The Exploration and Development of Unconventional (Mainly Shale) Hydrocarbon Resources
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2023) | Viewed by 30159
Special Issue Editors
2. Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: unconventional resources; silicon enrichment; oil-gas accumulation; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction
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2. Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: unconventional resources; basin research
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2. Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: CO2 geological storage; reservoir geology; fluid–rock interaction
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2. Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: modeling and characterization of subsurface reservoirs; diagenesis analysis and simulation; digital rock physics; shale gas and oil
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The exploration and development of hydrocarbons (gas and oil) in unconventional reservoirs have attracted a great deal of attention due to their vast potential in these areas. Over the past two decades, the production of hydrocarbons from reservoirs with disparate depositional environments has rapidly increased in many countries (e.g., North America and China), due to the application of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, there are still many scientific issues that are implicated in the sustainable development of hydrocarbon resources, including the hydrocarbon accumulation mechanisms and models, hydrocarbon occurrence state, and hydrocarbon loss mechanism.
Therefore, the Journal of Processes announces a Special Issue on “The Exploration and Development of Unconventional (Mainly Shale) Hydrocarbon Resources”, in order to present the up-to-date advances in the theories and methodologies that are related to the accumulation mechanisms that exist in unconventional (mainly shale) reservoirs. This special issue will mainly focus on the underlying scientific issues that are related to the accumulation and depletion of hydrocarbon mechanisms in shale reservoirs, in an attempt to improve our fundamental understanding of these processes for the high single-well productivity and low-cost sustainable development of hydrocarbon.
Dr. Guoheng Liu
Dr. Jianhua Zhao
Dr. Xiaolong Sun
Dr. Yuqi Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- genesis and evolution of gas/oil and multiscale pores
- genetic and distribution patterns of fractures
- geological controls on reservoirs quality
- hydrocarbon accumulation/depletion mechanisms
- petrophysical characterization of formations
- fluid flow and fluid–shale interactions
- diagenesis analysis and simulation
- digital rock physics
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