Deformation, Diagenesis, and Reservoir in Fault Damage Zone

Dear Colleagues,

Fault damage zone, including the narrow fault core and wider damage zone, typically has complicated architecture and a profound impact on the mechanical, hydraulic, and petrophysical properties of the host rocks. There is also fluid activity within the fracture network. The complicated structural–diagenetic process in the fault damage zone significantly influences the architecture and subsequently heterogeneous reservoir along the fault zone. Therefore, geological, geophysical, and engineering technologies have been widely used to detect the architecture, deformation, and reservoir in the fault damage zone. However, there is still a big challenge in deciphering the interaction of the deformation and diagenesis processes, and their effects on the reservoir in the fault damage zone.

This Special Issue, “Deformation, Diagenesis, and Reservoir in Fault Damage Zone”, seeks high-quality works focusing on the latest novel advances in fault damage zones. This Special Issue includes, but is not limited to, the following:

• Fracture networks and deformation, fluid–rock interaction, and diagenesis and reservoirs in carbonate fault damage zones.
• The timing and evolution of deformation and diagenesis, interaction between fractures and diagenesis, and the process and evolution of fault damage zones.
• Methods and technologies, and applications and case studies, in the description of fault damage zones and fractured reservoirs.

Prof. Dr. Guanghui Wu
Prof. Dr. Tongwen Jiang
Dr. Xuefei Yang
Guest Editors

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• fault zone
• carbonate reservoir
• deformation
• fracture network
• diagenesis
• fracture–diagenesis interaction