Synthetic polymers: A review of applications in drilling fluids
February 2024
With the growth of deep drilling and the complexity of the well profile, the requirements for a more complete and efficient exploitation of productive formations increase, which increases the risk of...
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Crude oil wax: A review on formation, experimentation, prediction, and remediation techniques
October 2022
Wax deposition during crude oil production, transportation, and processing has been a headache since the early days of oil utilization. It may lead to low mobility ratios, blockage of production tubing/pipelines...
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Recent developments in high-performance Nafion membranes for hydrogen fuel cells applications
June 2022
As a promising alternative to petroleum fossil energy, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell has drawn considerable attention due to its low pollution emission, high energy density, portability, and...
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Standards and methods for dent assessment and failure prediction of pipelines: A critical review
December 2022
Dent, a common mechanical damage on pipelines, is associated with a significant local plastic deformation. Dents can cause pipeline failures, especially when they are combined with other types of defects...
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A review of high-performance MEMS sensors for resource exploration and geophysical applications
December 2022
MEMS sensors have the advantages of small volume, lightweight, and low cost, therefore, have been widely used in the fields of consumer electronics, industry, health, defence, and aerospace. With their...
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A tectono-thermal perspective on the petroleum generation, accumulation and preservation in the southern Ordos Basin, North China
June 2024
The southern Ordos Basin has excellent petroleum exploration prospects. However, the tectono-thermal history and the controls on petroleum generation, accumulation and preservation conditions in southern...
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Polymer flooding: Current status and future directions
April 2023
This review presents our perspective on the factors that have brought polymer flooding to its current state. Insights are provided on why HPAM is the dominant polymer used as well as what is needed...
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Advances in enhanced oil recovery technologies for low permeability reservoirs
August 2022
Low permeability oil and gas resources are rich and have great potential all over the world, which has gradually become the main goal of oil and gas development. However, after traditional primary and...
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SeisResoDiff: Seismic resolution enhancement based on a diffusion model
Available online 6 July 2024
High resolution of post-stack seismic data assists in better interpretation of subsurface structures as well as high accuracy of impedance inversion. Therefore, geophysicists consistently strive to...
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Rock thin-section analysis and identification based on artificial intelligent technique
August 2022
Rock thin-section identification is an indispensable geological exploration tool for understanding and recognizing the composition of the earth. It is also an important evaluation method for oil and...
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Review on the challenges and strategies in oil and gas industry's transition towards carbon neutrality in China
December 2023
In light of carbon-neutral pledge, the oil and gas industry has been facing several critical new challenges in China. The current status and new challenges in terms of market mechanism reform, supply-consumption...
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Research progress on micro-force measurement of a hydrate particle system
August 2024
It remains a great challenge to understand the hydrates involved in phenomena in practical oil and gas systems. The adhesion forces between hydrate particles, between hydrate particles and pipe walls,...
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An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery and its status in India
August 2023
India is currently producing crude oil from matured fields because of insufficient discoveries of new fields. Therefore, in order to control the energy crisis in India, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) techniques...
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CO2 storage with enhanced gas recovery (CSEGR): A review of experimental and numerical studies
April 2022
CO2 emission mitigation is one of the most critical research frontiers. As a promising option of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS), CO2 storage with enhanced gas recovery (CSEGR) can reduce...
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Review of carbonated water injection as a promising technology to enhance oil recovery in the petroleum industry: Challenges and prospects
Available online 6 July 2024
Carbonated water injection (CWI) is a promising enhanced oil recovery (EOR) technology that has received much attention in co-optimizing CO2 storage and oil recovery. This study provides a comprehensive...
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An improved deep dilated convolutional neural network for seismic facies interpretation
June 2024
With the successful application and breakthrough of deep learning technology in image segmentation, there has been continuous development in the field of seismic facies interpretation using convolutional...
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Chemical treatment for sand production control: A review of materials, methods, and field operations
June 2023
Sand production from loosely consolidated reservoirs is one of the critical issues in the oil and gas industry all around the world that can cause many problems, such as erosion of surface and well...
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Production decline curve analysis of shale oil wells: A case study of Bakken, Eagle Ford and Permian
Available online 7 August 2024
The shale revolution has turned the United States from an oil importer into an oil exporter. The success of shale oil production in the U.S. has inspired many countries, including China, to begin the...
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New model of linkage evolution for the transtensional fault systems in the Nanpu Sag of Bohai Bay Basin: Insight from seismic interpretation and analogue modelling
August 2024
The evolution of faults within the same stress field is frequently influenced by numerous factors, involving the reactivation of pre-existing structures, stress transmission through ductile detachment...
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Concise extraction and characterization of the pore-throat network in unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs: A new perspective
June 2024
In this study, a new image-based method for the extraction and characterization of pore-throat network for unconventional hydrocarbon storage and exploitation is proposed. “Pore-throat solidity”, which...
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Probabilistic seismic inversion based on physics-guided deep mixture density network
June 2024
Deterministic inversion based on deep learning has been widely utilized in model parameters estimation. Constrained by logging data, seismic data, wavelet and modeling operator, deterministic inversion...
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Identification of reservoir types in deep carbonates based on mixed-kernel machine learning using geophysical logging data
June 2024
Identification of reservoir types in deep carbonates has always been a great challenge due to complex logging responses caused by the heterogeneous scale and distribution of storage spaces. Traditional...
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Influence of tectonic preservation conditions on the nanopore structure of shale reservoir: A case study of Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation shale in western Hubei area, south China
August 2024
Tectonism is one of the dominant factors affecting the shale pore structure. However, the control of shale pore structure by tectonic movements is still controversial, which limits the research progress...
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Impact of volcanism on the formation and hydrocarbon generation of organic-rich shale in the Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China
June 2024
Globally, most organic-rich shales are deposited with volcanic ash layers. Volcanic ash, a source for many sedimentary basins, can affect the sedimentary water environment, alter the primary productivity,...
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Adsorption behavior of CO2/H2S mixtures in calcite slit nanopores for CO2 storage: An insight from molecular perspective
August 2024
It is acknowledged that injecting CO2 into oil reservoirs and saline aquifers for storage is a practical and affordable method for CO2 sequestration. Most CO2 produced from industrial exhaust contains...
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