New Progress in Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 October 2025 | Viewed by 206
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydraulic fracturing models and experiments; microseismic and acoustic emission; low-frequency distributed acoustic sensing
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Interests: rock physics; rock failure mechanism; hydraulic fracturing; microseismic
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2. College of Marine Science and Technology, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Interests: pore structure characterization; fluid occurrence; water–rock interaction; nuclear magnetic resonance; unconventional oil/gas
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Interests: unconventional oil and gas; EOR; CO2 storage
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unconventional oil and gas, i.e., shale oil/gas, tight oil/gas, coalbed methane, natural gas hydrates, and geothermal energy, will play a key role in the future of energy as non-renewable conventional energy decreases. In recent years, the rapid implementation of advanced theories and techniques have promoted the development of unconventional oil and gas. These new technologies include horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and new enhanced oil recovery methods.
However, compared to conventional reservoirs, these unconventional systems have unique properties, i.e., low permeability (including a large number of nanopores), inter-particle pore networks with very poor connectivity, strong anisotropy in rock mechanics properties, and so on, which complicate the application of all the technologies. In the past decade, new digital core and numerical methods, multiscale-multiphysics experimental methods, models, and theoretical methods are being continuously constructed to optimize all techniques from the perspective of a new mechanism.
This Special Issue aims to bring together original research articles and review articles highlighting recent advances in various subjects addressing new numerical, experimental, and theoretical approaches to developing unconventional oil and gas. We sincerely invite prospective authors to submit high-quality original articles or reviews regarding new progress in unconventional oil and gas development.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Experimental studies of hydraulic fracturing;
- Numerical studies of hydraulic fracturing;
- Optimizations of fracturing technology;
- Monitoring methods of the fracture propagation process;
- Characterizations of multi-scale fractures;
- Multiscale and multiphase flows in unconventional reservoirs;
- Petrophysical models and experimental methods for unconventional reservoirs;
- Characterizations of rock mechanical properties for unconventional reservoirs;
- CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage) related to unconventional oil and gas development;
- New enhanced oil/gas recovery methods and mechanisms;
- Drilling, completion, and related reservoir damage and stimulations;
- Induced-risk assessments of reservoir development.
Dr. Shan Wu
Dr. Xiaoqiong Wang
Prof. Dr. Mianmo Meng
Dr. Junrong Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- shale gas and oil
- tight sandstone
- hydraulic fracturing
- EOR
- rock physics
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