In low-pressure gas reservoirs, water-based fracture fluid is difficult to flowback, which is unfavorable for several tight sandstone gas reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin with low pressure and high permeability geological characteristics. Supercritical CO2 possesses a number of remarkable physical and chemical features, including a density near to water, a viscosity close to gas, and high diffusion. Supercritical CO2 fracturing is a new type of non-aqueous fracturing method that is favorable to fracturing flowback in low-pressure tight sandstone and has a wide range of applications. To discuss on whether supercritical CO2 fracturing with low pressure tight sandstone is feasible. Tight sandstone cores from the Jinqiu gas field in the Sichuan Basin were used to study the influence of supercritical CO2 on the physical properties of sandstone reservoirs. Supercritical CO2 was used to interact with tight sandstone samples, and then the changes in porosity, permeability, and rock microstructure of tight sandstone were observed under various time, pressure, and temperature conditions. After the interaction between tight sandstone and supercritical CO2, new dissolution pores will appear, or the original pores will be increased, and the width of some natural fractures will also be increased, and the porosity will increase by 1.09%–8.85%, and the permeability will increase by 2.34%–21.26%, quantifying the influence of supercritical CO2 on physical properties of tight sandstone, and further improving the interaction mechanism between supercritical CO2 and tight sandstone. This study improves in the understanding of the tight sandstone-supercritical CO2 interaction mechanism, as well as providing an experimental foundation and technological guarantee for field testing and use of supercritical CO2 in low-pressure tight sandstone gas reservoirs.
Drilling is one of the most challenging and expensive processes in hydrocarbon extraction and geothermal well development. Dysfunctions faced during drilling can increase the non-productive time (NPT) greatly, resulting in inflating the drilling cost and also pose a safety concern. One of the main problems faced during drilling that limits the life of drilling equipment and tools and decreases the overall productivity of the system is drilling vibrations. These vibrations can be categorized into three modes: axial, lateral, and torsional. Stick-slip vibrations are a type of torsional vibration in which the bottom hole assembly (BHA) periodically stops to rotate followed by a spike in the bottom hole RPM. This paper provides a comprehensive review of techniques used to control and mitigate torsional vibration with an emphasis on stick-slip. A brief introduction to drillstring and friction modeling is presented followed by a concise summary of passive control techniques to control stick-slip. Then the focus is shifted to an up-to-date review of active control and machine learning for stick-slip control and mitigation. The paper ultimately highlights the importance of adapting novel control and mitigation concepts to improve stick slip detection and improve the overall drilling process. A unique solution is insufficient to control a complex process such as drilling, but integration of various techniques has been found promising.
The carbon dioxide (CO2) conversion to useable compounds remains a great contest to scientists, engineers, and environmentalists with regard to the reverse of the oxidative degradation of organics. This conversion is essential for the development of complementary fuels and raw materials for various industries, which in turn will help in avoiding the drastic increase in tropospheric temperature due to greenhouse effect leading to global warming. The solar energy is the earth's essential power source along with the other various forms of energy for example fossil fuels, hydropower, wind, and biomaterials, etc. The final goal is to establish the artificial photosynthesis, which can be replicated thru various chemical reduction techniques of CO2 by employing appropriate photo-, thermal- and electro-catalysts in order to produce different one carbon atom (C1) and higher carbon atoms containing products. Besides, the utilization of clean and sustainable CO2 towards high-value products is of great interest today due to the recognized environmental worries and subsequent lessening of the fossil fuels utilization load to meet the energy demand of mankind. This way, solar energy can directly and/or indirectly be altered and stored in chemical energy form for industrial as well as societal applications. In this article our endeavor is to summarize the advances in CO2 chemical reduction research area till date especially in free radical-based methods such as electrochemical, photochemical and plasma chemical for the development of carbon species up to two carbon (C2) atoms containing products perceived in the chemical reduction of CO2. The author hopes that this piece of work will be helpful to researchers and readers who are focused on the field of CO2.

