Manuscript Topics

Due to the complex pore structures and distinctive storage in unconventional rocks, multiphase flow in low-permeability unconventional reservoirs is a complex process, and there are many challenges in the fundamental theories and techniques used to describe and model fluid flow and transport in unconventional reservoirs. Therefore, new multi-scale and multi-physical methods and technologies are being continuously developed to characterize unconventional reservoirs and to describe flow and transport dynamics within them. Petrophysics in unconventional reservoirs, especially multiscale characterization and multiphase flow modeling, are relevant to multi-disciplinary porous media research (e.g., hydrocarbon extraction, environmental issues, and hydrology).

Topics to be involved:

We invite you to submit your manuscripts to this Special Issue on “New advancements and challenges in unconventional reservoirs”. Paper topics may relate to EOR/IOR in ultra-tight shale, shale oil, shale gas or carbonate reservoirs. The subjects of the papers include (but are not limited to):

• Fracturing-fluid optimization
• Surfactant/microemulsion treatment of fractured wells
• Cyclic (huff-n-puff) gas injection
• Low-salinity water injection
• Carbonated-water injection
• Modeling/measurement of relative permeability and capillary pressure
• Wettability evaluation
• Rock–fluid interactions in ultra-tight rocks
• Pore network modelling/Lattice Boltzmann modelling
• Multiscale modeling of porous media flow
• Machine learning and data science applications for unlocking new insights in shale resources exploitation
• Experimental characterization techniques
• Gas adsorption and desorption in unconventional reservoirs
• Artificial intelligence aided research in unconventional reservoir development
• Microfluidic investigation of hydrocarbon-water-rock interactions in nanoporous shale systems

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