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18 August 2023

The Jurassic Yan’an Formation in the Ordos Basin is one of the main coal seams mined in the basin, and the enrichment of water bodies in the upper part of this coal seam is closely related to the sand bodies in the Zhiluo Formation. This study...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,432 Views
22 Pages

26 October 2022

In order to study the main control factors of volcanic reservoirs with complex oil–water relationships, the Carboniferous in the Chepaizi Uplift of the Junggar Basin was taken as an example and the lithofacies characteristics, main control fact...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,995 Views
16 Pages

24 March 2021

The glutenite reservoirs discovered in the Jiyang depression in Bohai Bay contribute greatly to proven oil and gas resources, which have reached 1.27 billion cubic meters. Both insufficient studies on the glutenite distribution and incomplete underst...

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  • Open Access
664 Views
19 Pages

18 March 2025

The Ya’nan sag has experienced more than 40 years of exploration, but only the Ya 13-1 large gas field has been found. In recent years, no oil or gas field has been found, and exploration work is difficult. To clarify the main controlling facto...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,186 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2023

Gas reservoir numerical simulation is an important method to optimize the development strategy of shale gas reservoirs which has been influenced by the multi-stage fracture. The regular fracture network model was used to build a conventional numerica...

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  • Open Access
1,356 Views
21 Pages

The Main Controlling Factors of Coalbed Methane Productivity Based on Reservoir Structure—A Case Study of the Jiaozuo Block

  • Chen Li,
  • Lichun Sun,
  • Zhigang Zhao,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Cunwu Wang,
  • Fen Liu,
  • Kai Du,
  • Silu Chen and
  • Yanjun Meng

13 January 2025

In the process of CBM development, the fracturing effect has always been a major controlling factor for CBM productivity. The coal fragmentation degree is a special geological feature in the process of CBM development and research, and other types of...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,825 Views
14 Pages

11 August 2023

The Nagqu area is in the northern part of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, and its average altitude is above 4000 m. Due to the area’s high altitude, there is relatively little information about its lakes. Therefore, to supplement the basic inf...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,073 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2023

Nearly 100 million tons of reserves have been explored in the Well 471 area of the Hongche Fault zone. The Carboniferous volcanic rock reservoir is the main oil-bearing reservoir in the well CH471 area and is the main target of exploration and develo...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,411 Views
20 Pages

18 June 2024

Shallow-water deltas serve as a critical area for the exploration and development of terrestrial lacustrine oil and gas reservoirs. Current research on oil and gas exploration and development in China’s terrestrial lacustrine basins primarily f...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,752 Views
20 Pages

21 November 2024

Hydraulic fracturing is a pivotal technique in the development of offshore unconventional reservoirs. While current research has primarily focused on the longitudinal or transverse roughness of fractures, this study shifts the emphasis to their three...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,742 Views
18 Pages

22 June 2023

As the relationship between the spatial distribution characteristics and physicochemical properties of nitrogen in lagoon soil and sediment is still unclear, we obtained and systematically analyzed soil and sediment samples from the surroundings of a...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,024 Views
23 Pages

21 November 2020

The Hong-Che Fault Zone is one of the important oil and gas enrichment zones in the Junggar Basin, especially in the Carboniferous. In recent five years, it has been proven that the Carboniferous volcanic rock has 140 million tons of oil reserves, an...

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  • Open Access
781 Views
26 Pages

30 October 2025

Karst collapse columns (KCCs) represent key concealed hazard-inducing factors that threaten the safety of coal mines in North China. To clarify their primary controlling geological factors and evolutionary processes, this study focuses on KCCs in the...

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  • Open Access
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23 Pages

The Main Control Factors and Productivity Evaluation Method of Stimulated Well Production Based on an Interpretable Machine Learning Model

  • Jin Li,
  • Huiqing Liu,
  • Lin Yan,
  • Zhiping Wang,
  • Hongliang Wang,
  • Shaojun Wang,
  • Xue Qin and
  • Hui Feng

21 January 2026

Low-permeability waterflooding reservoirs face numerous challenges, including low productivity per well, inadequate formation pressure maintenance, poor waterflood response, and low water injection utilization efficiency. Illustrated by Bai 153 Block...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,976 Views
24 Pages

4 February 2021

Because the first-weighting of a main roof with a large mining height has obvious sudden characteristics and is more severe, which causes large-scale support crushing and has a great impact on the ecological environment of the mining area, it is nece...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,035 Views
16 Pages

15 March 2023

Soil organic matter (SOM) is an important component of soil and plays an important role in improving the soil’s physical and chemical properties. Ascertaining the spatial distribution of soil organic matter and its main controlling factors in t...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,844 Views
29 Pages

Response of Vegetation Coverage to Climate Changes in the Qinling-Daba Mountains of China

  • Han Ren,
  • Chaonan Chen,
  • Yanhong Li,
  • Wenbo Zhu,
  • Lijuan Zhang,
  • Liyuan Wang and
  • Lianqi Zhu

19 February 2023

As a major component of the north–south transition zone in China, the vegetation ecosystem of the Qinling-Daba Mountains (QBM) is highly sensitive to climate change. However, the impact of sunshine duration, specifically, on regional vegetation...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,263 Views
19 Pages

20 May 2022

No systematic comparative study has been conducted on the factors controlling organic matter enrichment in the different depositional environments of the Lower Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation in the western Middle Yangtze Block, leading to a large disc...

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  • Open Access
706 Views
21 Pages

Evaluation of Pore-Fracture Structures and Gas Content in Deep Coal Reservoir of Yan’an Gas Field, Ordos Basin

  • Zhenchuan Wang,
  • Yongping Wan,
  • Hongtao Gao,
  • Jinlan Fan,
  • Shan Li and
  • Liang Qiao

13 April 2025

Research has delved into the main controlling factors for the evolution of the pore-fracture structure in deep coal samples. The gas content is influenced by multiple factors, among which the pore-fracture structure in deep coal samples stands as one...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,853 Views
22 Pages

28 December 2023

This study comparatively analyzed the geological, geochemical, reservoir, and gas-bearing characteristics of the lower Cambrian marine shale in the Middle and Lower Yangtze regions. The main factors controlling the gas-bearing properties of the shale...

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  • Open Access
388 Views
32 Pages

16 December 2025

Roof water inrush is a major hazard threatening coal mine safety. This paper addresses the risk of roof water inrush during mining in the shallow-buried Jurassic coalfield of Northern Shaanxi, taking the Guojiawan Coal Mine as a case study. A systema...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,655 Views
19 Pages

Application of Machine Learning for Shale Oil and Gas “Sweet Spots” Prediction

  • Hongjun Wang,
  • Zekun Guo,
  • Xiangwen Kong,
  • Xinshun Zhang,
  • Ping Wang and
  • Yunpeng Shan

2 May 2024

With the continuous improvement of shale oil and gas recovery technologies and achievements, a large amount of geological information and data have been accumulated for the description of shale reservoirs, and it has become possible to use machine le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,375 Views
15 Pages

Frac-Hit Prevention Countermeasures in Shale Gas Reservoirs with Natural Fractures

  • Hualei Xu,
  • Houshun Jiang,
  • Jie Wang,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Kangjia Zhao and
  • Liangjun Zhang

21 August 2023

The development of natural fractures (NFs) in shale gas reservoirs is conducive to improving the productivity of shale gas wells. However, NF development leads to high-frequency frac hits between the infill and parent wells, which critically restrict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,337 Views
13 Pages

25 August 2022

The estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) of shale gas is an important index for evaluating the production capacity of horizontal wells. The Weiyuan shale gas field has wells with considerable EUR differentiation, which hinders the prediction of the prod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,642 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2024

Reliable forecasting of unconventional oil and gas well production has consistently been a hot and challenging issue. Most existing data-driven production forecasting models rely solely on a single methodology, with the application effects of other m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,319 Views
15 Pages

Sedimentary Paleoenvironment and Organic Matter Enrichment of the Ying 4 Member in the Southern Shuangcheng Area, Songliao Basin

  • Lidong Shi,
  • Xuntao Yu,
  • Jiapeng Yuan,
  • Jinshuang Xu,
  • Liang Yang,
  • Lidong Sun,
  • Guozheng Li,
  • Ying Zhang,
  • Dan Chen and
  • Guangwei Li

14 November 2024

Based on organic carbon content measurement, kerogen microscopic examination, and the analysis of source rock maturity and major/trace elements, this study restores the sedimentary paleoenvironment of the Ying 4 Member in the southern Shuangcheng are...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,753 Views
16 Pages

5 March 2018

Critical mining under buildings, railways, and water bodies (BRW) brings the contradiction between high recovery rate and minor environmental hazards. To lessen this contradiction, an innovative mining method referred to as “wide strip backfill minin...

  • Technical Note
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6 Citations
2,195 Views
14 Pages

13 October 2023

Accurately mapping the spatial distribution and variation of soil organic matter (SOM) is of great significance for guiding regional soil management. However, the applicability and prediction performance of machine learning techniques in dryland agro...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,359 Views
23 Pages

Numerical Investigation on Influence of Two Combined Faults and Its Structure Features on Rock Burst Mechanism

  • Anye Cao,
  • Yaoqi Liu,
  • Siqi Jiang,
  • Qi Hao,
  • Yujie Peng,
  • Xianxi Bai and
  • Xu Yang

19 December 2021

With the increase in coal mining depth, engineering geological conditions and the stress environment become more complex. Many rock bursts triggered by two combined faults have been observed in China, but the mechanism is not understood clearly. The...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,412 Views
26 Pages

22 October 2024

China boasts significant reserves of low-permeability oil reservoirs, and the economic and efficient development of these reservoirs plays a crucial role in enhancing oil and gas production. However, the “difficult injection and difficult recov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,449 Views
17 Pages

12 September 2023

The Chang 7 shale oil reservoir has low natural energy and is both tight and highly heterogeneous, resulting in significant remaining oil after depletion development. CO2 huff and puff (huff-n-puff) is an effective way to take over from depletion dev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,545 Views
16 Pages

Research on the Multifactor Synergistic Corrosion of N80 and P110 Steel Tubing in Shale Gas Wells in Sichuan Basin

  • Yufei Li,
  • Dajiang Zhu,
  • Jian Yang,
  • Qiang Liu,
  • Lin Zhang,
  • Linfeng Lu,
  • Xiangkang Liu and
  • Shuai Wang

30 April 2024

We aimed to investigate the corrosion patterns and the main controlling factors of N80 steel and P110 steel tubing under different sections. Conducting weight loss corrosion experiments for 168 h using high-temperature and high-pressure autoclaves to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,832 Views
15 Pages

19 November 2022

To investigate the characteristics of grape transpiration water consumption and its environmental coupling mechanism in a greenhouse growing environment in cold areas of Northeast China, the dynamic monitoring of greenhouse grape sap flow and microen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
277 Views
17 Pages

The switching action of the main circuit breaker of the train will produce switching overvoltage. In order to suppress the switching overvoltage, the phase selection control of the circuit breaker is required. However, the mechanical structure of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,509 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2024

Heterogeneous composite flooding has performed well with regard to enhanced oil recovery after polymer flooding in recent years. In order to significantly increase oil recovery, the development parameters should be designed differently for each well....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,526 Views
21 Pages

23 October 2024

Tight sandstone reservoirs, despite their low porosity and permeability, present considerable exploration potential as unconventional hydrocarbon resources. Natural fractures play a crucial role in hydrocarbon migration, accumulation, and present eng...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,496 Views
29 Pages

15 July 2022

Fine dissection of microscopic pore structure variations between the Niutitang Formation and the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation will help to improve the understanding of the underlying geological theory of shale gas in northern Guizhou Province. The strat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
909 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2025

For lacustrine shale oil and gas reservoirs with coexisting hydrocarbon fluid properties, evaluating the adsorption capacity of shale is of significant importance for the exploration of lacustrine shale oil and gas. Taking the lacustrine shale from t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,893 Views
24 Pages

Front Movement and Sweeping Rules of CO2 Flooding under Different Oil Displacement Patterns

  • Xiang Qi,
  • Tiyao Zhou,
  • Weifeng Lyu,
  • Dongbo He,
  • Yingying Sun,
  • Meng Du,
  • Mingyuan Wang and
  • Zheng Li

19 December 2023

CO2 flooding is a pivotal technique for significantly enhancing oil recovery in low-permeability reservoirs. The movement and sweeping rules at the front of CO2 flooding play a critical role in oil recovery; yet, a comprehensive quantitative analysis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,011 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Caprock Sealing Performance for CO2 Saline Aquifer Storage: A Numerical Study

  • Xiaohan Shu,
  • Lijun Zhang,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Xiabin Wang,
  • Xiaofeng Tian and
  • Lingdong Meng

16 August 2024

The integrity of caprock sealing is a crucial factor in guaranteeing the safety and long-term feasibility of CO2 saline aquifer storage. In this study, we identified three principal mechanisms that give rise to topseal failure: (1) gradual CO2 seepag...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,905 Views
22 Pages

The Carbonate Platform Model and Reservoirs’ Origins of the Callovian-Oxfordian Stage in the Amu Darya Basin, Turkmenistan

  • Wenli Xu,
  • Huaguo Wen,
  • Rongcai Zheng,
  • Fengjie Li,
  • Fei Huo,
  • Mingcai Hou and
  • Gang Zhou

4 February 2018

The Calloviane-Oxfordian carbonates in the northeastern Amu Darya Basin of southeastern Turkmenistan are composed of medium- to thick-bedded, mostly grainy limestones with various skeletal (bivalves, brachiopods, echinoderms, foraminifera, corals, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
698 Views
15 Pages

5 September 2025

Coalbed methane (CBM) resources hold broad development prospects in China, with deep CBM reservoirs increasingly becoming a focal point for exploration. However, compared to shallow CBM, the factors influencing the productivity of deep CBM are more c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,445 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2023

The main flow migration in the middle Yangtze River occurs in most river sections and is affected by factors such as incoming water and sediment, riverbed boundaries, and channel shapes, leading to a complex riverbed evolution. Revealing the controll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,365 Views
15 Pages

19 October 2021

Badain Jaran Desert, the coexistence of dunes and lakes, and the presence of the world’s tallest dunes, has attracted worldwide attention among hydrologists. Freshwater, brackish, and saline lakes coexistence in the Badain Jaran Desert under extremel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,946 Views
19 Pages

23 November 2021

The characteristics of shale micro-pore development and its main influencing factors have important theoretical guiding significance for shale gas exploration and resource evaluation. In order to clarify the micro-pore development characteristics of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,914 Views
17 Pages

Taking Tai Lake in China as the research area, a 3D water environment mathematical model was built. Combined with the LHS and Morris uncertainty and sensitivity analysis methods, the uncertainty and sensitivity analysis of total phosphorus (TP), tota...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,811 Views
16 Pages

9 February 2023

Cambrian age strata are the critical development and research stratum series of oil and gas reserves in the Tarim Basin, which contains rich oil and gas resources. The restoration of the Cambrian carbonate platform conversion and the main control fac...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,811 Views
22 Pages

The Main Controlling Factors of the Cambrian Ultra-Deep Dolomite Reservoir in the Tarim Basin

  • Kehui Zhang,
  • Xuelian You,
  • Tianyi Ma,
  • Jia Wang,
  • Yifen Wu,
  • Yi Lu and
  • Shaoqi Zhang

30 July 2024

The genesis of deep-to-ultra-deep dolomite reservoirs in the Tarim Basin is crucial for exploration and development. The Cambrian subsalt dolomite reservoirs in the Tarim Basin are widely distributed, marking significant prospects for ultra-deep rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,290 Views
16 Pages

8 December 2024

(1) This paper selects the modern delta formed by the Ganjiang tributary in Poyang Lake. By performing high density statistical analysis of distribution channel parameters in the area using satellite images and geographic information processing softw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,865 Views
33 Pages

18 February 2021

Nanoscale pore structure characteristics and their main controlling factors are key elements affecting the gas storage capacity, permeability, and the accumulation mechanism of shale. A multidisciplinary analytical program was applied to quantify the...

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