Advances, challenges, and prospects of carbon dioxide capture, utilization, and storage technologies for carbon neutrality
December 2025
This study reviews the recent progress and trends of carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies, with a particular focus on related policy orientations, technological status, and representative...
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...
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...
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...
Advances and future prospects of shale oil and gas drilling fluid technology
December 2025
This paper systematically reviews the advances in shale oil and gas drilling fluid technology, provides an in-depth analysis of the critical bottlenecks in each technology and explores their future...
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,...
Diffusion, mass transfer and oil mobilization mechanisms of CO2 huff-n-puff in Gulong shale oil reservoirs
December 2025
To reveal the complex crude oil-CO2 interaction mechanism and oil mobilization behavior during CO2 huff-n-puff in shale-type shale oil reservoirs, CO2 huff-n-puff experiments with on-line nuclear magnetic...
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...
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...
Fracture initiation and propagation laws of supercritical CO2 shock fracturing
February 2026
To investigate the fracture initiation and propagation behavior of fractures in tight sandstone under the supercritical CO2 (SCCO2) shock fracturing, laboratory fracturing experiments were conducted...
Progress in CO2 flooding and storage techniques for lacustrine oil reservoirs and development directions of their large-scale application in China
August 2025
Based on the technological demands for significantly enhancing oil recovery and long-term CO2 sequestration in the lacustrine oil reservoirs of China, this study systematically reviews the progress...
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...
Enrichment mechanism and optimal in-situ conversion recovery method of lacustrine low-to-medium maturity shale oil
February 2026
In-situ heating conversion is the most practical recovery method for lacustrine low-to-medium maturity shale oil. However, the energy output-input ratio must exceed the economic threshold to achieve...
Micromechanical damage and proppant embedment patterns of fracture surfaces in lacustrine shale CO2 pre-pad energized fracturing
August 2025
To elucidate the mechanism by which supercritical CO2 (SCCO2)-water-shale interactions during CO2 energized fracturing influence proppant embedment in lacustrine shale, shale samples from the Bohai...
Review of the classification and related terminology of fine-grained sedimentary rocks
February 2026
Through tracing the background and customary usage of classification of fine-grained sedimentary rocks and terminology, and comparing current “sedimentary petrology” textbooks and monographs, this paper...
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...
Global coal-rock gas resource potential and distribution
February 2026
Based on the data of regional geology, seismic, drilling, logging and production performance obtained from 94 major petroliferous basins worldwide, the global coal resources were screened and statistically...
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...
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...
Earth energy evolution, human development and carbon neutral strategy
April 2022
Energy is the basis of human development and the impetus of society progress. There are three sources of energy: energy of celestial body outside the Earth, the Earth energy and energy of interaction...
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...
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...
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,...
Basic principles of the whole petroleum system
August 2024
This paper expounds the basic principles and structures of the whole petroleum system to reveal the pattern of conventional oil/gas – tight oil/gas – shale oil/gas sequential accumulation and the hydrocarbon...
Development, challenges and strategies of natural gas industry under carbon neutral target in China
April 2024
In the mid-21st century, natural gas will enter its golden age, and the era of natural gas is arriving. This paper reviews the development stages of global natural gas industry and the enlightenment...