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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A review on the structure-performance relationship of the catalysts during propane dehydrogenation reaction
April 2022
Dehydrogenation of propane (PDH) technology is one of the most promising on-purpose technologies to solve supply-demand unbalance of propylene. The industrial catalysts for PDH, such as Pt- and Cr-based...
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Physics-informed neural network-based petroleum reservoir simulation with sparse data using domain decomposition
December 2023
Recent advances in deep learning have expanded new possibilities for fluid flow simulation in petroleum reservoirs. However, the predominant approach in existing research is to train neural networks...
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Shale porosity measurement by the saturated oil method: Removing the contribution from oils dissolved in kerogen
December 2023
Shale porosity measurements have crucial scientific and economical applications in unconventional petroleum systems. As a standard technique, liquid saturation methods, including water saturation (WS)...
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Whole petroleum system and ordered distribution pattern of conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs
February 2023
The classical source-to-trap petroleum system concept only considers the migration and accumulation of conventional oil and gas in traps driven dominantly by buoyance in a basin, although revised and...
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Risk assessment of oil and gas investment environment in countries along the Belt and Road Initiative
April 2024
With the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative, China is deepening its cooperation in oil and gas resources with countries along the Initiative. In order to better mitigate risks and enhance...
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The occurrence characteristics of oil in shales matrix from organic geochemical screening data and pore structure properties: An experimental study
February 2024
The occurrence characteristics of shale oil are of great significance to the movability of shale oil. In this study, the occurrence characteristics of oil in the shale matrix at Funing Formation shale...
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A critical review of self-diverting acid treatments applied to carbonate oil and gas reservoirs
April 2023
Carbonate reservoirs generally achieved relatively low primary resource recovery rates. It is therefore often necessary to clean those reservoirs up and/or stimulate them post drilling and later in...
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A review of fluid displacement mechanisms in surfactant-based chemical enhanced oil recovery processes: Analyses of key influencing factors
June 2022
Surfactant-based oil recovery processes are employed to lower the interfacial tension in immiscible displacement processes, change the wettability of rock to a more water-wet system and emulsify the...
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Crude oil cracking in deep reservoirs: A review of the controlling factors and estimation methods
August 2023
The natural cracking of crude oils in deep reservoirs has gained great interest due to continuously increasing depth of petroleum exploration and exploitation. Complex oil compositions and surroundings...
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International experience of carbon neutrality and prospects of key technologies: Lessons for China
April 2023
Carbon neutrality (or climate neutrality) has been a global consensus, and international experience exchange is essential. Given the differences in the degree of social development, resource endowment...
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A review of reservoir damage during hydraulic fracturing of deep and ultra-deep reservoirs
February 2024
Deep and ultra-deep reservoirs have gradually become the primary focus of hydrocarbon exploration as a result of a series of significant discoveries in deep hydrocarbon exploration worldwide. These...
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Rapid accuracy determining DNA purity and concentration in heavy oils by spectrophotometry methods
December 2023
DNA analysis is the core of biotechnology applied in petroleum resources and engineering. Traditionally accurate determination of DNA purity and concentration by spectrometer is the first and critical...
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Wettability of different clay mineral surfaces in shale: Implications from molecular dynamics simulations
April 2023
Shale contains a lot of clay minerals. Clay minerals mainly exist in nano- and micro-meter sized particles, and the pore structure is complex, which leads to its extremely complex wettability. The surface...
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