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Advanced Research on Marine and Deep Oil & Gas Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 4868

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Jianbo Zhang

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School of Petroleum Engineering, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, China
Interests: multiphase flow in gas storage wellbore; multiphase flow control technology for gas storage wellbore; flow characterization in micropores
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Dr. Xiaohui Sun

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College of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao, China
Interests: multiphase flow intelligent simulation; wellbore pressure control; deep learning algorithm; intelligent development of oil and gas fields
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Dr. Wenqiang Lou

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School of Petroleum Engineering, Yangtze University, Wuhan, China
Interests: multiphase flow in wellbore; wellbore pressure control; drilling hydraulics; intelligent drilling monitoring
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Oil and gas resources are important pillars for the sustainable development of human society and its economy. Marine and deep strata contain abundant oil and gas resources, and much oil and gas reserves in marine and deep strata have been newly discovered in recent years. With the rapid development of the global economy's energy demand, oil and gas development is accelerating its pace towards marine and deep strata. However, the environment and formation conditions in marine and deep strata are complex, and along with many unknown factors, pose significant challenges in the development of oil and gas resources. Specific directions include efficient drilling, pressure control, flow assurance, efficient production increase, intelligence development, and environmental safety. The lack of oil and gas development technology in marine and deep strata is an important factor limiting a country's economic development, especially in countries with limited oil and gas resources. Therefore, it is necessary to establish safe and efficient oil and gas development technologies for marine and deep strata to provide support for sustainable global economic development and energy security.

This Special Issue explores oil and gas development technologies in marine and deep strata, with a focus on the roles of new theories, advanced methods, important technology, classic cases, and policy recommendations. This Special Issue calls for active submissions from researchers in different disciplines, providing valuable guidance for the safe and efficient development of marine and deep strata oil and gas.

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Dr. Jianbo Zhang
Dr. Xiaohui Sun
Dr. Wenqiang Lou
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Keywords

  • oil and gas development
  • marine
  • deep strata
  • drilling
  • multiphase flow
  • flow assurance
  • pressure control
  • production increase
  • intelligence development
  • environmental safety

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Advanced Work Packaging (AWP): Implementation and Challenges in the Malaysian Oil and Gas Sector
by Muhammad Ali Musarat, Wesam Salah Alaloul, Mohd Al-Azahary bin Abdullah Sani and Ng Wei Chong
Sustainability 2024, 16(23), 10234; https://doi.org/10.3390/su162310234 - 22 Nov 2024
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Advanced work packaging (AWP) is a new strategy for enhanced project delivery in the oil and gas sector and has proven to be effective and efficient. However, not all the stakeholders are fully aware of the guidelines and implementation approaches. On this basis, [...] Read more.
Advanced work packaging (AWP) is a new strategy for enhanced project delivery in the oil and gas sector and has proven to be effective and efficient. However, not all the stakeholders are fully aware of the guidelines and implementation approaches. On this basis, this work focused on the implementation and challenges that are faced by the stakeholders of the oil and gas sector in Malaysia. Accordingly, a semi-structured interview was conducted with the field experts prior to the development of the questionnaire, which was distributed amongst the companies working in oil and gas following a mixed method. Analytical results showed that the majority of the respondents have heard about the AWP, but they have limited knowledge of its implementation. The foremost challenges that were highlighted are the ‘lack of AWP management knowledge’, ‘risk of miscommunication’, and ‘late/incorrect front-end deliverables’, which require vital attention. Therefore, a conceptual framework has been developed based on the top-ranked factors that will work as a guideline for the industrial stakeholders to understand and implement AWP in a better manner. This study will also help government institutions to foresee where the oil and gas industry is standing at the moment and what reforms are required to boost project delivery. In addition, the outcome is not only applicable in Malaysia but also to other ASEAN countries having similar practises in the oil and gas industry. Full article
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Production Simulation of Stimulated Reservoir Volume in Gas Hydrate Formation with Three-Dimensional Embedded Discrete Fracture Model
by Jianchun Xu, Yan Liu and Wei Sun
Sustainability 2024, 16(22), 9803; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16229803 - 10 Nov 2024
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Natural gas hydrates (NGHs) in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea are deposited in low-permeability clayey silt sediments. As a renewable energy source with such a low carbon emission, the exploitation and recovery rate of NGH make it difficult to meet [...] Read more.
Natural gas hydrates (NGHs) in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea are deposited in low-permeability clayey silt sediments. As a renewable energy source with such a low carbon emission, the exploitation and recovery rate of NGH make it difficult to meet industrial requirements using existing development strategies. Research into an economically rewarding method of gas hydrate development is important for sustainable energy development. Hydraulic fracturing is an effective stimulation technique to improve the fluid conductivity. In this paper, an efficient three-dimensional embedded discrete fracture model is developed to investigate the production simulation of hydraulically fractured gas hydrate reservoirs considering the stimulated reservoir volume (SRV). The proposed model is applied to a hydraulically fractured production evaluation of vertical wells, horizontal wells, and complex structural wells. To verify the feasibility of the method, three test cases are established for different well types as well as different fractures. The effects of fracture position, fracture conductivity, fracture half-length, and stimulated reservoir volume size on gas production are presented. The results show that the production enhancement in multi-stage fractured horizontal wells is obvious compared to that of vertical wells, while spiral multilateral wells are less sensitive to fractures due to the distribution of wellbore branches and perforation points. Appropriate stimulated reservoir volume size can obtain high gas production and production efficiency. Full article
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Fractional Flow Analysis of Foam Displacement in Tight Porous Media with Quasi-Static Pore Network Modeling and Core-Flooding Experiments
by Jun Yang, Iftekhar Ahmed Shakib, Zeyu Lin, Yunan Song, Yanfeng He, Bo Zhang and Jing Zhao
Sustainability 2024, 16(21), 9250; https://doi.org/10.3390/su16219250 - 24 Oct 2024
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Fractional flow analysis is an efficient tool to evaluate the gas-trapping performance of foam in porous media. The pore-scale simulation study and the core-scale experimental work have been bridged via the fractional flow analysis to distinguish the characteristics of foam displacement inside the [...] Read more.
Fractional flow analysis is an efficient tool to evaluate the gas-trapping performance of foam in porous media. The pore-scale simulation study and the core-scale experimental work have been bridged via the fractional flow analysis to distinguish the characteristics of foam displacement inside the tight porous media with varying absolute permeability, injection rate, and foam quality. In this work, the combined investigation suggests that conventional foam-enhancing strategies, pursuing higher foam quality and stronger foam regime, are inefficient and restricted in tight reservoirs that the critical Sw corresponding to the limiting capillary pressure has increased around 37~43%, which indicates severely weakened gas-trapping capacity as permeability reduces one order of magnitude. The moderate mobility adjustment and corresponding optimized fluid injectivity exerting from the “weak foam” flow presents a staged decline feature of decreasing water fractional flow, which implies the existence of the delayed gas-trapping phenomenon when water saturation reduces to 0.5~0.6. The finding has supported the engineering ideal of promoting low-tension gas (LTG) drive processes as a potential solution to assist field gas injection applications suffering from gas channeling. Also, the validation with core-flooding experimental results has revealed several defects of the current pore network model of foam displacement in tight porous media, including exaggerated gas trapping and overestimated confining water saturation. This study has innovatively demonstrated the feasibility and potential of optimizing the foam performance of gas trapping and mobility control in tight reservoirs, which provides a clue that may eventually boost the efficiency of the gas injection process in enhanced oil recovery or CO2 sequestration projects. Full article
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