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5 Citations
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29 December 2021

Carbonate sediments are susceptible to many factors, such as paleostructure, diagenesis, and strong microbial alteration; as such, their sedimentary architecture still calls for further research. In this study, the reef and shoal bodies in the XVm an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,260 Views
18 Pages

24 December 2023

The lack of research on fine reservoir structure and sand body patterns in the Jidong Oilfield currently restricts the efficient development of the oilfield. Therefore, this article mainly focuses on the study of the main types of facies of the Shahe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,765 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2023

The study of the reservoir architecture in braided river systems has significant implications for the exploitation of remaining oil and gas reserves. However, due to the complexity of the braided river deposition process, the architecture patterns ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,361 Views
18 Pages

Hierarchical Multiple-Point Geostatistical Modeling Method and Application Based on Braided River Reservoir Architecture

  • Mengjiao Dou,
  • Shaohua Li,
  • Tao Lei,
  • Guanglei Ren,
  • Xiaohui Li,
  • Ying Guo,
  • Wenjie Feng and
  • Xianghui Zhang

31 October 2022

The Lower Shihezi Formation of the Daniudi gas field in the Ordos Basin is a typical reservoir of a braided river system in an alluvial plain, characterized by extensive braided river development, parallel development from the near source to the cent...

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  • Open Access
923 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2025

The Kekeya oilfield is located at the southwestern edge of the Tarim Basin, in the southern margin of the Yecheng depression, at the western end of the second structural belt of the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains. It is one of the importa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,395 Views
21 Pages

Reservoir Architecture of Turbidite Lobes and Remaining Oil Distribution: A Study on the B Formation for Z Oilfield of the Illizi Basin, Algeria

  • Changhai Li,
  • Weiqiang Li,
  • Huimin Ye,
  • Qiang Zhu,
  • Xuejun Shan,
  • Shengli Wang,
  • Deyong Wang,
  • Ziyu Zhang,
  • Hongping Wang and
  • Zhaofeng Zhu

10 March 2025

The turbidite lobe is a significant reservoir type formed by gravity flow. Analyzing the architecture of this reservoir holds great importance for deep-water oil and gas development. The main producing zone in Z Oilfield develops a set of turbidite l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,204 Views
19 Pages

Remaining Oil Distribution Law and Development Potential Analysis after Polymer Flooding Based on Reservoir Architecture in Daqing Oilfield, China

  • Hongtao Fu,
  • Zhenqiang Bai,
  • Hu Guo,
  • Kena Yang,
  • Chunping Guo,
  • Mingxi Liu,
  • Lihao Liang and
  • Kaoping Song

29 April 2023

Polymer flooding has drawn more and more attention in the world for its high incremental oil recovery factor and relative low costs compared with water flooding and other chemically enhanced oil recovery techniques. However, for many oilfields, such...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,282 Views
18 Pages

22 January 2025

The Chang 8 oil group within the Luo 1 well area of Jiyuan Oilfield, situated in the Ordos Basin, exemplifies an ultra-low-permeability reservoir with an average permeability of 0.84 mD. Despite primary development efforts through acid fracturing, su...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,786 Views
17 Pages

18 August 2022

The Cretaceous condensate gas reservoir in Yakela is in a fan delta system in which the river channel swings frequently and the contact relationships between sandbodies are complicated both vertically and horizontally. Therefore, making the sandbody...

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  • Open Access
1,363 Views
26 Pages

21 February 2025

Various glutenite reservoirs, developed by fans, can be found in the Junggar Basin. Among these, there are different interpretations of the glutenite reservoirs formed by shallow-water fan deltas in the Triassic system in the northwestern margin of t...

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  • Open Access
477 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2025

Reservoir architecture significantly influences fluid flow in ultra-low permeability reservoirs, yet this critical factor is frequently neglected in development strategies. This study investigates the Huang 57 block within the Jiyuan Oilfield of Chin...

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  • Open Access
276 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2025

The meandering river reservoirs of the Ng3–Ng4 members of the upper Guantao Formation in northern Middle Block 2, Gudao Oilfield, exhibit sand bodies with rapid lateral variation, complex contacts, and strong heterogeneity. Previous characteriz...

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  • Open Access
466 Views
18 Pages

3 November 2025

The shallow-water delta-front reservoir in Member II of the Oligocene Dongying Formation (Ed2), located in an oilfield within the Bohai Bay Basin, is a large-scale composite sedimentary system dominated by subaqueous distributary channels and mouth b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,918 Views
30 Pages

11 February 2022

Fracture network is a crucial element to address in any model of the thermo-hydro-mechanical behaviour of a reservoir rock. This study aims to provide quantified datasets and a further understanding of the critical parameters of the fracture network...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,322 Views
21 Pages

11 June 2021

Reservoirs in Taiwan often provide hydroelectric power, irrigation water, municipal water, and flood control for the whole year. Taiwan has the climatic characteristics of concentrated rainy seasons, instantaneous heavy rains due to typhoons and rain...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,508 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2024

Internal depositional architecture and sand body distribution are the main challenges faced in the development of gravity flow channel deposits in China. Despite significant progress in the exploration and development of gravity flow deposits in rece...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,698 Views
41 Pages

12 February 2025

Distributary channels at the delta front of lacustrine basins play a crucial role in transporting terrigenous sediments and redistributing depositional facies along the basin margin. These channels are also significant reservoirs for oil and gas. Thi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,960 Views
26 Pages

20 May 2024

This study delves into the geomechanical responses of different sedimentary hydrodynamic cycles in deep tight sandstone formations. Employing core observation and thin section analysis, we quantitatively identified and characterized bedding planes, s...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,464 Views
20 Pages

21 July 2022

Three-dimensional (3D) seismic data and well log data were used to investigate the sandstone architecture of the Middle Jurassic deltaic reservoirs of the Zhetybay Oilfield, Mangeshrak Basin, Kazakhstan. The base-level cycles of different scales were...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1,466 Views
26 Pages

Novel Design of Three-Channel Bilateral Teleoperation with Communication Delay Using Wave Variable Compensators

  • Bo Yang,
  • Chao Liu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Long Teng,
  • Jiawei Tian,
  • Siyuan Xu and
  • Wenfeng Zheng

Bilateral teleoperation systems have been widely used in many fields of robotics, such as industrial manipulation, medical treatment, space exploration, and deep-sea operation. Delays in communication, known as an inevitable issues in practical imple...

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  • Open Access
252 Citations
14,293 Views
18 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures for Reservoir Inflow Forecasting

  • Halit Apaydin,
  • Hajar Feizi,
  • Mohammad Taghi Sattari,
  • Muslume Sevba Colak,
  • Shahaboddin Shamshirband and
  • Kwok-Wing Chau

24 May 2020

Due to the stochastic nature and complexity of flow, as well as the existence of hydrological uncertainties, predicting streamflow in dam reservoirs, especially in semi-arid and arid areas, is essential for the optimal and timely use of surface water...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,228 Views
18 Pages

26 August 2024

The H8 and S1 reservoirs in the lower Shihezi Formation and Shanxi Formation of the central block in the Sulige Gas Field are typical fluvial tight sandstone reservoirs. Due to frequent river channel migrations during deposition, the reservoirs exhib...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,653 Views
28 Pages

27 November 2024

Characterizing pore network morphology and its influence on critical reservoir properties such as porosity, permeability, and fluid flow pathways is imperative for maximizing production from tight gas sandstone reservoirs. This study integrated petro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,936 Views
11 Pages

19 December 2019

Fine-root decomposition contributes a substantial amount of nitrogen that sustains both plant productivity and soil metabolism, given the high turnover rates and short root life spans of fine roots. Fine-root decomposition and soil carbon and nitroge...

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  • Open Access
272 Views
31 Pages

31 December 2025

The Eocene fourth member of the Shahejie formation (Es4x) in the Bonan Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, records syn-rift sedimentation under alternating arid and humid climates. It provides insight into how orbital-scale climatic fluctuations influenced...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
868 Views
23 Pages

23 April 2025

The Permian Lucaogou Formation (PLF) shale oil reservoirs in the Junggar Basin exhibit significant lithological heterogeneity, which limits the understanding of the relationship between macroscopic and microscopic reservoir characteristics, as well a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,262 Views
19 Pages

9 November 2022

A tide-dominated estuarine reservoir is an important oil reservoir. However, due to the force of bidirectional water flow, its internal structure is complex, and the heterogeneity is serious. Accurately establishing the tide-dominated estuarine reser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,719 Views
12 Pages

Design and Research of Photonic Reservoir Computing for Optical Channel Equalization

  • Xiaoyan Zuo,
  • Li Pei,
  • Bing Bai,
  • Bowen Bai,
  • Jianshuai Wang,
  • Quan Li and
  • Run Yang

In this paper, photonic reservoir computing chip architectures for noise equalization in optical fiber communication channels are proposed. These architectures leverage optical computing instead of electrical computing to reduce computational pressur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,976 Views
28 Pages

The Drosophila Connectome as a Computational Reservoir for Time-Series Prediction

  • Leone Costi,
  • Alexander Hadjiivanov,
  • Dominik Dold,
  • Zachary F. Hale and
  • Dario Izzo

In this work, we explore the possibility of using the topology and weight distribution of the connectome of a Drosophila, or fruit fly, as a reservoir for multivariate chaotic time-series prediction. Based on the information taken from the recently r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,447 Views
19 Pages

24 March 2023

In view of the key geological factors restricting reservoir development, the reservoir heterogeneity of an alluvial fan sandy conglomerate reservoir in the Qie12 block of Qaidam Basin, Northwest China, and its influence on remaining oil distribution,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,240 Views
13 Pages

Research on Sustainable Development Evaluation of Reservoir Water Source Area in Island Area

  • Jo-Hung Yu,
  • Hsiao-Hsien Lin,
  • Yu-Chih Lo,
  • Kuan-Chieh Tseng and
  • Chin-Hsien Hsu

20 April 2021

This study takes Taiwan’s Sun Moon Lake Reservoir as the research object to discuss the sustainable development decision-making of the reservoir water source area in the island area. The grounded theory was adopted to construct the framework; 835 que...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,926 Views
14 Pages

Parallel Reservoir Simulation with OpenACC and Domain Decomposition

  • Zhijiang Kang,
  • Ze Deng,
  • Wei Han and
  • Dongmei Zhang

18 December 2018

Parallel reservoir simulation is an important approach to solving real-time reservoir management problems. Recently, there is a new trend of using a graphics processing unit (GPU) to parallelize the reservoir simulations. Current GPU-aided reservoir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,061 Views
20 Pages

14 June 2023

In the middle and late stages of gas field development, the establishment of a fine reservoir lithological model is an important basis for drilling well pattern adjustment and potential exploitation. The SU 36-11 area of the Ordos basin in China is d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,006 Views
13 Pages

27 December 2023

This paper proposes a new research method for braided river sedimentation on the beach shore based on the action of tidal currents. This study conducts a statistical analysis of the length and width of a single braided river and channel bar sand body...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,044 Views
18 Pages

28 March 2019

This work presents a novel approach and paradigm for the coupling of human and robot dynamics with respect to control. We present an adaptive system based on Reservoir Computing and Recurrent Neural Networks able to couple control signals and robotic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,011 Views
28 Pages

A New Method of Geological Modeling for the Hydrocarbon Secondary Migration Research

  • Yong Zhang,
  • Chao Li,
  • Jun Li,
  • Xiaorong Luo,
  • Ming Cheng,
  • Xiaoying Zhang and
  • Bin Lu

19 March 2025

Reservoir geological modeling plays a crucial role in characterizing the spatial distribution and heterogeneity of subsurface reservoirs. The exploration of deep oil and gas resources is not only a global trend in the oil industry but also an inevita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,726 Views
21 Pages

13 June 2022

The architecture that the Renaissance artists depicted in their works constitutes a vast reservoir of formal solutions that influenced (and were reciprocally influenced by) built architecture. Generally painted according to a rigorous perspective str...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,530 Views
18 Pages

Comparing Reservoir Artificial and Spiking Neural Networks in Machine Fault Detection Tasks

  • Vladislav Kholkin,
  • Olga Druzhina,
  • Valerii Vatnik,
  • Maksim Kulagin,
  • Timur Karimov and
  • Denis Butusov

For the last two decades, artificial neural networks (ANNs) of the third generation, also known as spiking neural networks (SNN), have remained a subject of interest for researchers. A significant difficulty for the practical application of SNNs is t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,241 Views
15 Pages

Interpretation of Sand Body Architecture in Complex Fault Block Area of Craton Basin: Case Study of TIII in Sangtamu Area, Tarim Basin

  • Chao Wang,
  • Chunjing Yan,
  • Zhengjun Zhu,
  • Shaohua Li,
  • Duanchuan Lv,
  • Xixin Wang and
  • Dawang Liu

14 April 2023

The complex fault block oilfields in the craton basin contain vast reserves of oil and gas resources. During the development of an oilfield, the flow of oil, gas, and water, is controlled by faults and configuration boundaries. The distribution of re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
646 Views
26 Pages

A Productivity Model for Infill Wells in Transitional Shale Gas Reservoirs Considering Stratigraphic Heterogeneity with Interbedded Lithologies

  • Gaomin Li,
  • Dengyun Lu,
  • Jinzhou Zhao,
  • Bin Guan,
  • Wengao Zhou,
  • Lan Ren,
  • Ran Lin,
  • Minzhong Chen and
  • Jianjun Wu

23 June 2025

Transitional shale gas represents a critical frontier for China’s oil and gas exploration, characterized by extensive distribution and substantial resource potential. However, its frequent interbedding with coal seams and tight sandstones resul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,215 Views
32 Pages

27 June 2025

Understanding diagenetic processes is fundamental to characterizing heterogeneous carbonate reservoirs, where variations in pore structures and mineralogy significantly influence reservoir quality and fluid flow behavior. This study presents an integ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,055 Views
20 Pages

4 September 2020

This paper presents an efficient algorithm for the time evolution of open quantum many-body systems using matrix-product states (MPS) proposing a convenient structure of the MPS-architecture, which exploits the initial state of system and reservoir....

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,656 Views
46 Pages

16 May 2024

Hydraulic fracturing is vital in recovering hydrocarbons from oil and gas reservoirs. It involves injecting a fluid under high pressure into reservoir rock. A significant part of fracturing fluids is the addition of polymers that become gels or gel-l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
829 Views
23 Pages

2 June 2025

The identification and prediction of effective reservoir rocks are important for evaluating the energy production potential of ultra-deep tight sandstone reservoirs. Taking the Keshen gas field, Tarim Basin, as an example, three distinct petrofacies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,510 Views
30 Pages

14 February 2024

Tight sandstone oil reservoirs in the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation of the Ordos Basin are the most promising exploration and development fields owing to their huge production potential. Even though they have received considerable attention in re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,970 Views
15 Pages

Reservoir Units Optimization in Pneumatic Spray Delivery-Based Fixed Spray System for Large-Scale Commercial Adaptation

  • Ramesh K. Sahni,
  • Rakesh Ranjan,
  • Lav R. Khot,
  • Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel and
  • Matthew J. Grieshop

31 August 2022

A pneumatic spray delivery (PSD)-based solid set canopy delivery system (SSCDS) consists of in-line reservoirs and micro-emitter assemblies distributed throughout perennial crop canopies. The existing PSD-based SSCDS uses a large number of reservoirs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,062 Views
27 Pages

Prediction of the Amount of Sediment Deposition in Tarbela Reservoir Using Machine Learning Approaches

  • Shahzal Hassan,
  • Nadeem Shaukat,
  • Ammar Ahmad,
  • Muhammad Abid,
  • Abrar Hashmi,
  • Muhammad Laiq Ur Rahman Shahid,
  • Zohreh Rajabi and
  • Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq

1 October 2022

Tarbela is the largest earth-filled dam in Pakistan, used for both irrigation and power production. Tarbela has already lost around 41.2% of its water storage capacity through 2019, and WAPDA predicts that it will continue to lose storage capacity. I...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,402 Views
14 Pages

Reservoir Computing-Based Design of ZnO Memristor-Type Digital Identification Circuits

  • Lixun Wang,
  • Yuejun Zhang,
  • Zhecheng Guo,
  • Zhixin Wu,
  • Xinhui Chen and
  • Shimin Du

10 October 2022

Reservoir Computing (RC) is a network architecture inspired by biological neural systems that maps time-dimensional input features to a high-dimensional space for computation. The key to hardware implementation of the RC system is whether sufficient...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,464 Views
18 Pages

24 March 2025

Accurate and efficient modeling of subsurface flow in reservoir simulations is essential for optimizing hydrocarbon recovery, enhancing water management strategies, and informing critical decision-making processes. However, traditional numerical simu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,085 Views
20 Pages

Reservoir Evaporation Prediction Modeling Based on Artificial Intelligence Methods

  • Mohammed Falah Allawi,
  • Faridah Binti Othman,
  • Haitham Abdulmohsin Afan,
  • Ali Najah Ahmed,
  • Md. Shabbir Hossain,
  • Chow Ming Fai and
  • Ahmed El-Shafie

12 June 2019

The current study explored the impact of climatic conditions on predicting evaporation from a reservoir. Several models have been developed for evaporation prediction under different scenarios, with artificial intelligence (AI) methods being the most...

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