Alexandria Engineering Journal
Exploration of new hydrocarbon leads in the eastern flank of Abu Gharadig Basin, North Western Desert, Egypt (3/23):
“To understand better the structural elements controlling the hydrocarbon potentiality and productivity for the upper Cretaceous reservoirs…to determine nine promising structural traps
for future exploration with high certainty.”
Applied Energy
An advanced prediction model of shale oil production profile based on source-reservoir assemblages and artificial neural networks (3/23): “…successful shale oil exploration and development depends significantly on the accurate evaluation of the sweet spots…predict shale oil production through machine learning…This research provides
ideas for intelligent prediction of the distribution of sweet spots in unconventional resources, and is also important for the development of intelligent hydrocarbon exploration technology.”
China Geology
The accumulation characteristics and exploration potential of oil and gas in the back-arc basin of Japan under the background of high heat flow
10/23“The pre-Neogene bedrock oil and gas reservoirs also show a good exploration prospect. The resource prospecting indicates that Niigata Basin, Ulleung Basin and kitakami Basin are the main
target areas for future exploration and development.”
Computers and Geosciences
Intelligent seismic stratigraphic modeling using temporal convolutional network (2/23):Deep learning (DL) has stimulated the intelligent processing and interpretation of seismic big data
for oil and gas exploration in the past decade…Here, we proposed a novel scheme for intelligent seismic stratigraphic interpretation based on temporal convolution network (TCN).
Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
Bacterial anomalies associated with deep sea hydrocarbon seepage along the Scotian Slope (3/23): “Deep sea hydrocarbon seep detection relies predominantly on geochemical analyses of seabed marine sediment cores
to identify the presence of gas or oil…Bioassays based on these indicators may therefore have utility in different offshore energy sectors that need to assess operational risks and hazards associated with hydrocarbon seepage.”
Energy Geoscience
Exploration progress of the Paleogene in Jiyang Depression, Bohai Bay Basin (1/23): “…petroleum exploration in this region has been challenged by unclear remaining petroleum resources distribution, complex reservoir and hydrocarbon enrichment patterns, and lacking of suitable exploration techniques. Aiming at resolving these problems, studies on source rocks, reservoirs, hydrocarbon accumulation and geophysical prospection were carried out by laboratory analysis, reservoir anatomy, and seismic analysis… The research result plays a leading and demonstrative role in the fine and
efficient exploration of faulted basins in eastern China.”
Hydrocarbon accumulation conditions and exploration targets of the Sinian Dengying Formation in the Southeastern Sichuan Basin (7/23): “Lithologic traps at the platform margin and pre-salt structural traps within the platform are favorable targets for natural gas exploration… Therefore, there are two favorable
targets for oil and gas exploration in the Dengying Formation in the southeastern Sichuan Basin.”
Energy Reports
Mud loss behavior in fractured formation with high temperature and pressure (12/23):The increasing global demand for energy is driving oil companies
to explore and drill for oil in deeper and more challenging reservoirs that have more complex formations, higher pressures, and temperatures. This necessitates more stringent requirements for safe and efficient drilling…mud loss has become a major obstacle to low-cost oil and gas resource development. Understanding mud loss behavior is critical for assessing loss risk and devising loss control plans in advance.
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Oil Logging Reservoir Recognition Based on TCN and SA-BiLSTM Deep Learning Method (5/23): “The experimental results show that TCN-SA-BiLSTM exhibits excellent performance in comparison with seven competing models on all performance evaluation metrics. It overcomes the deficiencies in capability exhibited by traditional logging interpretation techniques to
improve the efficiency and success rate of oil and gas exploration.”
Engineering Fracture Mechanics
Exploring hydraulic fracture behavior in glutenite formation with strong heterogeneity and variable lithology based on DEM simulation (2/23): “This study can provide key technical support and theoretical
guidance for oil and gas development in tight glutenite reservoir.”
Expert Systems with Applications
Detection of potential gas accumulations in 2D seismic images using spatio-temporal, PSO, and convolutional LSTM approaches (4/23): “Seismic reflection is one of the most widely used geophysical methods in the oil and gas (O&G) industry
for hydrocarbon prospecting...To help geoscientists with these tasks, computational tools based on machine learning have been proposed.”
Fuel
Prediction of vitrinite reflectance of shale oil reservoirs using nuclear magnetic resonance and conventional log data (5/23): “With the change of
oil and gas exploration and development focus to shale reservoirs, the source rock has become a research hotspot in well logging. It is of great significance to obtain continuous organic geochemical parameters based on log data.”
Gas Science and Engineering
Amplitude variation with angle and azimuth inversion to estimate fracture properties in shale-gas reservoirs (3/23): “…[geological information] for the
exploration and development of hydrocarbons”
Geoenergy Science and Engineering
Petroleum systems and hydrocarbon potential of the Ruvuma Basin, Tanzania (4/23): “The hydrocarbon generation potential of the
Ruvuma Basin…little is known about the basin's source rock's hydrocarbon generation potential, including the distribution of significant petroleum systems…These results indicate that the Cenozoic play system incorporates hydrocarbons from diverse sources/reservoirs, making it
a potential exploration target for future discoveries. These findings necessitate more research to determine migratory patterns, which will result in new ground-breaking discoveries in the basin.”
Seismic interpretation and geological evaluation of hydrocarbon source rocks in volcanic-rich continental lacustrine rift basins: A case study of the Lower Cretaceous Yingcheng Formation from the Changling Fault Depression in the Songliao Basin, NE China (2/23): “This study offers
guidance and direction for deep hydrocarbon exploration in the Changling Fault Depression, and also provides a reference for methods and ideas to predict hydrocarbon source rock distribution in other lacustrine rift basins.”
Tight gas accumulation caused by overpressure: Insights from three-dimensional seismic data in the western Sichuan Basin, southwest China (4/23): “We suggest that the areas with relatively low pressure around faults and fractures are the most
favourable targets for hydrocarbon exploration in tight sandstones.”
Lithofacies identification of shale reservoirs using a tree augmented Bayesian network: A case study of the lower Silurian Longmaxi formation in the changning block, South Sichuan basin, China (2/23): “…help promote the development of lithofacies identification of unconventional oil and gas geology and provides
a new method for shale gas reservoir evaluation.”
Experimental investigation of the shear bond strength between HGM cement and shallow formation in deepwater environments (2/23)Most importantly,
considering that deepwater oil and gas resources have considerable exploitation potential and the particularity of deepwater shallow rock and soil,
it is valuable to explore the SBS between cement and a shallow formation in deepwater.
Geoscience Frontiers
Construction and application of an ontology-based domain-specific knowledge graph for petroleum exploration and development (7/23)This paper proposes an engineering-based method that can improve upon traditional natural language processing
to construct the domain knowledge graph based on a petroleum exploration and development ontology…The two applications based on the constructed knowledge graph are developed and validated for effectiveness and advantages in providing better knowledge services for the oil and gas industry.
Yanshanian–Himalayan geodynamic transformation of the northwestern Junggar Basin, southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB), and its significance for petroleum accumulation (7/23): “...highlights the
potential for petroleum exploration at intermediate–shallow depths.”
Heliyon
Organic matter enrichment mechanism of Youganwo Formation oil shale in the Maoming Basin (2/23): “In the present study, the reservoir characteristics and key influencing factors of OM enrichment in the Youganwo Formation were investigated, which is beneficial for deeply understanding high-quality oil shale formation mechanism, and providing
a basis for effective evaluation and exploitation of oil shale resources as well as potential biogenic shale gas in the Maoming Basin…The differences between different sub-members and their main influencing factors have been clarified, which can provide scientific
guidance for further geological exploration and theory research of oil shale resources in the Maoming Basin. ”
International Journal of Coal Geology
Intelligent classification of coal structure using multinomial logistic regression, random forest and fully connected neural network with multisource geophysical logging data (3/23): “Machine learning methods” to aid “the
exploration and development of coal bed methane (CBM)”
International Journal of Intelligent Networks
Unsupervised machine learning technique for classifying production zones in unconventional reservoirs (2023): “Using standard approaches, such as data from cores and commercial software, it is difficult and costly to locate productive zones. Furthermore, it is difficult to apply these techniques to wells that do not have cores.
This study presents a less costly way for the systematic and objective
detection of productive and non-productive zones via well-log data using clustering unsupervised and supervised machine learning algorithms.”
International Journal of Refractory Metals and Hard Materials
Effect of different acidic media on the corrosion behaviour of hardmetals with Ni-based binders (1/23): “Highly corrosive agents, such as saltwater, hydrogen sulphide, hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acids, are frequently found in
oil and gas exploration… In this work, the corrosion behaviour of cemented carbides with different Ni-based binders in highly corrosive environments (HCl and HF) was studied…presented a corrosion resistance superior to WC-Co in all environments.”
International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences
Characteristics of SH-wave propagation during oil reservoir excitation using BEM formulation in half-plane model representation (2/23): “...the industries are now looking for new
technologies for recovering more-and-more oil…Seismic excitation can improve oil production either on the ground surface (vibroseismic) or below the surface (down-hole), and also integrate with the other EOR technologies.”
Investigation into shale softening induced by water/CO2-rock interaction (1/23): “With the worldwide increasing demand for fossil energy resources, shale oil has become a hot field of
exploration and development of unconventional oil and gas resources... This paper aims to investigate the influence of water/CO2-rock interaction on softening behavior of shale.”
International Journal of Thermal Sciences
Rapid detection of the vacuum failure of logging tools based on the variation in equivalent thermal conductivity (6/23): “The logging tool is the key downhole facility used for
oil and gas exploration…During transport, assembly, or working processes, vacuum flask failure can lead to the destruction of the logging tool. The existing test methods are unable to detect vacuum failure quickly and accurately. To solve this problem, a rapid test method based on the variation in equivalent thermal conductivity before and after vacuum failure was proposed.”
Journal of African Earth Sciences
A new insight on sedimentary facies of the Miocene to Pliocene Agbada Formation, offshore Niger Delta Basin, Nigeria (4/23): “Further
research on the sequence stratigraphy and sedimentary facies is particularly significant in hydrocarbon exploration. In this study, the sequence stratigraphic structure and sedimentary facies of the Miocene and Pliocene Agbada Formation in the southeastern part of the Niger Delta were studied…
To fully tap the hydrocarbon potential of this area, it is essential to further research the sedimentary facies characteristics.”
Structural and petroleum system analysis using seismic data interpretation techniques to Upper Cretaceous rock units: A case study, West Abu-Sennan oil field, Northern Western Desert, Egypt (2/23): “analyzing the petroleum system elements
to uplift the hydrocarbon potentiality figure…The conducted workflow in this study can be utilized
to better understand similar reservoirs in neighboring areas.”
Geophysical assessment for the oil potentiality of the Abu Roash “G” reservoir in West Beni Suef Basin, Western Desert, Egypt (3/23): “The current study
evaluates the hydrocarbon potentiality of the sandstone intervals of the Abu Roash “G” Member in Beni Suef Basin, Egypt.”
Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis
Influence of the Emeishan basalt eruption on hydrocarbon generation and expulsion characteristics of Sinian (Ediacaran) algal dolomite in Sichuan Basin (1/23): “Deep marine carbonate oil and gas resources in the Sichuan Basin are currently key exploration areas...the better understanding of the effect of Emeishan basalt eruption on source rock is vital
for the exploration of marine oil and gas resources.”
Journal of Applied Geophysics
3-D quantitative seismic imaging of tectonically-influenced Middle-Eocene carbonates stratigraphic traps of SE-Asian basins using spectral decomposition: Implications for hydrocarbon exploration (1/23): “This workflow can act as an analogue stratigraphic
exploration ofremaining gas fields within Asian Basins and similar geological settings.”
Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
Deep shale gas in the Ordovician-Silurian Wufeng–Longmaxi formations of the Sichuan Basin, SW China: Insights from reservoir characteristics, preservation conditions and development strategies (4/23): “Shale gas at a burial depth greater than 3500 m is an important potential
strategic target for exploration and development in China. …realizing the commercial development of deep shale gas.”
Stratigraphic correlation and sedimentology of the Ediacaran succession in the Tarim Basin, NW China: Implications for paleogeographic reconstruction and hydrocarbon exploration (5/23): “Our research findings, combining with previous geological results, suggest that the Ediacaran succession in Tarim Basin has
great potential for hydrocarbon exploration.”
Journal of King Saud University - Science
Favorable reservoir prediction and connection model biulting of thick glutenite sediment in basin steep slope zone (2/23): “In parallel, we will keep improving the algorithm
to improve the precision of predicting suitable reservoirs using machine learning.”
Journal of Natural Gas Geoscience
Geochemical characteristics of source rocks and gas exploration direction in Shawan Sag, Junggar Basin, China (3/23): “This allowed for clarification of the product characteristics of source rocks in different strata and
pointing out the direction for future natural gas exploration… This area also has favorable geological conditions for the formation of large lithologic reservoirs, making it a key field for
gas exploration in the study area moving forward.”
Formation conditions and the main controlling factors for the enrichment of shale gas of Shanxi Formation in the southeast of Ordos Basin, China (2/23): “This makes the shale gas of the Shanxi Formation in the southeast of the Ordos Basin have certain
potential for exploration and development, and delineates the enrichment targets of shale gas in the Zichang-Yan'an-Fuxian and Yichuan areas.”
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
New insights into Upper Cretaceous hydrocarbon traps of platform-basin flanks in the Sahel Eastern Tunisian petroleum province: Inferred optimal hydrocarbon reserves accumulations (1/23): “These volumes could be trapped along the faults seal branches, unconformities, pinchouts as well as in the evidenced progradational and reefal system tracts sequences in the flank borders of the platforms. These traps could represent
new exploration targets as potential structural and stratigraphic plays.”
