Advances in Gas Hydrate Drilling and Exploitation Technology
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 August 2024 | Viewed by 960
Special Issue Editors
Interests: drilling and exploitation technology of gas hydrate; drilling and exploitation technology of oil shale; new technology for rock crushing; development of geothermal resources
Interests: drilling and exploitation technology of gas hydrate; mechanism of hydraulic fracture
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The development of alternative energy sources is essential to the future world energy paradigm due to the rapid reduction in the reserves of conventional oil and gas reservoirs. Natural gas hydrates, which are widely distributed in huge reserves worldwide with low-carbon properties, have become a research highlight in the energy field in recent years. The geological mechanics, reservoir properties, and exploitation mechanisms of natural gas hydrate reservoirs are significantly different from those of conventional oil and gas reservoirs. This leads to the need for special theories, technologies and processes for the economic and safe development of hydrate reservoirs. This Special Issue aims to explore the most recent advances in geological mechanics, drilling mechanics, exploitation technologies, and stimulation technologies involved in the drilling and exploitation of natural gas hydrate.
Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
Reservoir characterization of natural gas hydrate;
Basic theory of natural gas hydrate and multi-phase seepage in reservoir;
Hydrate-bearing sediments mechanics and reservoir drilling mechanics;
Drilling technology for nature gas hydrate reservoirs;
Reservoir stimulation technology for natural gas hydrate;
Environmental issues and challenges in natural gas hydrate exploitation.
Prof. Dr. Chen Chen
Dr. Xiuping Zhong
Dr. Dongbin Pan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- natural gas hydrate
- mechanics of sediments
- multiphase seepage
- reservoir stimulation
- reservoir description
