Search Results - "Petroleum science"

A review of CO2 storage in geological formations emphasizing modeling, monitoring and capacity estimation approaches by Ajayi, Temitope, Gomes, Jorge Salgado, Bera, Achinta

“…The merits of CO 2 capture and storage to the environmental stability of our world should not be underestimated as emissions of greenhouse gases cause serious…”
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A review of development methods and EOR technologies for carbonate reservoirs by Xu, Zheng-Xiao, Li, Song-Yan, Li, Bin-Fei, Chen, Dan-Qi, Liu, Zhong-Yun, Li, Zhao-Min

“…Carbonate reservoirs worldwide are complex in structure, diverse in form, and highly heterogeneous. Based on these characteristics, the reservoir stimulation…”
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Recent developments in high-performance Nafion membranes for hydrogen fuel cells applications by Zhu, Li-Yu, Li, Yu-Cheng, Liu, Jing, He, Jing, Wang, Lu-Ying, Lei, Jian-Du

“…As a promising alternative to petroleum fossil energy, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell has drawn considerable attention due to its low pollution…”
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Water shutoff and conformance improvement: an introduction by Seright, Randy, Brattekas, Bergit

“…This paper provides an introduction to the topic of water shutoff and conformance improvement. After indicating the volumes of water produced during oilfield…”
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Seismic impedance inversion based on cycle-consistent generative adversarial network by Wang, Yu-Qing, Wang, Qi, Lu, Wen-Kai, Ge, Qiang, Yan, Xin-Fei

“…Deep learning has achieved great success in a variety of research fields and industrial applications. However, when applied to seismic inversion, the shortage…”
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Review of surfactant-assisted chemical enhanced oil recovery for carbonate reservoirs: challenges and future perspectives by Pal, Sreela, Mushtaq, M., Banat, Fawzi, Al Sumaiti, Ali M.

“…A significant fraction of the conventional oil reserves globally is in carbonate formations which contain a substantial amount of residual oil. Since primary…”
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Advances in enhanced oil recovery technologies for low permeability reservoirs by Kang, Wan-Li, Zhou, Bo-Bo, Issakhov, Miras, Gabdullin, Marabek

“…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…”
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The effect of nanoparticles on reservoir wettability alteration: a critical review by Eltoum, Hilmy, Yang, Yu-Long, Hou, Ji-Rui

“…A novel concept of treating oil reservoirs by nanofluids is being developed to improve oil recovery and reduce the trapped oil in hydrocarbon reservoirs…”
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The mechanism of microwave rock breaking and its potential application to rock-breaking technology in drilling by Gao, Ming-Zhong, Yang, Ben-Gao, Xie, Jing, Ye, Si-Qi, Liu, Jun-Jun, Liu, Yi-Ting, Tang, Rui-Feng, Hao, Hai-Chun, Wang, Xuan, Wen, Xiang-Yue, Zhou, Xue-Min

“…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,…”
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The impact of political connections on firm pollution: New evidence based on heterogeneous environmental regulation by Wang, Zong-Run, Fu, Hai-Qin, Ren, Xiao-Hang

“…Increasing attention has been focused on the extent to which corporate political connections influence the growing pollution due to the rapid growth in the…”
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A review of fluid displacement mechanisms in surfactant-based chemical enhanced oil recovery processes: Analyses of key influencing factors by Bashir, Ahmed, Sharifi Haddad, Amin, Rafati, Roozbeh

“…Surfactant-based oil recovery processes are employed to lower the interfacial tension in immiscible displacement processes, change the wettability of rock to a…”
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Determination of shale macroscale modulus based on microscale measurement: A case study concerning multiscale mechanical characteristics by Li, Yong, Chen, Jian-Qi, Yang, Jiang-Hao, Liu, Ji-Shan, Tong, Wang-Shu

“…Shale mechanical properties are important for shale gas production, but the magnitudes are difficult to estimate, standard size cores are hard to sample, and…”
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A real-time intelligent lithology identification method based on a dynamic felling strategy weighted random forest algorithm by Yan, Tie, Xu, Rui, Sun, Shi-Hui, Hou, Zhao-Kai, Feng, Jin-Yu

“…Real-time intelligent lithology identification while drilling is vital to realizing downhole closed-loop drilling. The complex and changeable geological…”
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Distribution characteristics and oil mobility thresholds in lacustrine shale reservoir: Insights from N2 adsorption experiments on samples prior to and following hydrocarbon extraction by Bai, Long-Hui, Liu, Bo, Du, Yi-Jing, Wang, Bo-Yang, Tian, Shan-Si, Wang, Liu, Xue, Zhi-Qiang

“…The pore structure and oil content of shales have an important influence on the oil mobility and enrichment. In this study, the lacustrine shale samples from…”
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Microscale crack propagation in shale samples using focused ion beam scanning electron microscopy and three-dimensional numerical modeling by Liu, Xin, Meng, Si-Wei, Liang, Zheng-Zhao, Tang, Chun'an, Tao, Jia-Ping, Tang, Ji-Zhou

“…Reliable prediction of the shale fracturing process is a challenging problem in exploiting deep shale oil and gas resources. Complex fracture networks need to…”
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Active phase morphology engineering of NiMo/Al2O3 through La introduction for boosting hydrodesulfurization of 4,6-DMDBT by Liu, Ji-Xing, Liu, Xiang-Qi, Yan, Ri-Xin, Jia, Ling-Feng, Cheng, Hui-Fang, Liu, Hui, Huang, Yan, Hua, Ming-Qing, Li, Hua-Ming, Zhu, Wen-Shuai

“…Herein, we designed and constructed a mesoporous LaAlOx via a solvent evaporation induced self-assembly protocol. The structure and physicochemical property of…”
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Wettability alteration and oil recovery by spontaneous imbibition of smart water and surfactants into carbonates by Ahmadi, Saeb, Hosseini, Mostafa, Tangestani, Ebrahim, Mousavi, Seyyed Ebrahim, Niazi, Mohammad

“…Naturally fractured carbonate reservoirs have very low oil recovery efficiency owing to their wettability and tightness of matrix. However, smart water can…”
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Laboratory to field scale assessment for EOR applicability in tight oil reservoirs by Syed, Fahad Iqbal, Dahaghi, Amirmasoud Kalantari, Muther, Temoor

“…Tight oil reservoirs are contributing a major role to fulfill the overall crude oil needs, especially in the US. However, the dilemma is their ultra-tight…”
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Polymer flooding: Current status and future directions by Seright, R.S., Wang, Dongmei

“…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…”
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Generating geologically realistic 3D reservoir facies models using deep learning of sedimentary architecture with generative adversarial networks by Zhang, Tuan-Feng, Tilke, Peter, Dupont, Emilien, Zhu, Ling-Chen, Liang, Lin, Bailey, William

“…This paper proposes a novel approach for generating 3-dimensional complex geological facies models based on deep generative models. It can reproduce a wide…”
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