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Energy revolution: From a fossil energy era to a new energy era

This paper aims to predict the future situation of global energy development. In view of this, we reviewed the history of energy use and understood that new energy sources will usher in a new era following...

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Deep and ultra-deep oil and gas well drilling technologies: Progress and prospect

In the period of “13th Five-Year Plan”, domestic deep and ultra-deep oil/gas well drilling technologies were developed quickly and a great number of technological achievements were obtained by means...

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Industrial status, technological progress, challenges, and prospects of hydrogen energy

Under the requirements of China's strategic goal of "carbon peaking and carbon neutrality", as a renewable, clean and efficient secondary energy source, hydrogen benefits from abundant resources, a...

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Review of CO2 sequestration mechanism in saline aquifers

The concentration of CO2 in the global atmosphere, which is increasingly annually with continued industrial development, affects both the global climate and the ecological environment. To control the...

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Formula calculation methods of water content in sweet natural gas and their adaptability analysis

Estimation of water content is the foundation of natural gas processing and designing, and a formula calculation method provides a solution simple and easy to be programmed by computers. In this regard,...

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Connotation, innovation and vision of “carbon neutrality”

Global climate change caused by geological processes is one of the main causes of the 5 global mass extinctions in geological history. Human industrialization activities have caused serious damage to...

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Ten years of gas shale fracturing in China: Review and prospect

The first fractured shale gas well of China was constructed in 2010. After 10 years of development, China has become the second country that possesses the core technology of shale gas development around...

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Gas sweetening simulation and its optimization by two typical amine solutions: An industrial case study in Persian Gulf region

The selective removal of acid gases using amine-based solutions is a significant process in the petroleum and natural gas industries. This work investigates the effectiveness of two common chemical...

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China's hydrogen development strategy in the context of double carbon targets

As a clean, low-carbon, efficient and renewable energy source, hydrogen has gradually become an important energy carrier to combat climate change and achieve sustainable development in the world. China...

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Evolution laws and new trends of global LNG pricing and their implications

Natural gas is of great significance to ensuring China's energy security and achieving “carbon neutrality” by 2060. However, the lack of power to decide LNG import pricing and the high resource cost...

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Natural gas industry in China: Development situation and prospect

China's natural gas industry has entered a rapid development stage, and its supply, sales, storage and transport systems are continuously undergoing profound structural change. It is a major issue concerning...

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Deep shale gas exploration and development in the southern Sichuan Basin: New progress and challenges

There are abundant marine shale gas resources in the Sichuan Basin. After almost one decade of exploration and development, three national shale gas demonstration areas have been built in the Sichuan...

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Principles of and tips for nitrogen displacement in gas pipeline commissioning

Since the West-to-East Pipeline I was put into production, operators have made many attempts and accumulated valuable experiences in gas pipeline commissioning. However, there are still some problems....

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Review on the development of China's natural gas industry in the background of “carbon neutrality"

At the 75th UN General Assembly, the Chinese government declared to strive to reach peak carbon dioxide emission by 2030 and achieve “carbon neutrality” by 2060. The establishment of this goal not only...

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Joint exploration and development: A self-salvation road to sustainable development of unconventional oil and gas resources

Commercial production of unconventional oil and gas resources will not be easily achieved without large-scale engineering measures, let alone the additional operation cost, increasingly stricter requirement...

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Technologies in deep and ultra-deep well drilling: Present status, challenges and future trend in the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016–2020)

During the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2011–2015), CNPC independently developed a series of new drilling equipment, tools and chemical materials for deep and ultra-deep wells, including six packages...

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Research status and development trend of key technologies for enhanced geothermal systems

Enhanced geothermal system (EGS) is a primary method to develop geothermal resources stored in hot dry rock (HDR), but it faces several key problems, such as unreasonable hydraulic fracture networks...

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Coal bed methane gas in-place estimation for the North-Western region of Zimbabwe

Coal Bed Methane (CBM) is natural gas occurring in coal seams. It can be used for domestic (heating and cooking) and industrial purposes, electricity generation, transportation (as compressed natural...

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Progress and prospect of CNOOC's oil and gas well drilling and completion technologies

Offshore oil and gas production has become an important growth pole to ensure national energy security. However, China's offshore oil and gas production is lack of key core technologies and weak in...

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Key elements for functioning gas hubs: A case study of East Asia

This paper clarifies various concepts relevant to gas trading hubs and presents an innovative framework with key elements to create gas hubs. The nine key elements in the framework are further divided...

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Shale gas accumulation patterns in China

Although significant progress has been made in the geological theory and exploration and development of shale gas in China, the research on the geological particularity and enrichment regularity associated...

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Technical advances in well type and drilling & completion for high-efficient development of coalbed methane in China

Compared with the United States, Australia, Canada, and other countries, China's coalbed methane reservoir is featured by low formation pressure, low permeability, low gas saturation, and strong heterogeneity,...

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Key technologies for salt-cavern underground gas storage construction and evaluation and their application

Salt-cavern underground gas storage is technically faced with non-uniform distribution of stratified salt rocks, complex solution mining mechanism, difficult control of solution mining process, less...

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Development of natural gas industry in China: Review and prospect

In order to better promote the sustainable, effective and rapid development of natural gas business and the on-schedule realization of “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goal, this paper summarizes...

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Thermophysical properties of natural gas hydrates: A review

As a promising new energy source, natural gas hydrates (NGHs) have attracted wide attention. The thermophysical properties of NGHs are of great significance to their exploitation. This work summarizes...

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