A composite temporary plugging technology for hydraulic fracture diverting treatment in gas shales: Using degradable particle/powder gels (DPGs) and proppants as …

Y Zhong, H Zhang, Y Feng, J Li, Y Yang… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
Temporary plugging and diverting fracturing is one kind of technology for efficiency-
enhancing the productivity of oil and gas wells, which is widely used in hydraulic fracturing …

Lattice Boltzmann model for oil/water two-phase flow in nanoporous media considering heterogeneous viscosity, liquid/solid, and liquid/liquid slip

H Wang, W Wang, Y Su, Z Jin - SPE Journal, 2022 - onepetro.org
Due to intermolecular interactions, the oil/water two-phase flow behaviors in shale
nanoporous media are complex and diverse, which cannot be characterized by a …

Characterization of multiphase flow in shale oil reservoirs considering multiscale porous media by high-resolution numerical simulation

Z Lei, J Li, Z Chen, X Dai, D Ji, Y Wang, Y Liu - SPE Journal, 2023 - onepetro.org
Multiphase flow behavior in the complex porous media of lacustrine shale oil is critical to the
oil production performance. Shale oil reservoir processes spatial spaces of multiscale …

Generalized finite difference method (GFDM) based analysis for subsurface flow problems in anisotropic formation

W Zhan, X Rao, H Zhao, H Zhang, S Hu… - Engineering Analysis with …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper applies the meshless generalized finite difference method (GFDM) to analyze the
subsurface flow problem in anisotropic formations for the first time, and develops the …

Ganglia dynamics during imbibition and drainage processes in nanoporous systems

T Zhang, L Zhang, Y Zhao, R Zhang, D Zhang, X He… - Physics of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We study the gas–water transient imbibition and drainage processes in two-dimensional
nanoporous media using our recently developed lattice Boltzmann model. To describe the …

Carbon Dioxide Flow Behavior through Nanopores: Implication for CO2 Sequestration in Unconventional Gas Reservoirs

S Wu, H Wang, G Yuan, B Hu, Z Sun… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
CO2 sequestration is a promising approach to achieve the net-zero emission across the
world, expecting to mitigate the urgent climate change and global warming. In this article …

Numerical Simulation of Ultra-Low Permeability Reservoirs: Progress and Challenges

C Liu - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Over the last two decades, unconventional natural gas resources from tight sandstone and
shale reservoirs have garnered substantial interest and have become a focal point for the oil …

页岩气藏两相流固耦合无网格数值模拟.

吴建发, 朱维耀, 张德良, 陈震… - Special Oil & Gas …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
针对页岩气藏受两相复杂流动与流固耦合作用影响导致产能预测难度大的问题,
将渗流场分为主改造区, 次改造区和未改造区, 结合多流态统一输运模型及等效连续非均匀介质 …

A new meshless method to solve the two-phase thermo-hydro-mechanical multi-physical field coupling problems in shale reservoirs

W Zhu, Z Chen, K Liu - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficient development of shale reservoirs relies on multi-stage hydraulic fracturing
technology in horizontal wells involving the difficulty of multi-scale flow for either gas or …

Inclusion of anisotropy in understanding rock deformation and inter-well fracture growth in layered formation through CZM based XFEM

JJ Pidho, AG Batte, MJ AlTammar, Y Cheng… - Geoenergy Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
In layered formations such as the Wufeng-Longmaxi marine shale, mechanical rock
properties may be uniform horizontally within a layer, but vary vertically, and from layer to …