Petroleum Engineering: Production Forecasting, Process Design, and Implementation

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality original research articles and review papers from the fields of Production Forecasting, Process Design, and Implementation in Petroleum Engineering. We encourage researchers from various fields within the journal’s scope to contribute original papers highlighting the latest developments in their research field or to invite relevant experts and colleagues to do so. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to:

• Production forecasting for various enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods;
• Design and field implementation of various EOR processes;
• Machine learning applications in Petroleum Engineering;
• Production forecasting for simulated horizontal wells with multi-stage hydraulic fractures;
• Modeling and optimizing multi-stage hydraulic fractures;
• Advanced optimization algorithms for production forecasting;
• Experimental and numerical modeling of single and multiphase flows in oil and gas reservoirs;
• Design and field implementation of water shutoff technologies and conformance control treatments;
• Design and field implementation of CO₂ utilization and storage;
• Reservoir evaluation of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs;
• Reservoir characterization of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.

Dr. Wei Zhou
Dr. Hongbin Yang
Dr. Martin Ma
Guest Editors

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