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A review of high-performance MEMS sensors for resource exploration and geophysical applications

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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Crude oil wax: A review on formation, experimentation, prediction, and remediation techniques

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

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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Whole petroleum system and ordered distribution pattern of conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs

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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Standards and methods for dent assessment and failure prediction of pipelines: A critical review

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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CO2 storage with enhanced gas recovery (CSEGR): A review of experimental and numerical studies

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

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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International experience of carbon neutrality and prospects of key technologies: Lessons for China

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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Wettability of different clay mineral surfaces in shale: Implications from molecular dynamics simulations

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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Rock thin-section analysis and identification based on artificial intelligent technique

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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Advances in enhanced oil recovery technologies for low permeability reservoirs

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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A review of fluid displacement mechanisms in surfactant-based chemical enhanced oil recovery processes: Analyses of key influencing factors

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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An overview of chemical enhanced oil recovery and its status in India

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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A review on the structure-performance relationship of the catalysts during propane dehydrogenation reaction

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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Prediction of the viscosity of natural gas at high temperature and high pressure using free-volume theory and entropy scaling

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 critical review of self-diverting acid treatments applied to carbonate oil and gas reservoirs

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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Application of nanomaterial for enhanced oil recovery

Nanofluid offers more opportunities and challenges over the traditional surfactant and polymer solutions during enhanced oil recovery (commonly referred to as tertiary oil recovery) due to its remarkable...

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Chemical treatment for sand production control: A review of materials, methods, and field operations

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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Experiment and numerical simulation of distribution law of water-based corrosion inhibitor in natural gas gathering and transportation pipeline

The transmission medium of natural gas gathering and transportation pipelines usually contains corrosive gases, which will cause serious corrosion on the inner wall of the pipelines when they coexist...

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Socio-economic and energy-environmental impacts of technological change on China's agricultural development under the carbon neutrality strategy

Promoting agricultural modernisation through technological change is an important strategy for China. China's carbon neutrality strategy is leading to systemic socio-economic changes that could exacerbate...

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A machine learning-based study of multifactor susceptibility and risk control of induced seismicity in unconventional reservoirs

A comprehensive dataset from 594 fracturing wells throughout the Duvernay formation near Fox Creek, Alberta, is collected to quantify the influences of geological, geomechanical, and operational features...

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A mini review on oxidative dehydrogenation of propane over boron nitride catalysts

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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What decarbonized the residential building operation worldwide since the 2000s

Decarbonization in operational residential buildings worldwide has become critical in achieving the carbon neutral target due to the growing household energy demand. To accelerate the pace of global...

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The impact of political connections on firm pollution: New evidence based on heterogeneous environmental regulation

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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The mechanism of microwave rock breaking and its potential application to rock-breaking technology in drilling

The exploration and development of oil and gas resources have shifted from shallow to deep and ultradeep. The difficulty of rock breaking has also increased, introducing new challenges to traditional...

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