Shale oil migration across multiple scales: A review of characterization methods and different patterns

Z Gao, L Bai, Q Hu, Z Yang, Z Jiang, Z Wang, H Xin… - Earth-Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
Oil migration in shale formations across multiple scales from nanometers to meters, a topic
without receiving sufficient attention, is of great significance to the accumulation and …

Pore-scale study of microbial hydrogen consumption and wettability alteration during underground hydrogen storage

N Liu, AR Kovscek, MA Fernø, N Dopffel - Frontiers in Energy …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Hydrogen can be a renewable energy carrier and is suggested to store renewable energy
and mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. Subsurface storage of hydrogen in salt caverns …

Experimental preparation and mechanism analysis of a neotype composite gel for coal spontaneous combustion prevention and coal-fire extinguishment

M Yu, Z Liu, H Li, L Wang, M Wu, J Li, Y Yu - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Spontaneous coal combustion (SCC) seriously threatens the safety production of coal
mines. A neoteric irreversibly thermo-sensitive composite gel based on konjac glucomannan …

2D microfluidic devices for pore-scale phenomena investigation: A review

A Massimiani, F Panini, SL Marasso, M Cocuzza… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Underground porous media are complex multiphase systems, where the behavior at the
macro-scale is affected by physical phenomena occurring at the pore (micro)-scale. The …

Coupled pressure-driven flow and spontaneous imbibition in shale oil reservoirs

X Wang, S Wang, W Wu, Y Liang, F Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Coupled pressure-driven (viscous) flow and spontaneous imbibition are the main regimes
during shale oil production. Revealing the unclear mechanisms of this coupled flow is a …

Investigation of the mechanism and effect of citric acid-based deep eutectic solvents inhibiting hydration and expansion of gas shale clay minerals

J Bai, X Feng, Z Chen, L Tao, N Zhang, W Shi… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
This study developed a shale hydration inhibitor using a citric acid-based deep eutectic
solvent (Cit-DES) and hexadecylammonium bromide (cetyltrimethylammonium bromide) to …

Experimental study on fluid flow behaviors of waterflooding fractured-vuggy oil reservoir using two-dimensional visual model

S Liu, Y Zhang, H Du, J Liu, Z Zhou, Z Wang… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The carbonate reservoir plays a pivotal role in conventional oil and gas reservoirs. However,
due to limited knowledge of fluid flow characteristics in fractured-vuggy carbonate formations …

Mitigating water blockage in shale matrix by acidizing or oxidizing treatment: Evidence from transport pathway change and diffusivity enhancement

Q Chen, H Hu, Y Kang, L You, Y Zhou, Q Cheng… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2022 - Elsevier
A relatively large number of pH-sensitive minerals (eg, calcite, dolomite, siderite) and redox-
sensitive compositions (eg, organic matter, siderite, pyrite, and chlorite) are present in gas …

Reasons for low flowback behaviors of water-based fluids in tight sandstone gas reservoirs

J Tian, C Qin, Y Kang, L You, N Jia, J Song - Journal of Petroleum Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water-based working fluids are widely applied in the development of tight gas formations.
However, these fluids' flowback rate is generally low than 50%, resulting in a large amount …

[HTML][HTML] Permeability enhancement and coal fines removal through oxidation treatment in coalbed methane reservoirs

Y Lu, Y Kang, C Bu, Y Li, C Lin, Z You - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
This study utilized anthracite coal samples from Zhijin Block and applied NaClO as the
oxidant to investigate the effects of oxidation treatment on permeability enhancement and …