Advances in Reservoir Engineering
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Science and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 May 2025 | Viewed by 1546
Special Issue Editors
Interests: enhanced oil recovery; radioactive waste; physical and numerical modelling; geothermal; oil; gas; reservoir engineering
Interests: reservoir engineering; transport in porous media; underground storage; enhanced oil recovery; well stimulation methods
Interests: reservoir engineering; experimental modelling-SCAL analysis; enhanced oil recovery; streaming potential; convective flow CO2 storage; surfactant/Low salinity/foams; teaching
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is generally recognised that petroleum reservoir engineering has its roots in the work of Monsieur Henry Darcy (1803–1858), who sought to improve the quality of life in his home town of Dijon in France. Since then, reservoir engineering has made an unprecedented contribution to the development of mankind with the emergence of the oil and gas industry. Today, the environmental problems caused by rapid industrialisation are once again being solved with the know-how and technology of RE, as in the case of the production of renewable geothermal energy and the injection of excess CO2 into geological formations. These challenges also necessitate the constant updating (upgrading) of RE, which also benefits from the technological advances of other sectors, and sometimes, it is beneficial to take a short break to look back with an expert eye.
We propose such a pause to assess and review the progress made in petroleum reservoir engineering in recent decades and to take this opportunity to reflect on how RE may impact the future for humans.
Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- The philosophy of RE; what and why?
- PVT–phase behaviour
- Physical and numerical modelling in RE
- RE of EOR operations; recovery processes
- RE of geothermal operations
- RE of geological storage; CO2, H2, and natural gas
- Reservoir characterization, tests, and monitoring
- Scientific and technological progress; support of AI and ML
Dr. Hakan Alkan
Prof. Dr. Mohd Amro
Dr. Antje van der Net
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- reservoir engineering
- petrophysics
- numerical reservoir simulation
- enhanced oil recovery
- geothermal reservoir engineering
- geological storage
- CCS
- reservoir characterization
- phase–PVT behaviour
- reservoir monitoring
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