Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.04.02
Xiaobin Li, Bing Li, Fangzhou Liu, Tingting Li, Xin Nie
: Digital rock technology is becoming essential in reservoir engineering and petrophysics. Three-dimensional digital rock reconstruction, image resolution enhancement, image segmentation, and rock parameters prediction are all crucial steps in enabling the overall analysis of digital rocks to overcome the shortcomings and limitations of traditional methods. Artificial intelligence technology, which has started to play a significant role in many different fields, may provide a new direction for the development of digital rock technology. This work presents a systematic review of the deep learning methods that are being applied to tasks within digital rock analysis, including the reconstruction of digital rocks, high-resolution image acquisition, grayscale image segmentation
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.03.03
P. Andersen
{"title":"Insights from Boltzmann transformation in solving 1D counter-current spontaneous imbibition at early and late time","authors":"P. Andersen","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.03.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.03.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44508398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.04.01
Zhijun Jin
{"title":"Hydrocarbon accumulation and resources evaluation: Recent advances and current challenges","authors":"Zhijun Jin","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.04.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.04.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45638025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-22DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.03.04
Hongyang Chu, Jingxuan Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Tianbi Ma, Yubao Gao, W. J. Lee
: This paper presents a new semi-analytical solution and the related methodology to analyze the pressure behavior of multi-branch wells produced from natural gas hydrates. For constant bottom-hole pressure production, the transient flow solution is obtained by Laplace transforms. The interference among various branches is investigated using the superposition principle. A simplified form of the proposed model is validated using published analytical solutions. The complete flow profile can be divided into nine distinct regimes: wellbore storage and skin, vertical radial flow, linear flow, pseudo-radial flow, composite flow, dissociated flow, transitional flow, improvement flow and stress-sensitive flow. A well’s multi-branch structure governs the vertical radial and the linear flow regimes. In our model, a dynamic interface divides the natural gas hydrates deposit into dissociated and non-dissociated regions. Natural gas hydrates formation properties govern the composite-effect, dissociated, transitional, and improvement flow regimes. A dissociation coefficient governs the difference in flow resistance between dissociated and non-dissociated natural gas hydrates regions. The dissociated-zone radius affects the timing of these flow regimes. Conversion of natural gas hydrates to natural gas becomes instantaneous as the dissociation coefficient increases. The pressure derivative exhibits the same features as a homogeneous formation. The natural gas hydrates parameter values in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea cause the prominent dissociated flow regime to conceal the later transitional and improvement flow regimes. Due to the maximum practical well-test duration limitation, the first five flow regimes (through composite flow) are more likely to appear in practice than later flow regimes.
{"title":"A new semi-analytical flow model for multi-branch well testing in natural gas hydrates","authors":"Hongyang Chu, Jingxuan Zhang, Liwei Zhang, Tianbi Ma, Yubao Gao, W. J. Lee","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.03.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.03.04","url":null,"abstract":": This paper presents a new semi-analytical solution and the related methodology to analyze the pressure behavior of multi-branch wells produced from natural gas hydrates. For constant bottom-hole pressure production, the transient flow solution is obtained by Laplace transforms. The interference among various branches is investigated using the superposition principle. A simplified form of the proposed model is validated using published analytical solutions. The complete flow profile can be divided into nine distinct regimes: wellbore storage and skin, vertical radial flow, linear flow, pseudo-radial flow, composite flow, dissociated flow, transitional flow, improvement flow and stress-sensitive flow. A well’s multi-branch structure governs the vertical radial and the linear flow regimes. In our model, a dynamic interface divides the natural gas hydrates deposit into dissociated and non-dissociated regions. Natural gas hydrates formation properties govern the composite-effect, dissociated, transitional, and improvement flow regimes. A dissociation coefficient governs the difference in flow resistance between dissociated and non-dissociated natural gas hydrates regions. The dissociated-zone radius affects the timing of these flow regimes. Conversion of natural gas hydrates to natural gas becomes instantaneous as the dissociation coefficient increases. The pressure derivative exhibits the same features as a homogeneous formation. The natural gas hydrates parameter values in the Shenhu area of the South China Sea cause the prominent dissociated flow regime to conceal the later transitional and improvement flow regimes. Due to the maximum practical well-test duration limitation, the first five flow regimes (through composite flow) are more likely to appear in practice than later flow regimes.","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48868296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-14DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.02.07
Piyang Liu, Kai Zhang, Jun-wu Yao
{"title":"Reservoir automatic history matching: Methods, challenges, and future directions","authors":"Piyang Liu, Kai Zhang, Jun-wu Yao","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.02.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.02.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45961284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.03.02
Lei Zhao, W. Mao, Z. Liu, Shijun Cheng
{"title":"Research on the differential tectonic-thermal evolution of Longmaxi shale in the southern Sichuan Basin","authors":"Lei Zhao, W. Mao, Z. Liu, Shijun Cheng","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.03.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.03.02","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43948740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-08DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.02.06
W. Chu, Kaiqiang Zhang
{"title":"Fluid phase behavior of tight and shale reservoirs: Monte Carlo simulations","authors":"W. Chu, Kaiqiang Zhang","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.02.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.02.06","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43156535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-26DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.03.01
Mingjie Chen, Khalid Al-Subhi, A. Al-Rajhi, A. Al‐Maktoumi, A. Izady, Amer Al-Hinai
{"title":"Numerical evaluation of hydrogen production by steam reforming of natural gas","authors":"Mingjie Chen, Khalid Al-Subhi, A. Al-Rajhi, A. Al‐Maktoumi, A. Izady, Amer Al-Hinai","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.03.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.03.01","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49670043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.46690/ager.2023.02.05
Hamed Hematpur, R. Abdollahi, Shahin Rostami, M. Haghighi, M. Blunt
{"title":"Review of underground hydrogen storage: Concepts and challenges","authors":"Hamed Hematpur, R. Abdollahi, Shahin Rostami, M. Haghighi, M. Blunt","doi":"10.46690/ager.2023.02.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2023.02.05","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36335,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Geo-Energy Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42007025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}