Effects of CH4/CO2 multi-component gas on components and properties of tight oil during CO2 utilization and storage: Physical experiment and composition numerical simulation
Available online 6 June 2023
An essential technology of carbon capture, utilization and storage-enhanced oil recovery (CCUS-EOR) for tight oil reservoirs is CO2 huff-puff followed by associated produced gas reinjection. In this...
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Combining Unscented Kalman Filter and wavelet neural network for anti-slug
Available online 3 June 2023
The stability of the subsea oil and gas production system is heavily influenced by slug flow. One successful method of managing slug flow is to use top valve control based on subsea pipeline pressure....
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Experimental study on solid particle migration and production behaviors during marine natural gas hydrate dissociation by depressurization
Available online 1 June 2023
Sand production is one of the main obstacles restricting gas extraction efficiency and safety from marine natural gas hydrate (NGH) reservoirs. Particle migration within the NGH reservoir dominates...
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A BiGRU joint optimized attention network for recognition of drilling conditions
Available online 1 June 2023
The identification and recording of drilling conditions are crucial for ensuring drilling safety and efficiency. However, the traditional approach of relying on the subjective determination of drilling...
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Numerical study of hydraulic fracturing in the sectorial well-factory considering well interference and stress shadowing
Available online 29 May 2023
In the Changqing Oilfield in northwest China, when traditional petroleum exploitation encounters forestry reserves or water source protection areas, sectorial well-factory design is proposed. The most...
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Developing single-atom catalyst-based epoxy coating with active nanocatalytic anticorrosion performance in oxygen environment
Available online 27 May 2023
The stimuli-responsive anticorrosion coatings have drawn great attention as a prospective corrosion protection approach due to their smart self-repairing properties. In contrast to passive protection...
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Experimental study on the degree and damage-control mechanisms of fuzzy-ball-induced damage in single and multi-layer commingled tight reservoirs
Available online 23 May 2023
Fuzzy-ball working fluids (FBWFs) have been successfully applied in different development phases of tight reservoirs. Field reports revealed that FBWFs satisfactorily met all the operational and reservoir...
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Effect of nanocomposite pour point depressant EVAL/CNT on flow properties of waxy crude oil
Available online 22 May 2023
The nanocomposite EVAL-CNT was produced by chemical grafting in the solution system through the esterification of ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (EVAL) and carboxylated multi-walled carbon nanotubes...
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New insights into the mechanism of reactive adsorption desulfurization on Ni/ZnO catalysts: Theoretical evidence showing the existence of interfacial sulfur transfer pathway and the essential role of hydrogen
Available online 22 May 2023
As well known in the petroleum industry and academia, Ni/ZnO catalysts have excellent desulfurization performance. However, the sulfur transfer mechanism of reactive adsorption desulfurization (RADS)...
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Gas storage in shale pore system: A review of the mechanism, control and assessment
Available online 22 May 2023
In the past 15 years, the shale gas revolution and large-scale commercial developments in the United States have driven the exploration and development of shale plays worldwide. Among many factors affecting...
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Catalyst grading technology for promoting the diesel hydrocracking to naphtha
Available online 20 May 2023
This paper reports the application of multi-component hydrocracking catalyst grading technology in diesel hydrocracking system to increase naphtha, and studies the influence of catalyst systems with...
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Lacustrine shale oiliness influenced by diabase intrusions in the Paleogene Funing Formation, Subei Basin, China
Available online 19 May 2023
The research on the correlation between hydrocarbon accumulations and magmatic activities has always attracted aroused much wide attention. Existing research has primarily the hydrocarbon generations...
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Mixed-mode fracture behavior in deep shale reservoirs under different loading rates and temperatures
Available online 18 May 2023
In the last years, shale gas has gradually substituted oil and coal as the main sources of energy in the world. Compared with shallow shale gas reservoirs, deep shale is characterized by low permeability,...
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Quantitative characterization of vertical zonation of Mesozoic granite weathering reservoirs in the coastal area of eastern Fujian Province, China
Available online 18 May 2023
Weathering crust reservoirs have obvious vertical zonation, which is the focus of weathering crust reservoir research, but there is a lack of quantitative characterization indexes. To achieve the quantitative...
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An unequal fracturing stage spacing optimization model for hydraulic fracturing that considers cementing interface integrity
Available online 18 May 2023
Determining reasonable fracturing stage spacing is the key to horizontal well fracturing. Different from traditional stage spacing optimization methods based on the principle of maximum stimulated reservoir...
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Eco-friendly aqueous foam stabilized by cellulose microfibers with great salt tolerance and high temperature resistance
Available online 16 May 2023
A low-cost eco-friendly aqueous foam, especially the robust foam with great tolerance to high salinity and high temperature, is in great demand in the oil industry, e.g., oil and gas well or geothermal...
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Temporal variations in geochemistry of hydraulic fracturing fluid and flowback water in a tight oil reservoir
Available online 16 May 2023
Hydraulic fracturing facilitates the development and exploitation of unconventional reservoirs. In this study, the injected hydraulic fracturing fluid (HFF) and flowback and produced water (FPW) in...
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Synthesis and mechanism of environmentally friendly high temperature and high salt resistant lubricants
Available online 16 May 2023
With the exploration and development of deep and ultra-deep oil and gas, high torque and high friction during the drilling of deep and ultra-deep wells become one of the key issues affecting drilling...
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Comparative pyrolysis kinetics of heavy oil and its SARA fractions using distributed activation energy model
Available online 15 May 2023
The pyrolysis behaviors of Qingdao vacuum residue (QD-VR) and its SARA (saturates, aromatics, reins, and asphaltenes) fractions were evaluated by thermo-gravimetric with mass spectrometer (TG-MS). The...
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Better use of experience from other reservoirs for accurate production forecasting by learn-to-learn method
Available online 8 May 2023
To assess whether a development strategy will be profitable enough, production forecasting is a crucial and difficult step in the process. The development history of other reservoirs in the same class...
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Effect of hydraulic fracturing induced stress field on weak surface activation during unconventional reservoir development
Available online 6 May 2023
Unconventional reservoirs usually contain many weak surfaces such as faults, laminae and natural fractures, and effective activation and utilization of these weak surfaces in reservoirs can significantly...
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Comprehensive evaluation of chemical breakers for multistage network ultra-high strength gel
Available online 6 May 2023
Polymer gels have been accepted as a useful tool to address many sealing operations such as drilling and completion, well stimulation, wellbore integrity, water and gas shutoff, etc. Previously, we...
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Micro-macro fracture mechanism of heterogeneous granite in percussive drilling
Available online 6 May 2023
The conven,tional rotary rock breaking method faces a technical bottleneck in improving the rate of penetration (ROP) in deep hard formations. Percussive drilling is the most potential approach to increase...
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The investigation of multiple factors on elastic anisotropy of artificial shale based on the orthogonal experiment
Available online 1 May 2023
Elastic anisotropy of shales is critical to accurate constraints for rock physical models, quantitative interpretation and hydraulic fracturing. However, the causes of elastic anisotropy of shales are...
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Evaluation of hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells in tight reservoirs based on the deep neural network with physical constraints
April 2023
Accurate diagnosis of fracture geometry and conductivity is of great challenge due to the complex morphology of volumetric fracture network. In this study, a DNN (deep neural network) model was proposed...
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