New Challenges in Unconventional Oil and Gas Reservoirs
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 December 2023) | Viewed by 12966
Special Issue Editor
Interests: shale gas; shale oil; reservoir evaluation; accumulation mechanism
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unconventional oil and gas have become a major focus of research worldwide. The availability of these unconventional resources far exceeds that of conventional oil and gas. Although unconventional oil and gas were never considered valuable in the past, in the United States and China in particular, unconventional means of production have now surpassed conventional ones. Unconventional oil and gas face many new challenges as new issues arise in their exploration and development. For example, whether shale gas can migrate on a large scale and shale oil can be generated artificially have become questions requiring urgent answers.
This Special Issue aims to present and disseminate the new challenges of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs in order to promote exploration in this field.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- All aspects of shale gas, shale oil, tight gas, tight oil, coalbed methane, gas hydrate, etc.;
- Geochemical characteristics;
- Mineralogy and petrology characteristics;
- Pore and fracture;
- Tectonic evolution;
- Accumulation conditions;
- Geophysical interpretation;
- Rock mechanics;
- Geological engineering.
Dr. Xianglu Tang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- new challenges
- shale gas
- shale oil
- tight gas
- tight oil
- coalbed methane
- gas hydrate
- geological characteristics
- geophysical characteristics
- geological engineering