. In the case of Lima, the capital of Peru, Jorge Muñoz, of the political party Acción Popular, the winner. This reaserch has as principal objective to identify the image built by ‘El Comercio’ on its print edition of the candidate Jorge Muñoz between the 23th of September and the 8th of October. These will be studied following the next topics: Layout Analysis, Text Analysis, Graphic Analysis and Photo Analysis.<br>Trabajo de investigación

Il est fréquent en oncologie, de vouloir déterminer si seulement un sous groupe de patients va bénéficier ou pas d’un traitement. C’est un des paradigmes de la médecine personnalisée ou stratifiée. Les biomarqueurs prédictifs sont souvent utilisés pour sélectionner ces patients et la plupart de ces biomarqueurs sont continus. Par exemple les signatures génomiques comme Oncotype-Dx. Il a été proposé dans la littérature une méthodologie d’évaluation d’un biomarqueur avec réponse binaire. L’objectif dans cette thèse est dans un premier travail d’étendre cette méthodologie avec un critère de jugement censuré et de déterminer à différent horizons de prédiction le seuil optimal du biomarqueur au-delà duquel le traitement sera attribué ou évité. Un modèle dont l’estimation de ces paramètres repose sur des pondérations par l’inverse des probabilités de censure est proposé permettant ainsi d’obtenir un estimateur consistant. Une extension des courbes de prédictivité par bras de traitement dépendantes du temps est ainsi proposée. Dans un second travail, un test de l’hypothèse de calibration avec des données censurées à droite a été proposé. Ce test est valide au-delà 60% de taux de censure contrairement à ceux qui existe déjà dans la littérature et nous permettra d’étudier l’influence d’une mauvaise calibration sur la détermination du seuil. Un troisième travail s’intéresse à la détermination du seuil d’un nouveau biomarqueur pronostique pour le cancer de l’ovaire afin de classer les patients en haut ou bas risque de rechute. Enfin, dans un quatrième travail, nous proposons d’employer la régression quantile pour données censurées pour quantifier le bénéfice à long terme de l’immunothérapie<br>It is common in oncology to want to determine whether or not only a subgroup of patients will benefit from a treatment. This is one of the paradigms of personalized or stratified medicine. Predictive biomarkers are often used to select these patients and most of these biomarkers are continuous. For example genomic signatures such as Oncotype-Dx. A methodology for evaluating a biomarker with binary response has been proposed in the literature. The objective of this thesis is in first work to extend this methodology with right-censored data and to determine at different prediction horizons the optimal threshold of the biomarker beyond which treatment will be attributed or avoided. A model whose estimates of these parameters are based on inverse censored probability weights is proposed to provide consistent estimators. An extension of the predictiveness curves will be carried out. In a second work, a test of the calibration hypothesis with right-censored data has been proposed. This test will be valid beyond the 60% censoring rate contrary to those already existing in the literature and will allow us to study the influence of a bad calibration on the determination of the threshold. A third work focuses on the determination of the threshold of a new prognostic biomarker for ovarian cancer in order to classify patients at high or low risk of relapse. Finally, a fourth work consists in illustrating the relevance of the censored quantile regression for quantifying the long term benefit of immunotherapy in a reconstructed data set from a single randomized trial. The proposed methodology can be readilty employed for individual patients data meta-analysis to summarize evidence of immunotherapy as quantified by the upper quantile of the survival distribution

Doutoramento em Bioquímica<br>Os polissacarídeos são os componentes maioritários dos grãos de café verde e torrado e da bebida de café. Os mais abundantes são as galactomananas, seguindo-se as arabinogalactanas. Durante o processo de torra, as galactomananas e arabinogalactanas sofrem modificações estruturais, as quais estão longe de estar completamente elucidadas devido à sua diversidade e à complexidade estrutural dos compostos formados. Durante o processo de torra, as galactomananas e arabinogalactanas reagem com proteínas, ácidos clorogénicos e sacarose, originando compostos castanhos de alto peso molecular contendo nitrogénio, designados de melanoidinas. As melanoidinas do café apresentam diversas atividades biológicas e efeitos benéficos para a saúde. No entanto, a sua estrutura exata e os mecanismos envolvidos na sua formação permanecem desconhecidos, bem como a relação estrutura-atividade biológica. A utilização de sistemas modelo e a análise por espectrometria de massa permitem obter uma visão global e, simultaneamente, detalhada das modificações estruturais nos polissacarídeos do café promovidas pela torra, contribuindo para a elucidação das estruturas e mecanismos de formação das melanoidinas. Com base nesta tese, oligossacarídeos estruturalmente relacionados com a cadeia principal das galactomananas, (β1→4)-Dmanotriose (Man3), e as cadeias laterais das arabinogalactanas, (α1→5)-Larabinotriose (Ara3), isoladamente ou em misturas com ácido 5-Ocafeoilquínico (5-CQA), o ácido clorogénico mais abundante nos grãos de café verde, e péptidos compostos por tirosina e leucina, usados como modelos das proteínas, foram sujeitos a tratamento térmico a seco, mimetizando o processo de torra. A oxidação induzida por radicais hidroxilo (HO•) foi também estudada, uma vez que estes radicais parecem estar envolvidos na modificação dos polissacarídeos durante a torra. A identificação das modificações estruturais induzidas por tratamento térmico e oxidativo dos compostos modelo foi feita por estratégias analíticas baseadas principalmente em espectrometria de massa, mas também em cromatografia líquida. A cromatografia de gás foi usada na análise de açúcares neutros e ligações glicosídicas. Para validar as conclusões obtidas com os compostos modelo, foram também analisadas amostras de polissacarídeos do café obtidas a partir de resíduo de café e café instantâneo. Os resultados obtidos a partir dos oligossacarídeos modelo quando submetidos a tratamento térmico (seco), assim como à oxidação induzida por HO• (em solução), indicam a ocorrência de despolimerização, o que está de acordo com estudos anteriores que reportam a despolimerização das galactomananas e arabinogalactanas do café durante a torra. Foram ainda identificados outros compostos resultantes da quebra do anel de açúcares formados durante o tratamento térmico e oxidativo da Ara3. Por outro lado, o tratamento térmico a seco dos oligossacarídeos modelo (individualmente ou quando misturados) promoveu a formação de oligossacarídeos com um maior grau de polimerização, e também polissacarídeos com novos tipos de ligações glicosídicas, evidenciando a ocorrência de polimerização através reações de transglicosilação não enzimática induzidas por tratamento térmico a seco. As reações de transglicosilação induzidas por tratamento térmico a seco podem ocorrer entre resíduos de açúcares provenientes da mesma origem, mas também de origens diferentes com formação de estruturas híbridas, contendo arabinose e manose como observado nos casos dos compostos modelo usados. Os resultados obtidos a partir de amostras do resíduo de café e de café instantâneo sugerem a presença de polissacarídeos híbridos nestas amostras de café processado, corroborando a ocorrência de transglicosilação durante o processo de torra. Além disso, o estudo de misturas contendo diferentes proporções de cada oligossacarídeo modelo, mimetizando regiões do grão de café com composição distinta em polissacarídeos, sujeitos a diferentes períodos de tratamento térmico, permitiu inferir que diferentes estruturas híbridas e não híbridas podem ser formadas a partir das arabinogalactanas e galactomananas, dependendo da sua distribuição nas paredes celulares do grão e das condições de torra. Estes resultados podem explicar a heterogeneidade de estruturas de melanoidinas formadas durante a torra do café. Os resultados obtidos a partir de misturas modelo contendo um oligossacarídeo (Ara3 ou Man3) e 5-CQA sujeitas a tratamento térmico a seco, assim como de amostras provenientes do resíduo de café, mostraram a formação de compostos híbridos compostos por moléculas de CQA ligadas covalentemente a um número variável de resíduos de açúcar. Além disso, os resultados obtidos a partir da mistura contendo Man3 e 5-CQA mostraram que o CQA atua como catalisador das reações de transglicosilação. Por outro lado, nas misturas modelo contendo um péptido, mesmo contendo também 5-CQA e sujeitas ao mesmo tratamento, observou-se uma diminuição na extensão das reações transglicosilação. Este resultado pode explicar a baixa extensão das reações de transglicosilação não enzimáticas durante a torra nas regiões do grão de café mais ricas em proteínas, apesar dos polissacarídeos serem os componentes maioritários dos grãos de café. A diminuição das reações de transglicosilação na presença de péptidos/proteínas pode dever-se ao facto de os resíduos de açúcares redutores reagirem preferencialmente com os grupos amina de péptidos/proteínas por reação de Maillard, diminuindo o número de resíduos de açúcares redutores disponíveis para as reações de transglicosilação. Além dos compostos já descritos, uma diversidade de outros compostos foram formados a partir dos sistemas modelo, nomeadamente derivados de desidratação formados durante o tratamento térmico a seco. Em conclusão, a tipificação das modificações estruturais promovidas pela torra nos polissacarídeos do café abre o caminho para a compreensão dos mecanismos de formação das melanoidinas e da relação estrutura-atividade destes compostos.<br>Polysaccharides are the major components of green and roasted coffee beans, and coffee brew. The most abundant ones are galactomannans, followed by arabinogalactans. During the roasting process, galactomannans and arabinogalactans undergo structural modifications that are far to be completely elucidated due to their diversity and complexity of the compounds formed. During the roasting process, galactomannans and arabinogalactans react with proteins, chlorogenic acids, and sucrose, originating high molecular weight brown compounds containing nitrogen, known as melanoidins. Several biological activities and beneficial health effects have been attributed to coffee melanoidins. However, their exact structures and the mechanisms involved in their formation remain unknown, as well as the structure-biological activity relationship. The use of model systems and mass spectrometry analysis allow to obtain an overall view and, simultaneously, detailed, of the structural modifications in coffee polysaccharides promoted by roasting, contributing to the elucidation of the structures and formation mechanisms of melanoidins. Based on this thesis, oligosaccharides structurally related to the backbone of galactomannans, (β1→4)-D-mannotriose, and the side chains of arabinogalactans, (α1→5)-Larabinotriose, alone or in mixtures with 5-O-caffeoylquinic acid, the most abundant chlorogenic acid in green coffee beans, and dipeptides composed by tyrosine and leucine, used as models of proteins, were submitted to dry thermal treatments, mimicking the coffee roasting process. The oxidation induced by hydroxyl radicals (HO•) was also studied, since these radicals seem to be involved in the modification of the polysaccharides during roasting. The identification of the structural modifications induced by thermal and oxidative treatment of the model compounds was performed mostly by mass spectrometry-based analytical strategies, but also using liquid chromatography. Gas chromatography was used in the analysis of neutral sugars and glycosidic linkages. To validate the conclusions achieved with the model compounds, coffee polysaccharide samples obtained from spent coffee grounds and instant coffee were also analysed. The results obtained from the model oligosaccharides when submitted to thermal treatment (dry) or oxidation induced by HO• (in solution) indicate the occurrence of depolymerization, which is in line with previous studies reporting the depolymerization of coffee galactomannans and arabinogalactans during roasting. Compounds resulting from sugar ring cleavage were also formed during thermal treatment and oxidative treatment of Ara3. On the other hand, the dry thermal treatment of the model oligosaccharides (alone or when mixed) promoted the formation of oligosaccharides with a higher degree of polymerization, and also polysaccharides with new type of glycosidic linkages, evidencing the occurrence of polymerization via non-enzymatic transglycosylation reactions induced by dry thermal treatment. The transglycosylation reactions induced by dry thermal treatment can occur between sugar residues from the same origin, but also of different origins, with formation of hybrid structures, containing arabinose and mannose in the case of the model compounds used. The results obtained from spent coffee grounds and instant coffee samples suggest the presence of hybrid polysaccharides in these processed coffee samples, corroborating the occurrence of transglycosylation during the roasting process. Furthermore, the study of mixtures containing different proportions of each model oligosaccharide, mimicking coffee bean regions with distinct polysaccharide composition, subjected to different periods of thermal treatment, allowed to infer that different hybrid and non-hybrid structures may be formed from arabinogalactans and galactomannans, depending on their distribution in the bean cell walls and on roasting conditions. These results may explain the heterogeneity of melanoidins structures formed during coffee roasting. The results obtained from model mixtures containing an oligosaccharide (Ara3 or Man3) and 5-CQA and subjected to dry thermal treatment, as well as samples derived from spent coffee grounds, showed the formation of hybrid compounds composed by CQA molecules covalently linked to a variable number of sugar residues. Moreover, the results obtained from the mixture containing Man3 and 5-CQA showed that CQA acts as catalyst of transglycosylation reactions. On the other hand, in the model mixtures containing a peptide, even if containing 5-CQA and subjected to the same treatment, it was observed a decrease in the extent of transglycosylation reactions. This outcome can explain the low extent of non-enzymatic transglycosylation reactions during roasting in coffee bean regions enriched in proteins, although polysaccharides are the major components of the coffee beans. The decrease of transglycosylation reactions in the presence of peptides/proteins can be related with the preferential reactivity of reducing residues with the amino groups of peptides/proteins by Maillard reaction, decreasing the number of reducing residues available to be directly involved in the transglycosylation reactions. In addition to the compounds already described, a diversity of other compounds were formed from model systems, namely dehydrated derivatives formed during dry thermal treatment. In conclusion, the identification of the structural modifications in coffee polysaccharides promoted by roasting pave the way to the understanding of the mechanisms of formation of melanoidins and structure-activity relationship of these compounds.

More difficulties are now expected in exploring economically valuable reservoirs because most reservoirs have been already developed since beginning seismic exploration of the subsurface. In order to efficiently analyze heterogeneous fine-scale properties in subsurface layers, one ongoing challenge is accurately upscaling fine-scale (high frequency) logging measurements to coarse-scale data, such as surface seismic images. In addition, numerically efficient modeling cannot use models defined on the scale of log data. At this point, we need an upscaling method replaces the small scale data with simple large scale models. However, numerous unavoidable uncertainties still exist in the upscaling process, and these problems have been an important emphasis in geophysics for years. Regarding upscaling problems, there are predictable or unpredictable uncertainties in upscaling processes; such as, an averaging method, an upscaling algorithm, analysis of results, and so forth. To minimize the uncertainties, a Bayesian framework could be a useful tool for providing the posterior information to give a better estimate for a chosen model with a conditional probability. In addition, the likelihood of a Bayesian framework plays an important role in quantifying misfits between the measured data and the calculated parameters. Therefore, Bayesian methodology can provide a good solution for quantification of uncertainties in upscaling. When analyzing many uncertainties in porosities, wave velocities, densities, and thicknesses of rocks through upscaling well log data, the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method is a potentially beneficial tool that uses randomly generated parameters with a Bayesian framework producing the posterior information. In addition, the method provides reliable model parameters to estimate economic values of hydrocarbon reservoirs, even though log data include numerous unknown factors due to geological heterogeneity. In this thesis, fine layered well log data from the North Sea were selected with a depth range of 1600m to 1740m for upscaling using an MCMC implementation. The results allow us to automatically identify important depths where interfaces should be located, along with quantitative estimates of uncertainty in data. Specifically, interfaces in the example are required near depths of 1,650m, 1,695m, 1,710m, and 1,725m. Therefore, the number and location of blocked layers can be effectively quantified in spite of uncertainties in upscaling log data.

Rock type is a key concept in modern reservoir characterization that straddles multiple scales and bridges multiple disciplines. Reservoir rock classification (or simply rock typing) has been recognized as one of the most effective description tools to facilitate large-scale reservoir modeling and simulation. This dissertation aims to integrate core data and well logs to enhance reservoir description by classifying reservoir rocks in a geologically and petrophysically consistent manner. The main objective is to develop scientific approaches for utilizing multi-physics rock data at different time and length scales to describe reservoir rock-fluid systems. Emphasis is placed on transferring physical understanding of rock types from limited ground-truthing core data to abundant well logs using fast log simulations in a multi-layered earth model. Bimodal log-normal pore-size distribution functions derived from mercury injection capillary pressure (MICP) data are first introduced to characterize complex pore systems in carbonate and tight-gas sandstone reservoirs. Six pore-system attributes are interpreted and integrated to define petrophysical orthogonality or dissimilarity between two pore systems of bimodal log-normal distributions. A simple three-dimensional (3D) cubic pore network model constrained by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and MICP data is developed to quantify fluid distributions and phase connectivity for predicting saturation-dependent relative permeability during two-phase drainage. There is rich petrophysical information in spatial fluid distributions resulting from vertical fluid flow on a geologic time scale and radial mud-filtrate invasion on a drilling time scale. Log attributes elicited by such fluid distributions are captured to quantify dynamic reservoir petrophysical properties and define reservoir flow capacity. A new rock classification workflow that reconciles reservoir saturation-height behavior and mud-filtrate for more accurate dynamic reservoir modeling is developed and verified in both clastic and carbonate fields. Rock types vary and mix at the sub-foot scale in heterogeneous reservoirs due to depositional control or diagenetic overprints. Conventional well logs are limited in their ability to probe the details of each individual bed or rock type as seen from outcrops or cores. A bottom-up Bayesian rock typing method is developed to efficiently test multiple working hypotheses against well logs to quantify uncertainty of rock types and their associated petrophysical properties in thinly bedded reservoirs. Concomitantly, a top-down reservoir description workflow is implemented to characterize intermixed or hybrid rock classes from flow-unit scale (or seismic scale) down to the pore scale based on a multi-scale orthogonal rock class decomposition approach. Correlations between petrophysical rock types and geological facies in reservoirs originating from deltaic and turbidite depositional systems are investigated in detail. Emphasis is placed on the cause-and-effect relationship between pore geometry and rock geological attributes such as grain size and bed thickness. Well log responses to those geological attributes and associated pore geometries are subjected to numerical log simulations. Sensitivity of various physical logs to petrophysical orthogonality between rock classes is investigated to identify the most diagnostic log attributes for log-based rock typing. Field cases of different reservoir types from various geological settings are used to verify the application of petrophysical rock classification to assist reservoir characterization, including facies interpretation, permeability prediction, saturation-height analysis, dynamic petrophysical modeling, uncertainty quantification, petrophysical upscaling, and production forecasting.<br>text

In 2007, the Barnett Shale in the Fort Worth basin of Texas produced 1.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) gas and ranked second in U.S gas production. Despite its importance, controls on Barnett Shale gas well performance are poorly understood. Regional and vertical variations of reservoir properties and their effects on well performances have not been assessed. Therefore, we conducted a study of Barnett Shale stratigraphy, petrophysics, and production, and we integrated these results to clarify the controls on well performance. Barnett Shale ranges from 50 to 1,100 ft thick; we divided the formation into 4 reservoir units that are significant to engineering decisions. All but Reservoir Unit 1 (the lower reservoir unit) are commonly perforated in gas wells. Reservoir Unit 1 appears to be clay-rich shale and ranges from 10 to 80 ft thick. Reservoir Unit 2 is laminated, siliceous mudstone and marly carbonate zone, 20 to 300 ft thick. Reservoir Unit 3 is composed of multiple, stacked, thin (~15-30 ft thick), upward coarsening sequences of brittle carbonate and siliceous units interbedded with ductile shales; thickness ranges from 0 to 500 ft. Reservoir Unit 4, the upper Barnett Shale is composed dominantly of shale interbedded with upward coarsening, laterally persistent, brittle/ductile sequences ranging from 0 to 100 ft thick. Gas production rates vary directly with Barnett Shale thermal maturity and structural setting. For the following five production regions that encompass most of the producing wells, Peak Monthly gas production from horizontal wells decreases as follows: Tier 1 (median production 60 MMcf) to Core Area to Parker County to Tier 2 West to Oil Zone-Montague County (median production 10 MMcf). The Peak Monthly oil production from horizontal wells is in the inverse order of gas production; median Peak Monthly oil production is 3,000 bbl in the Oil Zone-Montague County and zero in Tier 1. Generally, horizontal wells produce approximately twice as much oil and gas as vertical wells.This research clarifies regional variations of reservoir and geologic properties of the Barnett Shale. Result of these studies should assist operators with optimization of development strategies and gas recovery from the Barnett Shale.

碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>地球科學學系<br>103<br>Occurrence of gas hydrate has been found worldwide in the continental self, marginal seas and polar region. As interest in gas hydrate as a potential energy resource continues to grow, the need for accurate assessments of the amount gas stored in gas hydrate at the accumulation or basin scale becomes more important. Potential gas hydrates production are strongly dependent on a number of reservoir parameters, including the areal extent of the gas hydrate occurrence, reservoir thickness,reservoir porosity and the degree of gas hydrate and free gas saturation. The distribution and saturation of gas hydrate can be determined by seismic imaging and interpretations. Three most difficult reservoir parameters to be determined are the porosity, degree of gas hydrate and free gas saturation. The detailed hydrate bearing sediment properties are available through well logging or from experimental/lab analyses of hydrate samples. Well log processing for oil and gas reserves is customary but processing for gas hydrates becomes relatively advanced. In recent years, a growing number of deep sea drilling expeditions have been dedicated to locating marine gas hydrates and understanding the geologic controls on their occurrence. This has led to execution of gas hydrate research drilling and down hole logging programs. The purpose of this project is to review the responses of well logs to the presence of gas hydrates, at Mt. Elbert (ME), North Slope Alaska and Green Canyon (GC), Gulf of Mexico and carry out well log processing and analyses and interpretation. This is done by using the software package TechLog - Quanti. Evaluation is done by optimizing simultaneous equations between tools, response parameters and formation component volumes described by one or more interpretation models. The information consists of a set of tools, or equations; a set of formation components, or volumes, and a set of constraints. Implicitly response parameters and other global and model-specific parameters are derived from the log curves, background geological information, and confirmed using cross plots. At the Mt.Elbert gas hydrates production is identified at two stratigraphic sections bearing reservoir-quality sandstone between 2016-2060ft and 2136-2180ft .Both zones displayed gashydrate saturations with values between 60% and 75%. At Green Canyon Gulf Of Mexico three sites were drilled GC955-I, GC955-H, GC955-Q and thick gas-hydrate-filled sand reservoir section has been discovered within the depth interval of 1300~15fbsf. At GC955-Q Gulf Of Mexico gas hydrates bearing zones are identified as shaly sand zones between 1360-1400 fbsf and 1417-1427 fbsf with GH saturations with values varying between 20% to 70 % with occurrence of free gas . At GC955-H Gulf Of Mexico gas hydrates bearing zones are identified as mud rich zones with sand reservoirs between 1360-1440 fbsf , 1460-1469 fbsf and 1470-2186 and 1470-2186 with GH saturations varying between 70~80% with presence of Gas hydrates rich reservoirs.. The description of the existing well log evaluation techniques used to characterize porosities and water saturation in gas hydrate bearing reservoirs is also included in this project.

The SACROC unit is an isolated carbonate platform style of reservoir that typifies a peak icehouse system. Icehouse carbonate platforms are one of the least well understood and documented carbonate reservoir styles due to the reservoir heterogeneities they embody. The current study is an attempt to recognize carbonate rock types defined based on rock fabrics by integrating log and core based petrophysical analysis in high-frequency cycle (HFC) scale sequence stratigraphic framework and to improve our ability to understand static and dynamic petrophysical properties of these reservoir rock types, and there by, improve our understanding of heterogeneity in the middle early to late early Canyon (Canyon 2) high frequency sequence (HFS) in the Northern Platform of the SACROC Unit. Based on core descriptions, four different sub-tidal depositional facies were defined in the Canyon 2 HFS. Identified depositional facies were grouped into three different reservoir rock types in respect to their rock fabrics in order for the HFC scale petrophysical reservoir rock type characteristic analysis. Composed of succession of the identified reservoir rocks, twenty different HFCs were determined within the HFC scale sequence stratigraphic framework. The overall trend in the HFCs demonstrate systematic coarsening upward cycles with high reservoir quality at the cycle tops and low reservoir quality at the cycle bottoms. It was observed in terms of systems tracts described within the cycle scale frame work that the overall stacking pattern for high stand systems tracts (HST) and transgressive systems tracts (TST) is aggradational. And, the reservoir rocks representing the HST are more porous and permeable than those of TST. In addition to that, it was detected that the diagenetic overprint on the HST reservoir rocks is more than that of the TST. According to the overall petrophysical observations, the grain-dominated packstone deposited during HST was interpreted as the best reservoir rock. Upon well log analysis on the identified reservoir rocks, some specific log responses were attributed to the identified reservoir rocks as their characteristic log signatures.<br>text

3 ABSTRACT The work is focused on analysis of five structural well profiles penetrating sediments of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin and the underlying Upper Palaeozoic continental basins to the crystalline basement. The objectives of well profile analysis are sedimentary formation evaluation from well log analysis and statistical analysis and evaluation of some physical properties of sedimentary rocks, which have been determined by measurements of drill cores. The aim of the work is to verify the possibility of porosity evaluation from well log analysis in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin and the underlying Upper Palaeozoic continental basins. The next aim is to compare different geological environments with respect to physical properties of rocks. The content of the work involves presentation of well log curves, computation of porosity values and comparison between the resulting values of porosity from resistivity log, acoustic log and neutron-neutron log and from laboratory measurements of drill core samples. Data from five deep structural wells are used. Different geological environments were compared by statistical methods with respect to physical properties of rocks measured on well core samples from these five wells. Porosity evaluation from well log analysis is difficult but it is possible provided that...

Magister Scientiae - MSc<br>Pressure drop within a field can be attributed to several factors. Pressure drop occurs when fractional forces cause resistance to flowing fluid through a porous medium. In this thesis, the sciences of petrophysics and rock physics were employed to develop understanding of the physical processes that occurs in reservoirs. This study focussed on the physical properties of rock and fluid in order to provide understanding of the system and the mechanism controlling its behaviour. The change in production capacity of wells E-M 1, 2, 3, 4&5 prompted further research to find out why the there will be pressure drop from the suits of wells and which well was contributing to the drop in production pressure. The E-M wells are located in the Bredasdorp Basin and the reservoirs have trapping mechanisms of stratigraphical and structural systems in a moderate to good quality turbidite channel sandstone. The basin is predominantly an elongated north-west and south-east inherited channel from the synrift sub basin and was open to relatively free marine circulation. By the southwest the basin is enclose by southern Outeniqua basin and the Indian oceans. Sedimentation into the Bredasdorp basin thus occurred predominantly down the axis of the basin with main input direction from the west. Five wells were studied E-M1, E-M2, E-M3, E-M4, and E-M5 to identify which well is susceptible to flow within this group. Setting criteria for discriminator the result generated four well as meeting the criteria except for E-M1. The failure of E-M1 reservoir well interval was in consonant with result showed by evaluation from the log, pressure and rock physics analyses for E-M1.iv Various methods in rock physics were used to identify sediments and their conditions and by applying inverse modelling (elastic impedance) the interval properties were better reflected. Also elastic impedance proved to be an economical and quicker method in describing the lithology and depositional environment in the absence of seismic trace.

碩士<br>國防大學理工學院<br>電子工程碩士班<br>101<br>In this thesis, we analyze the detection performance of the long-wave infrared quantum well thermal imagers by utilizing the noise equivalent difference temperature (NEDT) theory and the thermal model construction to further optimize the detective quality. For thermal detection systems, several verification processes from design to production are essential to ensure the specification requirements and avoid the cost waste. Therefore, according to the verification results of each state, we control the parameters of thermal image systems to satisfy the specification requirements. In addition, optimizing the fabrication procedures implies the cost saving. The contributions of this thesis are described as follows. Firstly, we verify the availability of the NEDT formula for the normal environment by comparing the derivation with the measuring results from the single detector of the thermal imager. The first verification can provide a design principle to predict the reference NEDT of the completed thermal imager for system designers. Secondly, with the night vision thermal and image processing (NVThermIP) model, we verify that the modulation transfer function (MTF) significantly affects the detection precision of the minimum resolvable temperature difference (MRTD) for the completed thermal imager by comparing with the high related parameters, including basic parameters and three-dimensional noise. The second verification also interprets that combining MTF with NVTIP is more efficient to evaluate the detection precision than measuring the MRTD directly. Finally, we propose a quantization control thermal image platform (QCTIP) to optimize the quality of detection. Compared with observation adjustment thermal image platform (OATIP), our proposed QCTIP can achieve the lower temporal noise and lower spatial noise. Experiment results show that our proposed QCTIP can improve the temporal NEDT from 57 mK to 52 mK and the spatial NEDT from 55.8 mK to 49.2 mK, compared to the OATIP, respectively.

碩士<br>國防大學理工學院<br>光電工程碩士班<br>100<br>The purpose of the thesis is to predict target acquisition performances and laboratory validation of the 320x256 long-wave infrared QWIP thermal imaging systems developed in our laboratory. Before the hardware is developed, target acquisition performances will be conducted by using NVThermIP simulation software to ensure that the system characteristics will meet requirements of the tasks. After hardware is developed, we will conduct tests, including SiTF, NETD, 3D Noise, MTF and minimum resolvable temperature difference (MRTD) by using infrared measurement system. The MRTD which is obtained from the tests will be converted to ranges of detection, recognition and identification. In the end, the difference between simulations and tests will be compared and analyzed. Under the premises of atmospheric extinction coefficient equal to 0.2km -1 , the standard NATO target size equal to 2.3m*2.3m, the temperature difference is 2k, the simulations of detection, recognition and identification ranges are 3.68km, 1.2km and 0.6km, respectively. The measurement outcomes are 3.6km, 1.2km and 0.6km, respectively. The difference between the predicted detection range and laboratory measurement is less than 0.08km. There is no difference between predicted recognition range and laboratory measurement and between predicted identification range and laboratory measurement. The study results proven that the simulations of NVThermIP and laboratory measurements are consistent, which can be used for the evaluations of 320x256 long-wave infrared QWIP thermal imaging systems performance.

碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>地質學系<br>86<br>Most of the well log data are affected by the borehole diameter. It is difficult for an analyst to know whether the data variation is affected by the lithology or by the well caliper. This research adopts the statistical method to estimate correction coefficients for the caliper calibration based on the well log data from the I-Chu well of Chianan plain and the NTU well of Taipei Basin. The corrected well log data could provide a more precise interpretation about the subsurface geologic information. Furthermore, the study results pave the way to a general caliper calibration of well log data.

Oil companies need to evaluate the risk of annular fluid or gas migration if cement fails during the life of the well. Sustained casing pressure can lead to shutting in the wells to avoid health, safety, and environment (HSE) risks and government fines. To understand the long-term integrity of cement in high temperature and high pressure (HTHP) conditions and the mechanical properties that affect the ability of cements to seal fluids, this project used finite-element models (FEMs) to study the stress-causing phenomena. FEM analyses in ABAQUS version 6.11 were used to determine the potential of cement failure in oil wells. The model uses a 3D section of a well that can be used for different casing and formation types under different loading conditions. The model built in ABAQUS version 6.11 allows incorporating materials with nonlinear mechanical properties; it also uses FEM analysis to forecast fractures inside the cement under different loading scenarios like hydraulic fracture jobs or casing tests. The finite-element model included cases for cement cracking, cement debonding, and plastic deformation of the cement and rock that can generate loss of zonal isolation. Linear manner: set cements behave elastically until a failure criterion is reached, and then they can behave plastically. The FEM approach can reproduce stresses, strains, and volume changes in the material under different environmental HTHP conditions. Cemented wells have both tensile and compressive stresses that make some parts of the cement sheath experience fracture initiation, plastic deformation, or debonding. This dissertation provides a model that will help drillers design the set cement for long-term integrity in HPHT well conditions. The FEM predicts if the cement sheath can develop debonding, cracks or plastic deformations during the life of the well. The cement sheath needs to be designed for long-term zonal isolation to avoid interzonal communications, remedial costs and environmental problems related to cement seal. A CMS™-300 Automated Permeameter, a mechanical properties analyzer, HPHT cement consistometer, annular expansion molds, and tri-axial test equipment were used in this study to test cements for specific applications in three Colombian oil fields, including an oil field with in-situ combustion project.

BACKGROUND Rehabilitation therapies are effective for older persons in home-based settings, and have the potential to save money for the health system, while also improving the quality of life for older adults who may otherwise be hospitalized or institutionalized. Although there is evidence that home-based rehabilitation can improve functional outcomes in older adults, research has shown that many older home care clients do not receive the rehabilitation services they need. Despite the home care sector’s increasing importance within Ontario’s health care system, we have a limited understanding of the population that currently utilizes these services and how these services are allocated in the province. This dissertation project aims to enhance the understanding of this domain using a large provincial data repository of home care client information (RAI-HC information system). METHODS Using the Andersen-Newman Framework to guide this research from a conceptual standpoint, and combining it with the CRoss Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) as an organizational framework, this dissertation focuses on examining data collected on older long-stay home care clients. Prior to the data mining modeling procedures, knowledge of the rehabilitation services in home care was developed through a series of semi-structured interviews with key informants. The results of this qualitative study were then used to inform quantitative analyses that included creating rehabilitation service user profiles using the K-means clustering algorithm, and the development of predictive models of rehabilitation service provision using a Random forest algorithm and multilevel models. RESULTS Older home care clients who receive occupational therapy and physiotherapy in the Ontario Home Care System form a complex and heterogeneous client population. These services are often provided to clients following an acute event, yet many older adults who could benefit from therapy services for functional improvement and maintenance are not provided services due to limited resources. K-means clustering analyses resulted in the creation of seven profiles of rehab service users illustrating the multidimensional diversity of the service user population. Predictive models were able to identify client characteristics that are commonly associated with service provision. These models confirmed the large amount of regional variation found across the province and highlighted the differences between factors that lead to occupational therapy and physiotherapy service provision. CONCLUSIONS Using multiple methods to systematically examine rehabilitation services for long-stay clients, new insights into the current user population and the client characteristics related to service provision were obtained. Future research activities should focus on ways to use the regularly collected standardized data to identify older long-stay home care clients who would benefit most from the rehabilitation therapy services provided by the provincial home care system.

As a social worker practising in long-term residential care for people living with dementia, I am alarmed by discourses in the media and health policy that construct persons living with dementia and their health care needs as a threatening “rising tide” or crisis. I am particularly concerned about the material effects such dominant discourses, and the values they uphold, might have on the collective provision of care and support for our elderly citizens in the present neoliberal economic and political context of health care. To better understand how dominant discourses about dementia work at this time when Canada’s population is aging and the number of persons living with dementia is anticipated to increase, I have rooted my thesis in poststructural methodology. My research method is a discourse analysis, which draws on Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical concepts, to examine two contemporary health policy documents related to dementia care – one national and one provincial. I also incorporate some poetic representation – or found poetry – to write up my findings. While deconstructing and disrupting taken for granted dominant crisis discourses on dementia in health policy, my research also makes space for alternative constructions to support discursive and health policy possibilities in solidarity with persons living with dementia so that they may thrive.<br>Graduate<br>0452<br>0680<br>0351<br>macsuz@shaw.ca