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24 Citations
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29 April 2023

The necessity of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals and solve the problem of climate change, technological progress and the conscious climate policy of many countries has led to the transformation of the world economy and power industry t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,106 Views
12 Pages

Gas Generation Potential of Permian Oil-Prone Source Rocks and Natural Gas Exploration Potential in the Junggar Basin, NW China

  • Abilimit Yiming,
  • Xiujian Ding,
  • Liangrong Qian,
  • Hailei Liu,
  • Maoguo Hou and
  • Zhongfa Jiang

8 November 2022

The Junggar Basin, where twenty-seven oil fields and five gas fields have been discovered, is a typical “oil basin” with proven ratio of natural gas of 5.3%. The amount of natural gas from Permian source rocks has been found in the wester...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,863 Views
21 Pages

Studies on the Source and Phase Characteristics of Oil and Gas: Evidence from Hydrocarbon Geochemistry in the Pingbei Area of Xihu Sag, the East China Sea Shelf Basin, China

  • Wei Li,
  • Jianfa Chen,
  • Kaixuan Liu,
  • Rao Fu,
  • Cong Chen,
  • Yingxun Wang,
  • Xinjian Zhu,
  • Xiaodong Chen,
  • Tonglei Zhang and
  • Liwen He

11 September 2023

The Pingbei area is the main accumulation area of oil and gas in the Xihu Sag. The phase characteristics of oil and gas in this area are complex, and the understanding of their genesis is still unclear. In this paper, based upon discussions of crude...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,944 Views
18 Pages

17 May 2022

A high-quality methane emission estimation in China’s oil and gas sector is the basis of an effective mitigation strategy. Currently, the published emission data and studies of China’s oil and gas sector only provide estimations of total...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,945 Views
4 Pages

Satellite Characterization of Methane Point Sources by Offshore Oil and Gas PlatForms

  • Adriana Valverde,
  • Itziar Irakulis-Loitxate,
  • Javier Roger,
  • Javier Gorroño and
  • Luis Guanter

Reducing methane, which is the second most important anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, has been shown to be a good opportunity to mitigate global warming in the short to medium time. Remote sensing is nowadays a useful tool for the i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,340 Views
14 Pages

Impact of Oil Sources on In Vitro Fermentation, Microbes, Greenhouse Gas, and Fatty Acid Profile in the Rumen

  • Sardar Muhammad Amanullah,
  • Seong-Shin Lee,
  • Dimas Hand Vidya Paradhipta,
  • Young-Hoo Joo,
  • Dong-Hyeon Kim,
  • Pil-Nam Seong,
  • Seung-Min Jeong and
  • Sam-Churl Kim

This study estimated the effects of oil sources on fermentation characteristics, greenhouse gas, microbial diversity, and biohydrogenation of fatty acids in the rumen. In vitro ruminal incubation was performed with 7 mg of oil source, 15 mL rumen buf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
894 Views
14 Pages

Spatial and Temporal Variability in Atmospheric Emissions from Oil and Gas Sector Sources in the Marcellus Production Region

  • Qining Chen,
  • Nadin Raksi,
  • Lily Niewenhous,
  • Sewar Jennifer Almasalha,
  • Joel D. Graves,
  • V’Jae Brown,
  • Shannon Stokes,
  • David T. Allen and
  • Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz

3 September 2025

Temporal variability in emissions from oil and gas supply chains depends on the spatial scale at which emissions are aggregated. This work demonstrates a framework for simulating temporally and spatially resolved emission inventories that can be broa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,617 Views
21 Pages

Periods and Processes of Oil and Gas Accumulation in the HZ-A Structure Double Paleogene Field, Pearl River Mouth Basin

  • Jun Liu,
  • Guangrong Peng,
  • Leyi Xu,
  • Pei Liu,
  • Wanlin Xiong,
  • Ming Luo,
  • Xiang Gao,
  • Xumin Liu,
  • Haoran Liang and
  • Zhichao Li

20 October 2023

The source of oil and gas and the stages of oil and gas accumulation in the “double-Paleo” field of the HZ-A structure in the Pearl River Mouth Basin are analyzed, and the spatiotemporal coupling relationship of the key conditions of oil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
987 Views
15 Pages

23 September 2024

Regional mudstone cap rock has an important influence on the oil and gas distribution of the oil source faults below it. Therefore, studying the influence of these mudstone cap rocks on the hydrocarbon distribution pattern is fundamental to understan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,440 Views
17 Pages

Comparative Study of Tectonic Evolution and Oil–Gas Accumulation in the Ri-Qing-Wei Basin and the Jiaolai Basin

  • Yue Zhang,
  • Yaoqi Zhou,
  • Tengfei Zhou,
  • Yang Chen,
  • Sunyi Li,
  • Yuehan Shang,
  • Hongyu Mu,
  • Bingyang Bai,
  • Hao Gao and
  • Guojie Yang
  • + 2 authors

22 July 2022

The Ri-Qing-Wei basin is located in the central Sulu Orogeny on the eastern side of the Tanlu fault zone in eastern Shandong province. To the north, the Jiaonan uplift separates it from the Jiaolai basin, where drilling in the lower Cretaceous sedime...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,694 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2023

Shale oil and gas production areas are especially active in Texas. The Eagle Ford Shale in south central Texas contributes substantially to US oil and gas production; it has repeatedly been the focus of air quality studies due to its associated emiss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,773 Views
19 Pages

16 March 2020

The central United States has seen an increase in earthquakes in recent years, spurring academics to research this new hazard and communicate their findings to the public—that the earthquakes are human-induced and tied to activities associated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,913 Views
15 Pages

31 May 2022

An optical sensor employing tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy with wavelength modulation and 2f harmonic detection was designed, prototyped, and tested for applications in quantifying methane emissions from vent sources in the oil and gas s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,610 Views
15 Pages

Numerical Simulation and Environmental Impact Assessment of VOCs Diffusion Based on Multi-Emission Sources in the Natural Gas Purification Plant

  • Yuqian Ge,
  • Weiqiu Huang,
  • Xufei Li,
  • Ziqiang Xu,
  • Qin Yang,
  • Cheng Zhang,
  • Ning Zhou,
  • Xiangyu Kong and
  • Xinchen Tian

9 February 2024

The rising number of natural gas purification plants has raised concerns about safety and environmental issues related to VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) leakage. Therefore, it is crucial to conduct in-depth research on oil vapor emission patterns i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,757 Views
18 Pages

31 January 2023

A novel control strategy to manage the integration of a wind turbine (WT) and an energy storage unit to an existing stand-alone microgrid servicing an oil and gas (O&G) rig is the topic of this paper. The control strategy includes a primary and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,592 Views
25 Pages

26 January 2024

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals is impossible without sustainable oil and gas production, both in terms of ensuring equal access to cheap energy and preserving the environment, as well as caring for non-renewable fossil energy sources....

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,322 Views
17 Pages

2 September 2023

In order to study the distribution pattern of hydrocarbons in the shallow layer of the slope area outside of the source in the hydrocarbon-bearing basin, we built a method to predict the favorable site of the fault that adjusts hydrocarbon to the sha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,390 Views
16 Pages

A Proposal for Rapid Assessment of Long-Distance Oil and Gas Pipelines After Earthquakes

  • Hongyuan Jing,
  • Liang Huang,
  • Hua Liu,
  • Weijun Jiang,
  • Qinglu Deng and
  • Ruiqing Niu

25 March 2025

A substantial proportion of long-distance oil and gas pipelines in China traverse active faults and high-risk areas characterised by intricate topographic and geological environments. These pipelines are susceptible to a range of safety concerns, exa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,975 Views
15 Pages

21 April 2022

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement has been announced as a crucial step towards combating the global threat of climate change. In the light of ambitious plans for further renewable energy sources development, hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,384 Views
24 Pages

Mechanisms of Differential Enrichment of Oil and Gas in the Paleogene of the Bohai Exploration Area: Controlled by Sag Types and Source–Reservoir Coupling

  • Yan Chen,
  • Haitao Liu,
  • Jufeng Wang,
  • Deqiang Sun,
  • Zijun Tang,
  • Chunming Zhang,
  • Fengcheng Wu,
  • Qingyao Li,
  • Zhenglong Jiang and
  • Changyi Zhao

28 February 2025

As of 2019, 119 oil and gas fields were involved in the Paleogene of the Bohai exploration area, accounting for more than 85% of the total number of oil and gas fields in the Bohai Bay Basin. Previous studies have confirmed that there are significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,003 Views
20 Pages

3 August 2023

A breakthrough has been made in the recent exploration of the deep oil and gas bearing system in the eastern belt around the Penyijingxi sag of the Junggar Basin. These reservoirs are characterized by mixed sources and multi-stage accumulation. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,614 Views
17 Pages

Exploitation and Utilization of Generated Oil and Gas by Pyrolysis Simulation Modeling of Shale Source Rocks under the Condition of In Situ Conversion

  • Xia Luo,
  • Lianhua Hou,
  • Zhongying Zhao,
  • Senhu Lin,
  • Zhenglian Pang,
  • Lijun Zhang,
  • Wenxue Han and
  • Yong Li

3 January 2024

Previous studies have mainly focused on the source rocks of the 7th Member of Yanchang Formation (Chang 7 Member) in the Ordos Basin, with very few studies focusing on the extracts from the source rocks. These extracts have important guiding signific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,247 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2024

The muddy limestone in the Lei32 sub-member of the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation in the well Chongtan 1 (CT1) of the Sichuan Basin has yielded promising industrial oil and gas production. This discovery has the potential to become a significant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,622 Views
39 Pages

5 September 2019

The production of shale gas and oil is associated with the generation of substantial amounts of wastewater. With the growing emphasis on sustainable development, the energy sector has been intensifying efforts to manage water resources while diversif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,675 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2024

Methane (CH4) is the second-largest greenhouse gas contributing to global climate warming. As of 2022, methane emissions from the oil and gas industry amounted to 3.586 million tons, representing 13.24% of total methane emissions and ranking second a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,924 Views
24 Pages

Decarbonization in the Oil and Gas Sector: The Role of Power Purchase Agreements and Renewable Energy Certificates

  • Stamatios K. Chrysikopoulos,
  • Panos T. Chountalas,
  • Dimitrios A. Georgakellos and
  • Athanasios G. Lagodimos

24 July 2024

This study examines the adoption of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) as strategic tools for decarbonization in the oil and gas sector. Focusing on the 21 largest oil and gas companies across Europe, North Amer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,005 Views
22 Pages

Rethinking EU Countries’ Energy Security Policy Resulting from the Ongoing Energy Crisis: Polish and German Standpoints

  • Agnieszka Konopelko,
  • Luiza Kostecka-Tomaszewska and
  • Katarzyna Czerewacz-Filipowicz

3 July 2023

The energy crisis in Europe in 2022 and its consequences have brought changes to approaches towards the issue of energy security, energy policy, and the ability to react to crisis phenomena in the energy market in a short period of time. European cou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,655 Views
42 Pages

At present, the study of the oil and gas potential of poorly explored areas of oil and gas basins in the Russian Federation is of great importance due to the possibility of discovering large hydrocarbon accumulations in them. The Vychegda Trough in t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,845 Views
31 Pages

22 September 2024

The problems of achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals related to providing both developed and developing countries with cheap and accessible energy, as well as in the context of taking climate action, cannot be solved, on the one hand, wit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
985 Views
32 Pages

24 February 2025

The Dibei Gas Field, located in the northern Kuqa Foreland Basin, Tarim Basin, western China, is one of the most important condensate gas-producing areas in China, with over one trillion cubic feet of gas reserves discovered in the Jurassic terrestri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,155 Views
14 Pages

Characteristics and Origin of Natural Gas in Yongfeng Sub-Sag of Bogda Mountain Front Belt

  • Xiangcan Sun,
  • Yi Chen,
  • Xingui Zhou,
  • Zhongkai Bai,
  • Yukun Du,
  • Lei Wen and
  • Kun Yuan

8 October 2024

By systematically analyzing the natural gas composition, carbon isotopes, and source rock characteristics in the Yongfeng sub-sag of the Bogda Mountain front belt, natural gas characteristics were determined, and the genetic types and sources of natu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,391 Views
21 Pages

29 August 2019

Currently, most of the world’s shale-oil is coming from the United States, but more may be needed from non-U.S. sources in order to keep the world price of oil from increasing, and yet a number of petroleum producing countries have yet to devel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,857 Views
20 Pages

16 January 2014

Three of the major players in the discussion of the production of oil and gas are: (1) government; (2) the oil and gas industry and (3) non-governmental organizations (NGOs). A comparison of contributions from these three sources using a list of posi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,093 Views
14 Pages

22 October 2024

To study the oil and gas distribution law in the slope area of a hydrocarbon-bearing basin, one must first define the dominant hydrocarbon transport paths of sand bodies as the superimposed area of the contiguously distributed area of the sand bodies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,728 Views
28 Pages

16 November 2022

The coexistence of numerous Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) Pb–Zn deposits and oil/gas reservoirs in the world suggests a close genetic relationship between mineralization and hydrocarbon accumulation. The Wusihe MVT Pb–Zn deposits are loca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,315 Views
35 Pages

21 January 2023

In recent years, a large amount of industrial oil and gas resources have been discovered in the Paleogene Wenchang Formation (WC) of the southern Lufeng sag, confirming that the WC resources are promising prospects for petroleum exploration. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,854 Views
21 Pages

5 January 2025

Shale oil and gas resources have become an alternative energy source and are crucial in the field of sustainable oil and gas exploration. In the Junggar Basin, the Permian is not only the most significant source rock, but also an important field in s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,409 Views
14 Pages

31 July 2024

In order to study the distribution pattern of oil and gas near the lower-source, upper-storage type of oil source faults in the hydrocarbon-bearing basins, a set of prediction methods favourable to oil and gas migration and accumulation were establis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,697 Views
22 Pages

With the development of strategic oil and gas assets, massive spatiotemporal oil and gas data have been accumulated. Application systems that assist in the storage and management of the voluminous and complex oil and gas datasets are in high demand....

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,271 Views
18 Pages

Emissions and Air Quality Implications of Upstream and Midstream Oil and Gas Operations in Mexico

  • Elena McDonald-Buller,
  • Gary McGaughey,
  • John Grant,
  • Tejas Shah,
  • Yosuke Kimura and
  • Greg Yarwood

17 December 2021

Mexico approved amendments to its constitution in December 2013 that initiated transformational changes to its energy sector. This study developed a 2016 bottom-up emissions inventory for volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,434 Views
20 Pages

7 November 2023

Natural resource rent (NRR) can be a blessing for the economic growth of resource-rich economies but may cause environmental problems. The present research explores the effects of NRR, economic growth, trade openness (TO), and foreign direct investme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,548 Views
16 Pages

30 June 2023

A breakthrough was made in tight marlstone reservoirs from an evaporative lagoon in the second sub-member of the third member of the Leikoupo Formation (Lei3-2) in the Central Sichuan Basin. The source rock characteristics, reservoir characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,860 Views
16 Pages

11 August 2023

The natural gas in the Triassic Xujiahe Formation (T3x) is reported to be mainly derived from the T3x source rock itself. Here, we report a new natural gas accumulation model, which demonstrates that the T3x gas in the Tongjiang-Malubei (TM) area is...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,029 Views
7 Pages

Evaluation of Gas Generation Potential Using Thermal Maturity Modelling—The Katakolo Case: A Probable Pathway to Energy Transition

  • Vagia Ioanna Makri,
  • George Panagopoulos,
  • Konstantinos Nikolaou,
  • Spyridon Bellas and
  • Nikos Pasadakis

It is evident that the increased focus on energy transition, will increase the demand for gas as it is the transitional fuel to the net zero CO2 emission era. The West Katakolo field is the only oil and gas discovery in Western Greece, and it is oper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,012 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2024

Light oil, a high-quality energy resource abundant in deep basins, is prevalent in the northern zone of the Dongying Depression. To elucidate the formation mechanism of light oil reservoirs, this study investigates the molecular and stable isotope co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
728 Views
19 Pages

Sealing of Unconformity Structure and Hydrocarbon Accumulation in the Baikouquan Formation of the Mahu Sag

  • Zexin Wan,
  • Menglin Zheng,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Yiyao Bao,
  • Zhiyuan An,
  • Qilin Xiao and
  • Yunqiao Chen

7 April 2025

Unconformity stratigraphic traps are widely developed in the Mahu Sag, on the northwestern margin of the Junggar Basin. It is of great significance for subsequent oil and gas exploration to explore the role of conglomerate accumulation mode and uncon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
651 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,880 Views
15 Pages

29 April 2022

The dynamic evolution characteristics of fracture are crucial to analyzing the development of coal and rock mass instability, gas diffusion law, and dynamic disaster prediction. These characteristics affect coal rock fractures and gas-induced disaste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
10,411 Views
29 Pages

27 August 2024

Produced Water (PW) represents the largest waste stream in the oil and gas industry. As a water resource and as a source of valuable minerals such as alkali salts, it is has been highly under-valued, especially in hyper-arid regions. The beneficial u...

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