Tight and Shale Oil Exploration: A Review of the Global Experience and a Case of West Siberia

DB Dorhjie, E Mukhina, A Kasyanenko, A Cheremisin - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Shale and tight oil reservoirs, with horizontal wells and hydraulic fractures, typically have a
recovery ratio of around 10%. The exploration of tight oil and shale in North America has …

A CNN-based approach for upscaling multiphase flow in digital sandstones

J Siavashi, A Najafi, M Ebadi, M Sharifi - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
In digital rock physics, finding the trade-off between image resolution and field of view and,
at the same time, maintaining the accuracy of flow prediction in a low-resolution large-scale …

Generative adversarial networks for reconstruction of three-dimensional porous media from two-dimensional slices

D Volkhonskiy, E Muravleva, O Sudakov, D Orlov… - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
In many branches of earth sciences, the problem of rock study on the microlevel arises.
However, a significant number of representative samples is not always feasible. Thus the …

Exploration of microstructure characteristics and mechanical behaviors of thermal-damaged argillaceous sandstone via LF-NMR and µ-CT technologies

S Liu, Z Huang - Geomechanics and Geophysics for Geo-Energy and …, 2023 - Springer
The effect of high temperature on the microstructure and mechanical behavior of rocks is a
fundamental issue relevant to the exploitation of underground oil and gas resources …

Upscaling permeability anisotropy in digital sandstones using convolutional neural networks

A Najafi, J Siavashi, M Ebadi, M Sharifi… - Journal of Natural Gas …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pore-scale modelling and implementation of micro x-ray Computed Tomography (μxCT)
images have become a reliable method to predict the petrophysical properties of rocks …

Lift the veil of secrecy in sub-resolved pores by Xe-enhanced computed tomography

M Ebadi, D Orlov, V Alekseev, A Burukhin, V Krutko… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The efficient development of tight hydrocarbon resources based on the proper
understanding of rock properties can be underlined as a game-changing scenario of the …

The effect of salt precipitation on the petrophysical properties and the adsorption capacity of shale matrix based on the porous structure reconstruction

Y Zhang, B Ju, M Zhang, C Wang, F Zeng, R Hu… - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
The study of salt precipitation and its effect on the reservoir physical properties and
hydrocarbon adsorption capacity is important to the development of the shale reservoir with …

Reconstruction of 3d porous media from 2d slices

D Volkhonskiy, E Muravleva, O Sudakov… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
In many branches of earth sciences, the problem of rock study on the micro-level arises.
However, a significant number of representative samples is not always feasible. Thus the …

Investigation on the Gas Emission Law of Water-Containing Coal across the Rank Range

Z Wang, G Huang, X Liu, P Liu, F Lin, B Nie, B Luo - ACS omega, 2024 - ACS Publications
Water commonly occurs in coal reservoirs, and it can block the gas flow channels. This has a
significant influence on methane transportation within coal. To reveal the gas emission law …

Predictive soft computing methods for building digital rock models verified by Positron Emission Tomography experiments

M Ebadi, RT Armstrong, P Mostaghimi… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The influence of core‐scale heterogeneity on continuum‐scale flow and laboratory
measurements are not well understood. To address this issue, we propose a fully automated …