For more than forty years, the Rock-Eval pyrolysis technique has been widely used to rapidly
assess the petroleum generating characteristics of organic matter in petroleum source rocks …

Organic petrography via incident light microscopy has broad application to shale petroleum
systems, including delineation of thermal maturity windows and determination of organo …

The isotopic composition of methane is of longstanding geochemical interest, with important
implications for understanding petroleum systems, atmospheric greenhouse gas …

Abstract The southern Sichuan Basin in China holds abundant shale gas resources;
however, the shale gas bearing property shows great differences due to the multiple stages …

Anaerobic digestion (AD) has become an effective waste management method in the agri-
food sector to dispose of livestock and food wastes. As AD becomes more widely used new …

Understanding the shale oil flow mechanism in nanopores is crucial for optimizing
development strategies and enhancing recovery in shale oil reservoirs. Despite the …

Cultivation and harvesting of microalgal biomass are energy-intensive and expensive
processes. Hence, this study explored the effect of substituting microalgal biomass with …

Faecal sludge (FS) and drained peatlands have become the hotspots research area in
recent years, causing significant environmental pollution and greenhouse gas (GHGs) …

Shale oil and shale gas are important unconventional resources. As the total organic carbon
(TOC) of shales is related to the generation potentiality of hydrocarbons, a model of TOC …

Raman spectroscopy was studied as a thermal maturity probe in a series of Upper Devonian
Ohio Shale samples from the Appalachian Basin spanning from immature to dry gas …