New Advances in Low-Energy Processes for Geo-Energy Development: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: enhanced oil and gas recovery
Interests: enhanced oil and gas recovery
Interests: oilfield chemistry, plugging theory and technology, low-energy processes for oil and gas recovery
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Dear Colleagues,
The trajectory of industrialization is tightly correlated with geo-energy. Academics place a high value on all kinds of cutting-edge studies. Every breakthrough, whether theoretical or in engineering, has the potential to significantly advance society. This Special Issue seeks frontier and innovative research on the low-energy development of geo-energy resources. Several research studies are presently being conducted on EOR flooding materials, such as polymer, CO2, air, steam and composite methods. Additionally, the study of some low-energy and promising heating reservoir technologies, such as nuclear energy, solar energy, in situ upgrading, and electromagnetic heating, has also gradually increased. Of course, with the continuous innovations in computer and information technology, numerical simulation technology and big data analysis methods also play pivotal roles in the development of high-efficiency and low-energy geological energy.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the most recent advances related to the new advances in low-energy processes for geo-energy development.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Intelligent well technologies;
- New technologies in ROP improvement;
- New technologies in cold production;
- New technologies in waterflooding for geo-energy resources development;
- New technologies in polymer flooding;
- New technologies in emulsion flooding;
- New technologies in enhanced CO2 injection;
- New technologies in enhanced air injection;
- New technologies in enhanced steam injection;
- New technologies in heating geo-energy reservoirs;
- New technologies in geo-energy reservoir simulation;
- Low-energy processes for shale oil recovery;
- Low-energy processes for tight oil recovery.
Dr. Qingyuan Chen
Prof. Dr. Yibo Li
Dr. Daoyi Zhu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- low-energy processes
- intelligent well technologies
- cold production
- cold-enhanced geo-energy recovery
- thermal-enhanced geo-energy recovery
- enhanced gas injection
- enhanced steam injection
- reservoir simulation of geo-energy
- shale oil
- tight oil
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