Development of Unconventional Oil and Gas Fields: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 161
Special Issue Editors
Interests: enhanced oil recovery; heavy oil fire flooding theory and method; unconventional in situ upgrading mechanism
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Interests: petroleum engineering; rock mechanics; coupled THMC behaviors in gas hydrate reservoirs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Unconventional oil and gas resources have gained increasing significance in light of the growing volatility of oil and gas prices. Effective and economical development of unconventional resources, including heavy oil, shale oil and shale gas, oil shale, tar sand, and gas hydrates, is the key to sustained hydrocarbon exploitation. Recent applications of advanced techniques and technologies have largely facilitated the efficacy of unconventional oil and gas development.
This Special Issue will present the latest advances in this field. With this aim in mind, we are inviting investigators to submit relevant original research articles, case studies, and review articles.
Topics of particular interest include (but are not limited to):
- Strategies for heavy oil and oil sand/tar sand development;
- Recent advances in in-situ combustion and thermal recovery;
- Effective exploitation of oil shale;
- Hydrogen energy production and utilization;
- Strategies for shale gas and shale oil reservoir development;
- Strategies for tight gas and tight oil reservoir development;
- Theories and techniques for the sustained exploitation of gas hydrates;
- Hydraulic fracturing techniques in the development of unconventional resources;
- Experimental and numerical modeling techniques related to unconventional resource development;
- Machine learning techniques related to unconventional resources development.
Prof. Dr. Renbao Zhao
Dr. Xuyang Guo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- heavy oil
- shale oil/gas
- oil shale
- tar sand
- thermal recovery
- in situ combustion
- gas hydrates
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