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A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "H1: Petroleum Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 7189

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Dr. Sanket J. Joshi

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Deputy Director, Oil and Gas Research Center, and Central Analytical and Applied Research Unit, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
Interests: energy and environment; enhanced oil recovery; microbial enhanced oil recovery; biofuels; surfactants; biosurfactants; biopolymers; gas transport; bioremediation; microbial biotechnology
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Dear Colleagues,

Due to the extremes of price fluctuations, uncertainties related to production cost and available resources, potential renewable energy alternatives, arguments about pollution, the role in greenhouse gas emissions, etc., the fossil fuels industry is continually at the centre of attention. Nevertheless, oil and gas will continue to play a major role in our energy portfolio for years to come, not merely because they are used as sources of transportation fuel, but mainly rather due to their numerous other applications, ranging from day-to-day activities to several other industrial sectors. Amongst these challenges, some major issues include the declining easy-to-recover resources (such as light crude oil), extremely challenging reservoirs, and production economy-cost competitiveness during such volatile market conditions, transport, storage, and environmental issues. Although the oil and gas industry has encountered such challenging times more than once in the past, it always brings new opportunities to devise and provide innovative, environmentally friendly and economic solutions, always emerging victorious. Some of the innovative practices in enhancing oil and gas recovery are the use of chemical, thermal, and biological techniques. Additional challenges concern the transport and storage sectors, providing great opportunities in carbon capture, utilization, and storage technology and hydrogen production and storage. Several oil companies have successfully implemented renewables in their oil and gas recovery and storage, for example, through the integration of solar energy to generate steam for heavy oil recovery, the use of CO₂ for EOR, the storage of hydrogen in depleted reservoirs, etc. Such novel techniques have shown tremendous potential for not only recovering additional oil from different types of formations, but in transport and storage as well. Several reports are available describing such applications at the laboratory and field scales—scaled up applications. The current Special Issue intends to cover topics such as innovative and novel applications in the oil and gas sector, with emphasis on the enhancement (or improvement) of oil and gas recovery, their transportation, and storage for future use.

Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:

Novel chemical and thermal techniques for enhanced oil recovery;
Microbial enhanced oil recovery;
Innovations in crude oil recovery methods: ASP, DES, ISC, SAGD, MGI, etc.;
Basic and recent updates in gas recovery methods;
Natural gas and gas hydrates as future energy sources;
Basics and advances in carbon capture, utilization, and storage;
Advances in gas storage techniques;
Advances in hydrogen as an energy source;
Issues in oil and gas transport and storage, root cause analysis, and possible innovative solutions;
Mathematical modelling and simulations: laboratory studies and field developments;
Laboratory/field applications and case studies.

Dr. Sanket J. Joshi
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Keywords

enhanced oil recovery
microbial enhanced oil recovery
hybrid EOR
gas recovery
natural gas and gas hydrates
carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS)
gas transport and storage
blue and green hydrogen
crude oil and gas transport
mathematical modelling
simulations
laboratory and field applications

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Storage of Compressed Natural Gases

by Gulnur Zakirova, Evgeny Krapivsky, Anastasia Berezovskaya and Artem Borisov

Energies 2023, 16(20), 7208; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16207208 - 23 Oct 2023

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The article analyzes the modern theory and practice of transportation and storage of compressed natural gas. The expediency of the inclusion of a floating storage berth for the loading of gas carriers and container ships into the infrastructure of marine transportation of compressed natural gas is considered. Requirements for storage berth are formulated. It is shown that without using a marine mooring storage facility, the loading time of a gas carrier will considerably increase, and the economic efficiency of compressed gas transportation will lower due to the considerable time of loading and unloading of a gas carrier. The construction of a storage berth is proposed, and calculations of storage parameters and calculation of its buoyancy are made. The possibility of using the REFPROP vs. 9.1 software package to automate the selection of the composition of a multicomponent hydrocarbon mixture for further use at the selected range of temperatures and pressures is substantiated. The use of the system is considered in the example of phase equilibrium of a multicomponent hydrocarbon mixture. Full article

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Application of Superparamagnetic Nanoparticle (SPM-NP) Heating in Wax Removal during Crude Oil Pipeline Pigging

by Hanqing Zhang, Huiyuan Li, Weidong Li, Jianguang Wang, Wenda Wang, Yongjuan Zhang, Lin Teng, Pengbo Yin and Xin Huang

Energies 2022, 15(17), 6464; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15176464 - 4 Sep 2022

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Mechanical pigging is a major wax removal technique in crude oil pipeline transportation. To lower the risk of pig stalling accidents in pigging, a superparamagnetic nanoparticle (SPM-NP) pigging system that consists of an electromagnetic pig and nanopaint is designed to soften the wax deposit and reduce the wax resistive force. During pigging, the induction coil on the pig generates an alternating magnetic field, which induces heat production of the nanopaint on the pipe wall. The COMSOL software is used to simulate the temperature distribution of the wax layer. Yield stress measurements reveal that the wax layer yield stress is nearly linearly correlated to temperature. Compared with a regular pig, the SPM-NP pigging system reduces the wax resistive force by up to 20~40%, with an acceptable electrical current intensity of about 20 A in the given cases. Multiple factors affecting the wax layer temperature were analyzed. SPM-NP heating could be a promising technique for wax remediation and hydrate prevention. Full article

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Carbon Dioxide Separation Technologies: Applicable to Net Zero

by Gourav Kumar Rath, Gaurav Pandey, Sakshi Singh, Nadezhda Molokitina, Asheesh Kumar, Sanket Joshi and Geetanjali Chauhan

Energies 2023, 16(10), 4100; https://doi.org/10.3390/en16104100 - 15 May 2023

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Carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from burning fossil fuels play a crucial role in global warming/climate change. The effective removal of CO₂ from the point sources or atmosphere (CO₂ capture), its conversion to value-added products (CO₂ utilization), and long-term geological storage, or CO₂ sequestration, has captured the attention of several researchers and policymakers. This review paper illustrates all kinds of CO₂ capture/separation processes and the challenges faced in deploying these technologies. This review described the research efforts put forth in gas separation technologies. Recent advances in the existing gas separation technologies have been highlighted, and future directives for commercial deployment have also been outlined. Full article

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