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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Synthetic polymers: A review of applications in drilling fluids
Available online 19 August 2023
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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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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Review on the challenges and strategies in oil and gas industry's transition towards carbon neutrality in China
Available online 13 June 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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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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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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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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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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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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Quantitative characterization of shale pore connectivity and controlling factors using spontaneous imbibition combined with nuclear magnetic resonance T2 and T1-T2
August 2023
Shale oil can be extracted from shale by using interconnected pore networks. The migration of hydrocarbon molecules within the shale is controlled by pore connectivity. However, assessing the pore connectivity...
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Nanoparticle-reinforced foam system for enhanced oil recovery (EOR): Mechanistic review and perspective
August 2023
Boosted by economic development and rising living standards, the world's carbon dioxide emissions remain high. Maintaining temperature rises below 1.5 °C by the end of the century requires rapid global...
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Prediction of the viscosity of natural gas at high temperature and high pressure using free-volume theory and entropy scaling
October 2023
Eighteen models based on two equations of state (EoS), three viscosity models, and four mixing rules were constructed to predict the viscosities of natural gases at high temperature and high pressure...
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A mini review on oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over boron nitride catalysts
August 2023
Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane is an attractive route for the synthesis of propylene due to its favorable thermodynamic and kinetic characteristics, however, it is challenging to realize high...
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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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The impact of political connections on firm pollution: New evidence based on heterogeneous environmental regulation
February 2023
Increasing attention has been focused on the extent to which corporate political connections influence the growing pollution due to the rapid growth in the popularity of firm pollution in developing...
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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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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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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 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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Adsorbed and free gas occurrence characteristics and controlling factors of deep shales in the southern Sichuan Basin, China
June 2023
Deep shale gas (3500–4500 m) will be the important succeeding field for the growth of shale gas production in China. Under the condition of high temperature and high pressure in deep shale gas reservoirs,...
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