Recent advances in multiscale digital rock reconstruction, flow simulation, and experiments during shale gas production

Y Yang, F Liu, Q Zhang, Y Li, K Wang, Q Xu… - Energy & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The complex and multiscale nature of shale gas transport imposes new challenges to the
already well-developed techniques for conventional reservoirs, especially digital core …

Recent advances on fluid flow in porous media using digital core analysis technology.

Y Yang, RN Horne, J Cai, J Yao - Advances in Geo-Energy …, 2023 - search.ebscohost.com
The scientific and engineering challenges of research on porous media have gained
substantial attention in recent decades. These intricate issues span different disciplines and …

Advances and Prospects of Supercritical CO2 for Shale Gas Extraction and Geological Sequestration in Gas Shale Reservoirs

W Shen, T Ma, L Zuo, X Yang, J Cai - Energy & Fuels, 2024 - ACS Publications
The advancements in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling techniques have
substantially facilitated the large-scale extraction of natural gas from shale gas reservoirs …

Efficiently reconstructing high-quality details of 3D digital rocks with super-resolution Transformer

Z Xing, J Yao, L Liu, H Sun - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Accurate pore-scale modeling demands high-quality digital rock images, which should
possess a broad imaging field of view (FOV) and high resolution to characterize multi-scale …

Adsorption behavior of shale oil and water in the kerogen-kaolinite pore by molecular simulations

Y Yang, H Song, G Imani, Q Zhang, F Liu… - Journal of Molecular …, 2024 - Elsevier
It is very meaningful to study the adsorption behavior of oil and water in shale nanopores in
the context of enhanced oil recovery. Whereas, the investigation of shale and water …

Digital rock resolution Enhancement and detail recovery with multi attention neural network

Z Xing, J Yao, L Liu, H Sun - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
High-quality digital rock images are essential for subsequent high-precision numerical
simulations. But limited by the imaging capability of computed tomography (CT), high …

A new meshless method to solve the two-phase thermo-hydro-mechanical multi-physical field coupling problems in shale reservoirs

W Zhu, Z Chen, K Liu - Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficient development of shale reservoirs relies on multi-stage hydraulic fracturing
technology in horizontal wells involving the difficulty of multi-scale flow for either gas or …

Pore-Scale Simulation of Fracture Propagation by CO2 Flow Induced in Deep Shale Based on Hydro-Mechanical Coupled Model

Z Liu, Y Yang, Q Zhang, G Imani, L Zhang, H Sun… - SPE Journal, 2024 - onepetro.org
The depletion of conventional reservoirs has led to increased interest in deep shale gas.
Hydraulic fracturing addresses the challenge of developing low-permeability shale …

3D reconstruction of digital rock guided by petrophysical parameters with deep learning

R Zhou, CD Wu - Geoenergy Science and Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital rock reconstruction is the basis of digital petrophysics, aiming to provide diverse
samples for heterogeneity analysis on microscopic pore structures. Traditional physical …

Minireview on Porous Media and Microstructure Reconstruction Using Machine Learning Techniques: Recent Advances and Outlook

H Mirzaee, S Kamrava, P Tahmasebi - Energy & Fuels, 2023 - ACS Publications
To accurately model and analyze various phenomena in porous media, it is necessary to
have three-dimensional (3D) microstructure samples that genuinely represent the key …