Drilling Technologies for the Exploration and Exploitation of Deep Energy Resources
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Processes and Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 6
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Interests: drilling fluid and reservoir protection; numerical simulation patterns and schemes; fluid machine learning
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Dear Colleagues,
Energy and fuel are important supports for the modern economy. They form an important foundation for the survival and development of human society and play an indispensable role in promoting economic and social development. However, energy consumption has increased substantially, and traditional energy resources have been declining. At present, the contradiction between the increasing shortage of traditional petrochemical energy and the strong demand for energy from economic development is severe. Therefore, deep energy such as deep petroleum, shale gas, shale oil, and coalbed methane are important parts of realizing a modern multi-energy system with huge reserves. In order to further explore new theories and methods for the efficient exploration and development of deep energy resourcs, this Special Issue hopes to summarize the latest research to assist in the exploration and development of deep energy resources.
This Special Issue, titled “Drilling Technologies for the Exploration and Exploitation of Deep Energy Resources”, aims to cover novel advances in the above research or practice.
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Deep energy resource drilling;
- Shale gas exploration and development;
- Coalbed methane exploration and development;
- Shale oil exploration and development;
- Microseismic monitoring;
- Drilling fluid, completion fluid, and fracturing fluid;
- Hydraulic fracturing;
- Theory and methods about wellbore stability;
- Unconventional oil and gas development driven by artificial intelligence.
Dr. Xianyu Yang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- drilling
- deep energy resources
- shale gas
- coalbed methane
- shale oil
- drilling fluid and fracturing fluid
- microseismic monitoring
- experiments and numerical simulations
- artificial intelligence and machine learning
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