Research status and application of artificial intelligence large models in the oil and gas industry
August 2024
This article elucidates the concept of large model technology, summarizes the research status of large model technology both domestically and internationally, provides an overview of the application...
Geologic characteristics, exploration and production progress of shale oil and gas in the United States: An overview
August 2024
We present a systematic summary of the geological characteristics, exploration and development history and current state of shale oil and gas in the United States. The hydrocarbon-rich shales in the...
Oil production characteristics and CO2 storage mechanisms of CO2 flooding in ultra-low permeability sandstone oil reservoirs
February 2025
Using the ultra-low permeability reservoirs in the L block of the Jiangsu oilfield as an example, a series of experiments, including slim tube displacement experiments of CO2-oil system, injection capacity...
Petroleum exploration and production in Brazil: From onshore to ultra-deepwaters
August 2024
The Santos Basin in Brazil has witnessed significant oil and gas discoveries in deepwater pre-salt since the 21st century. Currently, the waters in eastern Brazil stand out as a hot area of deepwater...
The status and development strategy of coalbed methane industry in China
August 2023
To achieve the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality under the backgrounds of poor resource endowments, weak theoretical basis and other factors, the development of the coalbed methane industry...
Application and development trend of artificial intelligence in petroleum exploration and development
February 2021
Aiming at the actual demands of petroleum exploration and development, this paper describes the research progress and application of artificial intelligence (AI) in petroleum exploration and development,...
Research progress and potential of new enhanced oil recovery methods in oilfield development
August 2024
This paper reviews the basic research means for oilfield development and also the researches and tests of enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods for mature oilfields and continental shale oil development,...
Analysis of the world deepwater oil and gas exploration situation
October 2023
The global trends in deepwater oil and gas exploration, characteristics of deepwater oil and gas discovery, and layout of deepwater oil and gas exploration business by seven major international oil...
A review of interaction mechanisms and microscopic simulation methods for CO2-water-rock system
February 2024
This work systematically reviews the complex mechanisms of CO2-water-rock interactions, microscopic simulations of reactive transport (dissolution, precipitation and precipitate migration) in porous...
Analysis of the current status of global oil, gas, and associated resources exploration in 2023
December 2024
Based on commercial databases from S&P Global and Rystad Energy and public information from oil companies around the world, a systematic analysis has been conducted on the global hydrocarbon exploration...
Scope, nature, and exploration significance of Ordos Basin during geological historical periods, NW China
August 2025
Based on the analysis of surface geological survey, exploratory well, gravity-magnetic-electric and seismic data, and through mapping the sedimentary basin and its peripheral orogenic belts together,...
The role of new energy in carbon neutral
April 2021
Carbon dioxide is an important medium of the global carbon cycle, and has the dual properties of realizing the conversion of organic matter in the ecosystem and causing the greenhouse effect. The fixed...
A Transformer-based approach for anomaly detection in intelligent well completions
August 2025
This study introduces a novel methodology and makes case studies for anomaly detection in multivariate oil production time-series data, utilizing a supervised Transformer algorithm to identify spurious...
Global oil and gas development situation, trends and enlightenment in 2023
December 2024
This paper presents an analysis of four aspects, including the distribution and production of global oil and gas fields, the distribution and changes of remaining recoverable reserves, the differences...
Research progress and development of deep and ultra-deep drilling fluid technology
August 2024
The research progress of deep and ultra-deep drilling fluid technology systematically reviewed, the key problems existing are analyzed, and the future development direction is proposed. In view of the...
Status, trends and enlightenment of global oil and gas development in 2021
October 2022
By analyzing the distribution of global oil and gas fields and the reasons why some oil and gas fields are not in production, the distribution characteristics of oil and gas remaining recoverable reserves...
Analysis of the world oil and gas exploration situation in 2021
October 2022
The global exploration investment, new oil and gas discoveries, exploration business adjustment strategies of oil companies in 2021, and future favorable exploration domains are systematically analyzed...
Progress and prospects of horizontal well fracturing technology for shale oil and gas reservoirs
February 2022
By systematically summarizing horizontal well fracturing technology abroad for shale oil and gas reservoirs since the “13th Five-Year Plan”, this article elaborates new horizontal well fracturing features...
Differential accumulation characteristics and production of coalbed methane/coal-rock gas: A case study of the No. 8 coal seam of the Carboniferous Benxi Formation in the Daji block, Ordos Basin, NW China
August 2025
Based on the coalbed methane (CBM)/coal-rock gas (CRG) geological, geophysical, and experimental testing data from the Daji block in the Ordos Basin, the coal-forming and hydrocarbon generation & accumulation...
A comprehensive review of polyacrylamide polymer gels for conformance control
August 2015
Polymer gels have been designed and successfully applied to improve sweep efficiency and to reduce excessive water production by minimizing reservoir heterogeneity. Based on their compositions and application...
Research progress and key issues of ultra-deep oil and gas exploration in China
December 2023
Based on the recent oil and gas discoveries and geological understandings on the ultra-deep strata of sedimentary basins, the formation and occurrence of hydrocarbons in the ultra-deep strata were investigated...
Key parameters and evaluation methods for large-scale production of lacustrine shale oil
August 2025
Based on the analysis of typical lacustrine shale oil zones in China and their geological characteristics, this study elucidates the fundamental differences between the enrichment patterns of shale...
Natural gas types and coal-rock gas classification in the whole petroleum system of coal measures
August 2025
There are various types of natural gas resources in coal measures, making them major targets for natural gas exploration and development in China. In view of the particularity of the whole petroleum...
Progress and prospects of carbon dioxide capture, EOR-utilization and storage industrialization
August 2022
Carbon dioxide capture, EOR-utilization and storage (CCUS-EOR) are the most practical and feasible large-scale carbon reduction technologies, and also the key technologies to greatly improve the recovery...
Trend of global carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage industry and challenges and countermeasures in China
October 2023
This paper systematically reviews the trend of carbon dioxide capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) industry in the world and China, presents the CCUS projects, clusters, technologies and strategies/policies,...