Technologies for Oil/Gas Exploration: Recent Advances
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Earth Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2023) | Viewed by 4555
Special Issue Editors
Interests: petroleum geology; source rocks, petroleum migration; petroleum accumulation mechanisms; petroleum exploration; petroleum resource evaluation; organic geochemistry
Interests: oil and gas geochemistry; petroleum exploration; source rocks
Interests: hydrocarbon accumulation; formation mechanism of high-quality source rocks; deep oil; clastic reservoirs
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will highlight recent advancements in oil and gas exploration technologies and theories. Relative research aims to provide information on the characteristics, evolution, and formation mechanisms of deep or ancient petroleum systems with both conventional and unconventional plays, as exploration in these oil and gas systems has seen significant advances in recent years, and they are expected to become primary exploration targets in the future. All technical and theoretical advances related to oil and gas exploration, such as source rock evaluation, hydrocarbon generation processes, oil and gas phase evolution, reservoir description, petroleum migration, petroleum accumulation, and geophysical methods, can be included.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
1) Geochemistry applications in petroleum system definition;
2) Geochemistry characterization of petroleum systems;
3) Fluid–rock and fluid–fluid interaction in petroleum systems;
4) Hydrocarbon migration and charge risk assessment in petroleum systems;
5) Mode of diagenesis in petroleum systems;
6) Evolution of hydrocarbon phase states in petroleum systems;
7) Hydrocarbon source–oil–gas correlation;
8) Evolution and preservation of ancient oil and gas reservoirs;
9) Enrichment pattern and main controlling factors of deep reservoirs;
10) Methods for successful exploration of ancient and deep reservoirs.
Prof. Dr. Zhonghong Chen
Dr. Youjun Tang
Dr. Xiujian Ding
Guest Editors
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