Shale oil and gas resources contribute significantly to the energy production in the US
Greenhouse gas emissions come from combustion of fossil fuels from potential sources of …

The difficulty of deploying remaining oil from unconventional reservoirs and the increasing
CO2 emissions has prompted researchers to delve into carbon emissions through Carbon …

The Permian Lucaogou Formation of the Jimsar Sag in the Junggar Basin, NW China, is one
of the largest areas of oil exploration and exploitation in the lacustrine shale sequence in …

This work develops a modified minimum miscibility pressure (MMP) calculation algorithm
that couples the effects of pore size distribution, capillarity, and confinement. Also, a volume …

Due to the effect of compaction, stress-dependent properties such as permeability, porosity,
and pore size vary in the vertical direction of shale reservoir. The heterogeneity of physical …

Advances in horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing have unlocked tight-oil
resources, such as the Montney Formation in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin …

Miscible carbon dioxide (CO 2) injection has proven to be an effective method of recovering
oil from unconventional reservoirs. An accurate and efficient procedure to calculate the oil …

Optimal Transport (OT), also known as Wasserstein distance, is a valuable metric for
comparing probability distributions. Owing to its appealing statistical properties, researchers …

The phase behavior of reservoir fluids in tight/shale reservoirs can be dramatically altered
from the bulk phase behavior due to the strong capillarity and confinement effects introduced …

Extremely small pore size, low porosity, and ultra-low permeability are among the
characteristics of shale rocks. In tight shale reservoirs, the nano-confinement effects that …