China began to build its national shale gas demonstration area in 2012. The central
exploration, drilling, and development technologies for medium and shallow marine shale …

Coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical analyses in heavy oil reservoirs are essential for
engineers to evaluate and optimize the field operations in terms of safety, economy, and …

Rock salt formation has a worldwide distribution. In China, a typical area for rock salt
formation is in Tarim Basin, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Northwest of China …

Mudstone stringers in an oil sand reservoir can significantly affect the propagation of the
steam chamber in the process of steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD). The micro …

Secant pile walls (SPWs) are frequently employed as temporary excavation support systems
in urban areas; thus, they are useless once permanent foundations and basements have …

Steam assisted gravity drainage technology has been widely applied to bitumen recovery in
Karamay, northwest China. Steam circulation prior to production is designed to establish the …

Unconventional oil and gas reservoirs are mostly characterized by unconnected pores and
abnormal pore pressures. These conventional effective stress theories, such as Biot's theory …

The techniques of natural gas production from hydrate reservoir are significantly different
from those used for conventional oil and gas resources, because the virgin hydrate will …

Water injection can effectively improve the reservoir porosity and permeability by shear
dilation in the vicinity of wellbores. In this paper, shear dilation and permeability …

Viscosity-temperature behavior is important for the thermal recovery of bitumen: firstly, it is a
criterion for evaluating the evolution of mobility with temperature, which affects oil …