Interfacial reactions drive all elemental cycling on Earth and play pivotal roles in human
activities such as agriculture, water purification, energy production and storage …

Hydraulic fracturing of unconventional oil/gas shales has changed the energy landscape of
the US Recovery of hydrocarbons from tight, hydraulically fractured shales is a highly …

This paper provides a comprehensive review on the application of proppants to maintain
fracture permeability over the lifetime of a well based on published observations from …

Background Ionic liquids have received a lot of interest in recent years from scientists and
academics due to their distinctive qualities, including low vapor pressure, low toxicity, high …

As an emerging waterless fracturing technology, supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO 2)
fracturing can reduce reservoir damage and dependence on water resources, and can also …

Concerns have been raised on the deterioration of groundwater quality associated with
anthropogenic impacts such as oil extraction and overuse of fertilizers. However, it is still …

The permeability of shale reservoir rock and caprock is the key parameters influencing the
shale gas production and the storage security of CO 2. During the CO 2 enhanced shale gas …

Shales will play an important role in the successful transition of energy from fossil-based
resources to renewables in the coming decades. Aside from being a significant source of …

The application of hydraulic fracturing has transformed tight sandstone gas into a very
important global unconventional resource. The accurate description of geochemical …

Abstract The supercritical CO 2 (ScCO 2)-water-shale interaction and its influence on
adsorption characteristics of shale have significant impact on the estimation of the CO 2 …