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Beyond Carbon, LLC, officers have presented and published extensively on matters related to our services. Below is a listing of some of these publications and additional resources on CCUS.
Copies of these publications can be provided upon request. Some of the following works are available online. For more information, please contact us by filling out a contact form.
Published Works
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Integrated Aquifer Characterization and Modeling for Energy Sustainability - CRC PublishingReza Fassihi and J.P. Blangy 2023
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Improved Oil Recovery-SPE Monograph SeriesFassihi, M.R. and Kovscek, A. R. : Low-Energy Processes for Unconventional Oil recovery, 2017
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Improved Oil Recovery-SPE PapersSatman, A., Fassihi, M. R., Williams, R. L., Pettit, P., Grim, J., Ramey, H. J., Jr., and Brigham, W. E.: "Laboratory Combustion Tube Studies - Part 1," Stanford University Petroleum Research Institute (SUPRI) TR-7, June 1978. Fassihi, M. R., Satman, A., Williams, R.L., Pettit, P., Grim. A and Ramey, H. J., Jr.: "Laboratory Combustion Tube Studies Part 2," SUPRl TR-10, also report DOE/ET 120056-l0 Published by the Department of Energy (DOE), March, 1981. Satman, A., Soliman, M., Fassihi, M. R., Zulutukhin. A., Sanyal, S. K., Brigham, W. E. and Ramey, H. J., Jr.: "Experimental and Mathematical modeling of in-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery," paper presented at the First International Conference in the Future of Heavy Oil and Tar Sands, Edmonton. Canada. June 4- 12, 1979. Fassihi, M. R., Brigham, W. F. and Ramey, H. J., Jr., " Frontal Behavior of In-Situ Combustion," SPE 8907, paper presented at the 59th California Regional Meeting of SPE held in Los Angeles, CA, April 9-11, 1 980 Also appeared in SPEJ, August 1984, Vol.24, No. 4 under the title 'Reaction Kinetics of In Situ Combustion. Part 1 - Observation," pp.399-408. Fassihi, M. R. and Brigham. W. E.: “Investigation of Reactions Occurring in In Situ Combustion," paper presented at the 198(1 animal Heavy oil FOR Contractors Presentations, San Francisco, CA. July 22-24, 1981), also CONF-800750 published by DOE, September 1980. Fassihi, M. R., Brigham, W. E. and Ramey, H. J., Jr.: "The Reaction Kinetics of In-Situ Combustion," SPE 9454, paper presented at the 55th Annual Fall Meeting of SPE held in Dallas, TX, September 22-24, 1980. Also, appeared in SPEJ, August 1984, Vol.24, No.4, under the title "Reaction Kinetics of In Situ Combustion: Part 2-Modeling," pp.408-416. Fassihi, MR, Ramey, H.J., Jr., and Brigham, W.E.: "Laboratory Combustion Tube Studies-Final Report," SUPRI TR-22, also report published by DOE, August 1982. Fassihi, M. R.: "Analysis of Fuel Oxidation in In Situ Combustion Oil Recovery," Ph.D. dissertation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. April 1981, also D0E/ET112056-26, report published by DOE, August 1982. Fassihi, M. R. and Brigham, W.E.: ”Analysis of Reactions Occurring in In-Situ Combustion," paper presented at the 1981 Annual Heavy Oil/EOR Contractor Presentations, San Francisco, CA, published in CONF-810718, July 1981. Fassihi, M. R., Gobran, B. D., and Ramey, H. J., Jr.: "An Algorithm for Computing In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery Performance", DOE/ET12056-25, report published by DOE, October 1981. Also Oil and Gas Journal. November 16, 1981, pp.90-97. Fassihi, M. R., Abukhamsin, S., Brigham, W.E., Williams, L. A. and Graham, S. A.; "A Preliminary Study of In-Situ Combustion in Diatomites," SPE/DOE 10701, paper presented at the 1982 Symposium on Enhanced Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK, April 4-7, 1982. Fassihi, M. R. and Meyers, K. O.: “Thermal Alteration of Viscous Crude Oils,” SPE 14225 presented at the Annual SPE Fall Meeting, Las Vegas. NE, September 1985 published in SPE Res. Eng. (Aug.1990), PP 393-402. Fassihi, M. R., Meyers, K. 0 and Basile, P.F.: "Low Temperature Oxidation of Viscous Crude Oils," Paper SPE 15648 presented at the Annual SPE Tall Meeting, New Orleans, LA, October 5-8, 1986, published in SPE Res. Eng. Eng. (Nov. 1990), pp. 609-616. Yannimaras, D. V., Sufi, A. H. and Fassihi, M. R.: "The Case for Air Injection into Deep, Light Oil Reservoirs," Paper presented at the Sixth European Symposium on Improved Oil Recovery, held in Stavanger, May 21-23. 1991. Fassihi, M. R.: "Improved Phase Behavior Representation for Simulation of Thermal Recovery of Light Oils," SPE 24034 Presented at the 1992 SPE Western Regional meeting, held in Bakersfield, CA. Bokserman, A.A., Khismetsov, T.V., Bernstein, A.M., Mezentsev, A.M., Yannimaras, D.V. and Fassihi, M.R. : “ In Situ Oxidizing Processes and their application to the deposits with low viscosity oils and high formation temperatures,” paper presented at the XIII Gubkin Session on Practical Aspects of Oil and Gas Fields Integrated Development, Moscow (Dec. 5-7 1994). Javadpour, F.G. and Fassihi, M.R. : “Discussion of Effect of Asphaltene Deposition on the Vapex Process: A Preliminary Investigation Using Hele-Shaw Cell,” The Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology (Sep. 1995) pp 18-19. Fassihi, M.R. : “From South Belridge to West Hackberry – 40 Years of Progress in Air Injection,” SPE 29618 published in SPE Memorial Series, Vol. 1, “Henry J. Ramey Jr.” editor: M. Economides (1995). Fassihi, M.R., Gillham, T. H., Yannimaras, D.Y., and Hassan, D. : “Field tests assess novel air0injection EOR processes,” Oil & Gas J. (May 20, 1996) pp 69-72. Fassihi, M.R., Newbold, F., Belgrave, J. and Yannimaras, D.Y. : “Laboratory and Simulation Characterization of Light Oil Air Injection,” Paper published in In Situ Journal, Number 4, Volume 24 (2000), PP 219-249. Nourafza, P. R., Blunt, M. J., and Fassihi, M. R. : “Evaluation of Water and Gas Injection in a Carbonate Reservoir,” Paper SCA2004-A42 presented at the SCA Symposium held in Abudhabi (October 2004) . Fassihi, M.R., Turek, Edward, Honarpour, Matt, Peck, Doug and Fyfe, Rikki :” Laboratory Investigation of Permeability Impairment Caused by Asphaltene Precipitation During Screening for Gas-Injection Enhanced Oil Recovery and Pressure Change in a Major Gulf of Mexico Field”, SPE Journal, 2021. Fassihi, M.R. and Kovscek, Tony :” Pushing Oil Recovery Technical Limits For Liquids-Rich Shales,” paper presented at the 2021 EAGE IOR meeting in Austria. Fassihi, M. R., Alamatsaz, A., Moore, R. G. et al. 2022. A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part A: Experimental Observations. SPE Res Eval & Eng. SPE-212277-PA. Fassihi, M. R., Alamatsaz, A., Moore, R. G. et al. 2022. A Novel Approach in Understanding the Role of Water in Oxidation and Upgrading Reactions during In-Situ Combustion Oil Recovery, Part B: Interpretations. SPE Res Eval & Eng. SPE-212303-PA. https://doi.org/10.2118/212303-PA. Fassihi, M.R., Moore, R.G., Pereira Almao, P., Mehta, S.A., Ursenbach, M.G., and Mallory, D.G. 2023. New insights on catalysts-supported in situ upgrading of heavy oil during in situ combustion oil recovery. SPE 215092-MS paper presented at the 2023 SPE Annual Meeting held in San Antonio, TX. Fassihi, M.R. , Moore, Gordon., Pereira Almao, Pedro, Mehta, Raj, Ursenbach, Matt. 2023. Leveraging In Situ Upgrading Processes for Hydrogen Production. Presented at the CSCHE 2023 Technical Conference, Calgary, Canada. Fazleyeva, Rita; Fassihi, M. Reza; Mallory; Donald, Robert Gordon; Mehta, S.; Ursenbach, Matt, Cheremisin, Alexey, 2024. Experimental Investigation Of Air Flux Impact On Reactions Occurring During In-Situ Combustion In Dolomite Reservoirs – Implications for Air Injection Strategies. Paper SPE 218175-MS submitted for presentation at the 2024 IOR Symposium in Tulsa, OK.
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Reservoir Management and CharacterizationFassihi, M. R.: "Evaluation of an Analytical Technique for Estimating Swept Volume in Thermal Recovery Projects from pressure Falloff Tests," SPF/DOE 12657, paper presented at the 1984 symposium on Enhanced Oil Recovery, Tulsa, OK. April 15-18, 1984. Published in SPE Formation Evaluation, June 1988. pp. 449-458. Fassihi, M. R.: "New Correlations for Calculation of Vertical and Areal Sweep efficiencies," SPE Res. Eng., November 1986. pp. 604~606. Fassihi, M. R. and O'Brien, W. J "Program Predicts Waterflooding Performance," World Oil, April 1987, pp.77-80. Fassihi, M. R.: ''Estimation of Relative Permeability from Low Rate, Unsteady-State Tests -A Simulation Approach," Paper CIM 88-39-84 presented at the annual CIM Meeting held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, June 12, 1988. Published in J. of Can. Pet. Tech., May-June 1989, pp.29-38. Fassihi, M. R.: "Treatment of Transmissibilities When Modeling Symmetry Elements," J. of Pet. Sci. and Eng. (1993), pp. 267-271. Marjerrison, D. M. and Fassihi, M.R.: "A Procedure for scaling heavy Oil Combustion Tube Results to a Field Model" SPE 24175, paper presented at the 1992 SPL/DOE EOR meeting held in Tulsa, OK. Fassihi, M. R. and Gillham, T. H.: 'The Use of Air Injection to Improve the Double Displacement Process,' SPE 26374 published at the I 993 SPE Annual Meeting, held in Houston, TX, Oct. 3-6. Marjerrison, D. M. and Fassihi, M.R.: "Morgan Pressure Cycling in-Situ Combustion Project - Performance and Modeling," paper presented at the Seventh European Symposium on IOR held in Moscow, Russia, Oct. 27-29, l993. Published in the “New Developments in Improved Oil Recovery,” book edited by H.J. de Haan, Geological Society, Special Publication No. 84 (1995) pp. 275-287. Fassihi, M. R., V. Kumar, and Yannimaras, D. V.: "Case History and Appraisal of the Medicine Pole Hills Unit Air Injection Test," SPE 27792, paper presented at the 1994 SPE/DOE Meeting in Tulsa, OK, April 17-20. Published in SPE Res. Eng., (Aug. 1995) pp. 195-202. Fassihi, M. R., Yannimaras, D. V and V. Kumar: "Estimation of Recovery Factor in Light Oil Air Injection Projects," SPE 28733 paper presented at the 1994 SPE International Conf. And Exhibition of Mexico, held in Veracruz, Mexico (Oct. 10-13, 1994), Published in SPE Res. Eng. (Aug. 1997)pp 173-178. Fassihi, M. R., Yannimaras, D. V, Westfall , E. E., and Gillham, T. H. : “Economics of Air Injection Projects,” SPE 35393 paper presented at the 1996 SPE/DOE Tenth Symposium On IOR, Tulsa, OK (April 21-24). Fassihi, M.R., Blinten, J. and Riis, T.: “ Risk Management for Development of an Offshore Prospect,” SPE 51594 presented at the 1999 Hydrocarbon Economics and Evaluation Symposium, Dallas, TX (Mar. 20-23). Fassihi, M.R. and Potter, Gary, :”Analysis of Transient Data During Relative Permeability Measurement Using Steady State technique,” SPE 123676-PP paper presented at the 2009 Annual SPE Meeting, New Orleans, LA (Oct 2009). Zhang, Z. and Fassihi, M.R. : ”Uncertainty Analysis and Assisted History Matching Workflow in Shale Oil Reservoirs,” Paper URTec 1581398 presented at the 2013 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference held in Denver, Colorado (August 12-14). Fassihi, M. R., Moore, R. G., Mehta, S. A., & Ursenbach, M. G. (2015). “Safety Considerations for High-Pressure Air Injection Into Light-Oil Reservoirs and Performance of the Holt Sand Unit Project”, Society of Petroleum Engineers Production and Operation, doi:10.2118/169168-PA Zobeidi, K., Rasaei, M. R. and Fassihi, M.R. :” Simulation of the Experimental Results of Miscible Gravity Drainage Performance in a Stack of Matrix Blocks,” Journal of Porous Media, 18 (11): 1107-1118 (2015). Zobeidi, K., Fassihi, M.R. and Resaei, M.R. :” Description of the Results of Experiments on Developed Miscibility With Nonequilibrium Gas/Oil Gravity Drainage,” 178422-PA SPE Journal Paper – 2015. Heris, A.E., Narayanan, K., Isenmann, G., Fassihi, R. and Muralidharan, V., :”An Integrated Approach for Evaluating Reservoir Performance using Production Data – A Case Study from the Angostura Field in Trinidad and Tobago,” SPE 180892 paper presented at the 2016 SPE Trinidad and Tobago Section Energy Resources Conference to be held in Port of Spain, Trinidad, June 13-16. Marsden, J., Kostyleva, I., Fassihi, M. R., and Gringarten, A.C., :”A Conceptual Shale Gas Model Validated by Pressure and Rate Data From the Haynesville Shale,” SPE 187456, Paper presented at the 2017 ATCE Meeting, held in San Antonio, TX, 9-11 October. Marsden, J., Kostyleva, I., Fassihi, M.R. and Gringarten, A.C.,:”S Conceptual Model for Predicting Production From the Haynesville Shale,” Hydraulic Fracturing Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2: 17-24 (April, 2018)
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Learning and DevelopmentFassihi, M. R . :”Competency-based Training and Development,” SPE 96731 paper presented at the 2005 Annual SPE Meeting in Dallas, TX (Oct 9-12).
Additional Resources
Occasionally, below, we will provide links on matters related to in situ hydrogen generation or carbon capture, utilization, and storage.
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