Development and Production of Oil Reservoirs

Dear Colleagues,

The demand for fossil fuels continues to grow, despite the emergence of alternative energy sources. Recently, new opportunities and challenges have occurred in the development and production of oil reservoirs. For conventional reservoirs, there are some intractable problems such as high water cut, low sweep efficiency, and the corresponding difficulties in enhancing oil recovery. For unconventional reservoirs, low permeability, high heterogeneity, and complex fracture systems are the current obstacles to improving oil and gas recovery. However, the burning of fossil fuels causes a large amount of CO₂ emissions, a phenomenon which is not expected to continue in the following decades. In the context of the energy transition process, fossil fuel production must be performed in a more efficient and environmentally friendly manner. Confronted with these challenges, high-performance, cost-effective, and environmentally sustainable technologies and methods are drastically required to enhance oil production.

This Special Issue aims at advances in the novel technologies and methods for the development and production of oil and gas reservoirs with low-carbon emissions. These technologies should be capable of being deployed in both conventional and unconventional reservoirs. We invite a broad range of papers, including those on field practice, mathematical models, reservoir simulation methods, innovative methods of experiments, etc.

Topics for publication include, but are not limited to, as follows,

•  Novel material and technology to improve oil recovery;
•  Novel model and method to forecast reservoirs performance;
•  Novel technology for well drilling and completion;
•  Modeling and experiments of carbon storage in subsurface porous media.

Dr. Qingbang Meng
Dr. Bin Liang
Dr. Xiaocong Lyu
Dr. Yingrui Bai
Guest Editors

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