Advances in Reservoir Geology and Exploration and Exploitation
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 July 2025 | Viewed by 754
Special Issue Editors
2. State Key Laboratory of Continental Dynamics, Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an 710069, China
Interests: petroleum geology; oil and gas resource; numerical modeling; geopressuring; hydrocarbon migration and accumulation
Interests: sedimentology; analysis of basins and oil-bearing systems; unconventional petroleum geology
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2. Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources Research, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
Interests: geological modeling and numerical simulation of basin; oil and gas reservoir dynamics; unconventional oil and gas
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With petroleum exploration and development becoming deeper, tighter, and more inferior to oil and gas reservoirs, the geological problems and challenges faced by petroleum reservoir researchers are becoming increasingly prominent. Reservoir bed heterogeneity has become a key issue that must be addressed. Based on the understanding of reservoir heterogeneity and with the help of more advanced reservoir rock observation and mathematical modeling methods, reservoir geology research is carried out based on the geological theory and thinking methods of oil and gas migration and accumulation. The complex process of oil and gas accumulation under different environmental conditions is understood, and the methods of oil and gas migration and accumulation in heterogeneous reservoirs have been determined. This promotes the development of geological theory and description technology for oil and gas reservoir geology, and can better predict the distribution of various oil and gas accumulations, including unconventional, deeply buried, and lithological stratigraphic oil and gas reservoirs.
This Special Issue will publish high-quality original papers, with a particular focus on the progress of reservoir geology research from the perspectives of oil and gas migration and accumulation dynamics, as well as its applications in practical exploration and development.
- Heterogeneity characteristics of reservoirs and their diagenetic evolution process;
- Fault deformation mechanism, sealing, and fluid migration;
- Migration and accumulation of oil and gas in heterogeneous reservoir/carrier beds;
- Formation mechanism and oil and gas distribution of lithological and stratigraphic reservoirs;
- Unconventional oil and gas enrichment mechanisms and sweet-spot distribution.
Prof. Dr. Xiaorong Luo
Prof. Dr. Keyu Liu
Dr. Yuhong Lei
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- petroleum geology
- reservoir geology
- unconventional oil and gas
- numerical modeling
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