Technology and equipment of deep-sea mining: State of the art and perspectives
March 2025
Rising demand for minerals and metals in high-tech and new energy industries has led to a great interest in exploration of seabed mineral resources. Such resources, including polymetallic nodule (PMN),...
A review of gas leakage from the subsurface into the environment
September 2026
Subsurface gas leakage represents a complex and multifaceted issue in geosciences and energy sectors. It encompasses the unintentional release of gases such as methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and...
Challenges and research needs in in-situ resource utilization for lunar base construction
September 2026
In this perspective article, we review recent progress in In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) for lunar mining, particularly investigations derived from the Chang’e missions. We highlight the remaining...
Geoscience-informed evaluation of U.S. natural gas storage reservoirs, aquifers and salt caverns
June 2026
In the United States, underground natural gas storage (UNGS) represents the world’s largest and most established subsurface storage network, with a total capacity of 9.2 Tscf, including 4.7 Tscf of...
A systematic review of Coda Wave Interferometry technique for evaluating rock behavior properties: From single to multiple perturbations
June 2025
Understanding rock behavior is crucial in mine geotechnical engineering to ensure construction efficiency, mitigate rock-related hazards, and promote environmental sustainability. Coda Wave Interferometry...
Experimental study on boiling heat transfer of liquid film on micro-channel surfaces
December 2026
Boiling heat transfer performance is strongly influenced by the structure and wettability of the liquid film on the heating surface. However, the fabrication processes for high-performance heat transfer...
Development status and prospect of salt cavern energy storage technology
June 2025
The rapid development of energy storage technology has provided tremendous support for the energy transition in countries worldwide. Salt cavern energy storage, as a form of energy storage technology,...
Learning multi-phase flow and transport in fractured porous media with auto-regressive and recurrent graph neural networks
March 2026
In the past three decades, a wide array of computational methodologies and simulation frameworks have emerged to address the complexities of modeling flow and transport processes in fractured porous...
Machine learning-based upscaling of rock permeability from pore scale to core scale: Effect of training dataset size and sub-core volumes
March 2026
Permeability characterizes the capacity of porous formations to conduct fluids, thereby governing the performance of carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), hydrocarbon extraction, and subsurface...
Calculation method of multi-stage gas lift process parameters in deep offshore low-permeability oil and gas fields
September 2026
To address the challenges of low drainage efficiency and structural limitations in testing deep offshore low-permeability reservoirs in the eastern South China Sea, this paper proposes an innovative...
Salt precipitation-induced formation damage near the wellbore: Implications for underground hydrogen storage
June 2026
Underground hydrogen storage in saline aquifers presents several technical challenges, particularly evaporation-induced salt precipitation near the wellbore leads to injectivity loss and poses serious...
Stability evaluation of horizontal connected salt cavern compressed air energy storage in low-grade dipping salt layers
September 2026
Compressed air energy storage (CAES) power plant is an important means of peak regulating and valley filling on the source side and load side of renewable energy, which plays an important role in ensuring...
Nanoscale carbon structure of high-maturity coal-bearing source rocks and its controls on methane generation and enrichment: A case study of the Daning-Jixian block, Ordos Basin
September 2026
The enrichment potential of coalbed methane is primarily controlled by the nanoscale pore structure of organic matter; however, the relationships among structural arrangement, pore development, and...
Experimental investigation on acoustic emission response and fracture evolution of coal under stepwise pressurization and pump shut-in/re-initiation during hydraulic fracturing
June 2026
Hydraulic fracturing in low-permeability coal seams faces significant challenges, including poor controllability of fracture propagation and difficulty in forming complex fracture networks. Existing...
Climate-informed engineering for subsurface management: Concept, framework, and applications
June 2026
Subsurface resource management underpins a wide range of energy, storage, water, and extraction systems that operate over long timescales and interact with complex geological environments. The performance...
An ISM-enhanced Bayesian network framework for tunnel deformation prediction
June 2026
Accurate prediction of the ultimate deformation of the surrounding rock is pivotal for stability control and dynamic support design in tunneling. However, conventional predictive methods often struggle...
Challenges and development direction of deep fragmented soft coalbed methane in China
March 2025
Developing deep fragmented soft coalbed methane (CBM) can significantly enhance domestic natural gas supplies, reduce reliance on imported energy, and bolster national energy security. This manuscript...
Research status of creep–fatigue characteristics of salt rocks and stability of compressed air storage in salt caverns
March 2025
Energy is an important resource that supports the development of human society, and energy security is even more relevant to the strength of a country. In order to ensure energy security, countries...
A review on environmental assessment of thermochemical conversion technologies for energy generation from crop residue
December 2025
The world's energy consumption is on the rise due to the growing population. Biomass has great potential as an energy source for producing solid and liquid fuels from waste. The environmental impact...
Development of a transnational CO2 capture and storage super cluster to cut CO2 emissions in China’s East Coast: A perspective
March 2026
The development of a transnational carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) super cluster represents a novel approach to mitigate global carbon emissions. This study proposes the construction...
Bridging 2D and 3D: High-fidelity pore network construction for sandstone transport property prediction
March 2026
We characterize the complex pore architecture of four diagenetically altered sandstone samples using micro-CT imaging. By quantifying the pore size and pore connection distributions, we establish that...
Overview of physical-mechanical-chemical properties of bedded salt as underground energy storage (UES) in China
March 2026
As the global demand for energy continues to rise, energy storage systems have emerged as a crucial component in attaining energy sustainability, which contributes to the balance between supply and...
Dynamic tensile behaviour of rocks under confining pressure and high-rate loadings
March 2025
Tensile cracking is a predominant mode of failure in rocks within underground resource excavation and engineering structures, where rocks are frequently subjected to dynamic disturbances while simultaneously...
Thermo-tectonic and reservoir controls on geothermal energy feasibility in a foreland basin: A probabilistic thermo-hydraulic assessment from the Upper Assam Basin, India
December 2026
This study evaluates the feasibility of repurposing mature hydrocarbon reservoirs for geothermal energy production in the Upper Assam Basin, India, through an integrated thermo-tectonic and petrophysical...
Research on crack detection method for shallow-buried underground compressed air energy storage cavern based on improved mask R-CNN model
September 2025
This paper proposes a detection method based on an improved Mask Region-based Convolutional Neural Network (Mask R-CNN) model for crack recognition in shallow-buried compressed air energy storage (CAES)...
