http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32865 Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:08:06 GMT 2026-03-28T03:08:06Z http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33038 Title: Effectiveness of Electrokinetic EOR on Gas Condensate Banking Treatment—Proxy Modelling and Optimization Authors: Ikpeka, PM; Duru, UI; Onwukwe, S; Ohia, NP; Ugwu, J Abstract: Gas condensate banking can significantly reduce near-well gas productivity by as much as ~60% in tight gas reservoirs. Existing treatment techniques are resource demanding and could alter the reservoir structure permanently. This study investigates the effectiveness of enhanced electrokinetic oil recovery (EK-EOR) as a low-impact alternative for treating condensate banks. Using compositional reservoir simulation (CMG GEM), the influence of key reservoir and operational parameters—porosity, permeability, producer well location (i, j), injection rate, and injection pressure—on cumulative gas production (CGP) was examined. A Box–Behnken design of experiments was employed to generate 62 simulation runs, and a proxy model was developed to approximate full-field responses. Statistical validation showed strong model fidelity (R2 = 0.99, AAPE = 2.2%). The proxy was then optimized using a genetic algorithm (GA) to identify conditions that maximize gas recovery. Results indicate that lower injection rates and lower injection pressures maximize CGP through enhanced electro-osmotic flow and reduced water blocking, achieving a peak cumulative gas of 4.06 × 108 ft3. A secondary optimum at high injection pressure could be attributed to re-pressurization and partial re-vaporization of condensate near the wellbore. Reservoir quality also exerted a strong control: higher permeability and moderate porosity favoured gas yield, while optimal producer placement near the reservoir boundary increased drainage efficiency. This study demonstrates a systematic optimization framework combining design of experiments, proxy modelling, and evolutionary algorithms to evaluate EK-EOR performance. Description: Data Availability Statement: The data presented in this study are openly available in [https://doi.org/10.1002/ese3.70356]. Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33038 2026-03-18T00:00:00Z http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33030 Title: Where the dead refuse to sleep Authors: Kastrinou, M; Schäfers, M Abstract: Some topics come at CSSH like waves, and their comparative potential is too big for a single issue to hold. In 2024-2025, we received so many manuscripts about the social life of death that we could not group them fast enough. We placed them under a variety of rubrics, where they made perfectly good sense, but four of these essays had a special gravity. They seemed to be pulling toward each other across our production schedule. We’ve decided to create a special “Under the Rubric” – spanning issues 67/4 and 68/1 – to accommodate their palpable attraction. Consider this package a holiday gift, in four parts: Foroogh Farhang. Death of the Gharīb: A Window towards a Regional Understanding of Displacement in the Middle East. Comparative Studies in Society and History. 2025;67(4):761-784. Marlene Schäfers and Maria Kastrinou. Martyrs, Dreams, and Past Lives: Insurgent Immortality and the Expansive Logic of Debt. Comparative Studies in Society and History. FirstView. Lucie Ryzova. Portrait of a Martyr as a Young Man: Social Lives of Photographs in Revolutionary Egypt. Comparative Studies in Society and History. FirstView. Stephanie V. Love. The Archive of Displacement: Vernacular History and Urban Cemeteries in Oran, Algeria. Comparative Studies in Society and History. FirstView. The essays have much in common: they are set in the Middle East; they examine multiple aspects of martyrdom; they fix our attention on the fact that the dead are a living force in political struggles, in resistance; and they show how pervasively urban landscapes are shaped and re-shaped by the movement of the dead—their bodies, names, and our memories of them. Most of all, the essays explore how hard it is for us to let the dead go and to bury them finally in one place. It is hard, too, for the dead to ignore us. As our authors show, the living and dead endlessly interact in the liminal spaces they co-create. We invited Farhang, Schäfers, Kastrinou, Ryzova, and Love to read each other’s essays and respond. They chose to do so in letters. As you’ll see, the impact of their shared insights is deep and sometimes unexpected, but it carries the fortifying effect of a vigil or a memorial at graveside. Each author is fully aware that she writes in a time of genocide, state collapse, ruthless dispossession, and historical trauma. None writes exclusively about Palestine, but Gaza is the backdrop and brutal intensifier of all their arguments. Beneath the carnage of the moment, each paper connects to older motifs. The stranger. The icon. Graves. Spirits. Martyrs. Mourning. Reincarnation. Resurrection. Blessings and curses. Paradise. It is a rich assemblage of ideas. It generates a feeling of responsibility for the dead. We always ask you to read the articles before scrolling down. We do so again, this time hoping you will notice that something ineffable is swirling through these essays. Something barely named. Is it the moral challenge of the “gharib,” the stranger? Is it the “anti-power” of death? Can we, the living, know? Join us in thinking it through. Description: The essay by Kastrinou and Schäfers forms part of a blog post, 'Letters for the immortal dead: Foroogh Farhang, Marlene Schäfers, Maria Kastrinou, Lucie Ryzova, and Stephanie Love discuss intersections of life and death'. It was published online by Comparative Studies in Society and History at the University of Michigan under a CC BY license, excluding copyright in the images cited in the blog. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33030 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33010 Title: 'A Source of the Greatest Anxiety': Visions of a Channel Tunnel in 1880s Britain Authors: Carrol, A; Rothery, M Abstract: ... Description: ... Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/33010 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32986 Title: Re-evaluating the nature of Euroscepticism in border regions: Narratives of Europe in a European election year (Deliverable 3.2: Report on the results of interviews and focus groups) Authors: Sarmiento-Mirwaldt, K; Balogh, P; Boháč, A; Böhm, H; Bruyas, P; Miraka, O; Moll, Ł; Svensson, S; Wassenberg, B; Zágoršek, K Abstract: In this report, we present a narrative analysis of our original politician interview and citizen focus group data to investigate how borders are featured and narrated in European election campaigns, and how border region residents respond to border narratives in the broader frame of their perceptions of the European project. We use ‘structured narrative analysis’, whereby we seek out recurring narratives about borders. In this, we include both master narratives that were identified a priori, and narratives that emerge spontaneously from the bottom up. ... Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32986 2026-03-13T00:00:00Z