Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) in Unconventional Oil and Gas
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Systems".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 April 2025 | Viewed by 79
Special Issue Editors
Interests: chemical EOR; machine learning; CO2-EOR; unconventional reservoirs
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Interests: enhanced oil recovery; CCUS; spontaneous imbibition; mathematical modeling; numerical simulation
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Interests: imbibition and capillary action in ideal and natural materials; multiphase flow in porous/fractured media; enhanced oil recovery; CCUS; reservoirs numerical simulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carbon dioxide (CO2) has been used for decades to enhance oil recovery (EOR) in reservoirs, and, in recent years, its utilization and storage in gas reservoirs have also gradually gained attention. Utilizing CO2 in oil and gas reservoirs to enhance oil or gas recovery (EOR/EGR) while achieving its geological storage is a win–win in terms of both economic and social benefits.
For oil fields, improving CO2 utilization efficiency, increasing oil recovery, is very important and largely depends on the phase behavior of CO2 and crude oil, displacement and EOR mechanisms, CO2 injection strategies, and the prevention of gas channeling, among others. From an environmental perspective, the goal is to maximize CO2 storage capacity, which involves different reservoir storage mechanisms, dynamic and static evaluations of storage capacity, and risk and economic assessments. Additionally, managing the synergistic relationship between CO2 utilization and storage in oil and gas reservoirs while simultaneously improving both is a crucial aspect of current carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) efforts in oil and gas reservoirs.
This Special Issue aims to collect recent advances in new analytical and numerical methods, mechanism studies, and field applications for CCUS in unconventional oil and gas reservoirs.
The topics include but are not limited to the following:
- CCUS in low-permeability reservoirs;
- CCUS in tight/shale oil reservoirs;
- CCUS in natural gas reservoirs;
- CCUS in shale gas reservoirs;
- Lab studies and field cases.
Dr. Bin Liang
Dr. Zhan Meng
Dr. Qingbang Meng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- CCUS
- Oil and gas reservoirs
- EOR
- EGR
- CO2 storage
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