Oil and Gas Drilling Processes: Control and Optimization, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 25
Special Issue Editors
Interests: formation evaluation; rock mechanics; multiphase flow; experimental study
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Interests: petroleum engineering; rock mechanics; coupled THMC behaviors in gas hydrate reservoirs
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Interests: MWD and LWD; experimental study; numerical study; rock strength
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This is the second edition of the Special Issue, following the success of the first edition, where more than ten papers were collected. Furter details can be found here:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes/special_issues/8BK21Z0PK8.
Successful drilling and completion are key to efficient oil and gas production in hydrocarbon-bearing reservoirs. The reliable and accurate characterization of fluid flow within wellbores and the mechanical behaviors of rocks associated with drilling and completion are crucial in this process. The use of numerical modeling, simulation, experimental methods, and field data analysis is also of great significance.
This Special Issue, entitled “Oil and Gas Drilling Processes: Control and Optimization, 2nd Edition”, will curate novel or practical advances in research on the use of numerical, experimental, analytical, and field studies related to drilling processes. The studies of rock mechanics, fluid mechanics, and parameter optimization are all linked.
Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The development of numerical or analytical methods for fluid mechanics and rock mechanics-related behaviors during drilling and production;
- The development of experimental methods related to fluid mechanics and rock mechanics in drilling;
- Numerical and/or experimental methods in the characterization of multiphase flow in wellbores during drilling, completion, or production;
- Formation evaluation techniques related to control and optimization during drilling and production.
Prof. Dr. Rui Deng
Dr. Xuyang Guo
Dr. Meng Chen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- drilling
- completion
- rock mechanics
- multiphase flow
- well log
- formation evaluation
- MWD and LWD
- experimental study
- numerical study
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