New Challenges in Reservoir Geology and Petroleum Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2026 | Viewed by 5
Special Issue Editor
Interests: reservoir geomechanics; rock mechanics; well drilling
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Dear Colleagues,
Progress in petroleum engineering is being driven by different application trends, such as the global energy transition and the growing demand for complex reservoir development, along with equipment technologies including advanced reservoir detection tools and intelligent extraction equipment. This progress also brings new challenges to reservoir geomechanics and petroleum engineering, such as clarifying the complex mechanical mechanisms of unconventional reservoirs, revealing the response laws of rock mechanics, optimizing research on the rock drillability of PDC bits, and meeting the constraints of low-carbon development. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to introduce new ideas and experimental results in the field of reservoir geomechanics and petroleum engineering, covering aspects from design and theory to practical application.
Relevant fields related to reservoir geomechanics and petroleum engineering include, but are not limited to, the geomechanical analysis of complex reservoirs such as shale, deepwater, and high-temperature high-pressure reservoirs; research on rock mechanics properties; mechanical stability control during well drilling; testing and optimization technology for the rock drillability of PDC bits; unconventional oil and gas development technologies; the synergy between carbon capture and storage and petroleum engineering; the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in reservoir modeling; the processing of large-scale reservoir monitoring data from sources such as logging tools and scientific experiments; and deep learning-assisted hydrocarbon recovery optimization. Geomechanical reservoir models required for efficient exploitation, resource management technologies in the context of parallel and distributed systems for reservoir numerical simulation, energy-aware petroleum extraction technologies, and wellbore integrity and reservoir stability control technologies are also topics of interest in this Special Issue.
Prof. Dr. Xiangchao Shi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- reservoir geomechanics
- petroleum engineering
- complex reservoirs
- rock mechanics
- drilling mechanical stability
- unconventional oil and gas development
- carbon capture and storage
- artificial intelligence
- machine learning
- reservoir modeling
- reservoir monitoring data processing
- hydrocarbon recovery optimization
- reservoir numerical simulation
- energy-aware extraction
- wellbore integrity
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