Advances in Drilling and Excavation Theories and Technologies for Petroleum, Coal Seam and Sustainable Resources
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 23 June 2026 | Viewed by 149
Special Issue Editors
Interests: intelligent drilling; reservoir characterization; geological modeling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The recovery of traditional energy and sustainable energy plays a significant role in supporting the daily life of human beings. Improving drilling and excavation theories and technologies could greatly reduce costs, as well as increase efficiency and safety. Novel drilling and excavation processes of energy and resources, and original physical and artificial intelligent models, are of high interest as they offer more accurate, efficient, and adaptive solutions to complex problems.
This Special Issue, entitled “Advances in Drilling and Excavation Theories and Technologies for Petroleum, Coal Seam and Sustainable Resources”, seeks the submission of high-quality contributions focusing on innovative research findings that enhance the recovery of energy resources, including experiments, physical and artificial intelligent model applications, and field practices related to the drilling and excavation of petroleum, coal seam, and sustainable resources. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel well trajectory design and control, drilling operation, and wellbore stability methods;
- Enhanced interpretation models for downwhole sensing data;
- High efficiency method and technology of increasing permeability of prorous media;
- Numerical simulation of physical behaviour of fluid flow and geomechanics in reservoir or coal seam;
- Advanced data physics, predictive analytics, and machine learning models for intelligent drilling;
- Multi-use wells from hydrocarbon production to geothermal energy or carbon storage.
Dr. Zhihui Ye
Prof. Dr. Tongqiang Xia
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- well trajectory design
- drilling operation
- coal seam excavation
- wellbore stability
- fluid flow in porous media
- permeability evolution
- machine learning model
- geothermal energy
- carbon sequestration and storage
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