Subsurface Energy and Environmental Protection 2024
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H: Geo-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 1220
Special Issue Editors
Interests: underground oil remediation; enhanced oil recovery; carbon utilization and storage; microfluidic applications
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Interests: unconventional resources; shale formation evaluation; sustainable energy; CO2 geosequsation
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Interests: enhanced oil recovery; microfluidics/nanofluidics; transport in porous media; hydraulic fracturing; CO2 sequestration
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Interests: wettability; hydrodynamic and electrokinetic flow; unconventional hydrocarbon recovery; gas geo-storage
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Interests: geomechanics; rock mechanics; rock physics of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs; natural gas hydrate reservoirs; deep coalbed methane reservoirs; geothermal reservoirs with artificial intelligence; big data and data mining; digital rock analysis; 2D nuclear magnetic resonance technology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As the oil and gas industry develops, certain accidents, including the 2010 Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, are bound to occur. A large number of harmful components, such as aromatics, polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), etc., enter the surrounding environments and pose a great threat to the ecosystem and human health. Therefore, efficient remediation and treatment methods should be developed to clean the contaminants.
Besides the existing environmental problems in the oil and gas field, as the global awareness of environmental protection increases and the relative regulations and policies become stricter, there is an urgent need to improve the environmental monitoring and control during the drilling and production process and to develop environmentally friendly materials and techniques.
Furthermore, the worldwide agreement on controlling carbon emission stimulates the research and field study in CO2-enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and sequestration, and also promotes the study of low-carbon energy resources (such as natural gas hydrates and related issues in sustainable energies, including underground hydrogen storage (UHS), geothermal exploitation, etc.).
This Special Issue focuses on topics including, but not limited to, issues listed above, and we invite authors to submit original and high-quality research and review articles addressing these issues using experimental methods, computational tools, or theoretical analysis.
Dr. Xiaopu Wang
Dr. Yujie Yuan
Dr. Yujing Du
Dr. Bin Pan
Dr. Naser Golsanami
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oil and gas contamination/remediation
- environmental monitoring and control
- environmental friendly materials and techniques in oil and gas development
- environmental issues regarding the exploitation of natural gas hydrates
- enhanced oil recovery (EOR)
- microbial enhanced oil recovery
- CO2 enhanced oil recovery
- CO2 capture, utilization and storage (CCUS)
- underground hydrogen storage (UHS)
- geothermal exploitation
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