Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Part B: Subsurface Energy and Carbon Capture
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EISSN 2998-1646|ISSN 2998-1638|Disc:The Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Part B: Subsurface Energy and Carbon Capture disseminates technical information – peer-reviewed scholarly work, research papers, technical briefs, feature articles and authoritative review articles – of permanent interest to the journal’s readership. Emphasis is given to extraction and conversion of any form of chemical, thermal and mechanical energies, including various electricity generation technologies, refrigeration/heat pump and cryogenic processes, energy storage, and technologies associated with carbon capture, utilization and storage. Evaluation of the systems using methods of thermodynamics, economics and environmental sciences, including sustainability aspects, and policy assessments. Application of optimization methods. A small number of published papers describe case histories, review advanced technologies or describe a new methodology/industrial process, applications of machine learning and big data analysis. Discussion papers addressing energy policy or regulatory issues that affect energy resources and energy demand and supply are also published|Priority:6|Publisher:American Society of Mechanical Engineers|
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A New Five-step Method for Advanced Evaluation of Shale Gas Formations and a Field Case Study of Marcellus Shale
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This paper presents a new five-step method to evaluate shale gas formations with intricate pore networks. The method overcomes challenges posed by traditional workflows through an improved workflow and a new unconventional ... -
Transforming Oil Well Drilling: Prediction of Real-Time Rate of Penetration With Novel Machine Learning Approach in Varied Lithological Formations
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The rate of penetration (ROP) is crucial for efficient and cost-effective oil well drilling. This study introduces a novel prediction method for the rate of penetration that pioneers the use of different types of drill ... -
Impact of Production Strategy on Production Forecasting, Energy Demand, and Carbon Emissions: Typical Case Study of the Brazilian Presalt
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)This study evaluates how the production strategy influences the main decision-making indicators in the development of the production of a Brazilian presalt field, considering reservoir and production system models integrated ... -
Simulation of Rock-Breaking Ability of Polycrystalline Diamond Compact Cutter Based on Rock Mechanics Experiment After Heat Treatment
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)When drilling in geothermal and deep formations, the rock-breaking mechanism of high-temperature formations is not clear. In this work, mechanical tests of rocks subjected to high temperatures were carried out, and ... -
A Prediction Method of Oil Recovery for Hot Water Chemical Flooding in Heavy Oil Reservoirs: Semi-Analytical Stream Tube Model
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Chemical agents (polymer and surfactant) assisted hot water flooding is an effective means of enhancing oil recovery in heterogeneous and heavy oil reservoirs. The rapid prediction of oil recovery through hot water chemical ... -
Comprehensive Evaluation of Microscopic Movability and Macroscopic Productivity of Continental Shale Reservoir
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Continental shale oil is diversified, differentiated, and complex. It has disadvantages such as low production and inferior development benefits. Given this, the movability and productivity of shale oil were proposed in ... -
Effects of Fines Migration and Reservoir Heterogeneity on Well Productivity: Analytical Model and Field Cases
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Formation damage due to fines migration after water breakthrough during oil and gas production results in significant well productivity decline. A recent study derived an analytical model for fines migration during commingled ... -
Research for the Enhanced Oil Recovery Mechanism of Heavy Oil After Composite Huff and Puff Assisted by Edge-Bottom Water Displacement
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)In the late stage of exploiting heavy oil reservoirs with edge-bottom water, we are faced with problems such as high crude oil viscosity, channeling of bottom water, and rapid rise in water cut. To clarify the synergistic ... -
Optimization of Injection-Production Relationship of Offshore Unconsolidated Sandstone Reservoirs Based on Inter-Well Connectivity
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)The dynamic heterogeneity of the water drive sandstone reservoir in high water cut stage is strong, which leads to the differential enrichment and distribution of the remaining oil. The adjustment of the injection-production ... -
Analysis of Production Decline Type Curves Considering Water Influx in Naturally Fractured Gas Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)In the development of fractured gas reservoirs with edge and bottom water, water invasion is a pervasive issue. However, most production decline analysis models focus on primary depletion with closed boundaries rather than ... -
Distribution of Flow Characteristics and Productivity Evaluation of Herringbone Wells in Bottom-Water Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)With the characteristics of large drainage area and low drilling cost, the herringbone wells are becoming a significant way to boost the well production, improve the dynamic flow profile, delay the coning of bottom water, ... -
Research of Productivity and Interlayer Interference Mechanism of Multilayer Co-Production in Reservoirs With Multipressure Systems
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Due to the differences in physical and fluid properties in vertical oil layers, the interlayer contradictions are prominent and affect the reservoir utilization degree seriously. Therefore, the coordination between reasonable ... -
Study of Oilfield Development Cost Market Index Modeling Based on Big Data
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Due to recent oil price fluctuations, oil companies have optimized assets and promoted joint ventures, leading to a need for fast, accurate oilfield asset evaluation, including development and growth costs. Oilfield ... -
Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Injectivity and Dynamic Storage Capacity in Shale Reservoirs
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Carbon dioxide could be stored in unconventional shale reservoirs in a supercritical state due to available pore volume, infrastructure, and injectivity. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the injectivity and ... -
Numerical and Optimization Studies on Reactivity Controlled Compression Ignition Engine With Hydrogen and Split Injections
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Effective abatement of harmful tail-pipe emissions from fossil fuel run engines is achieved through low-temperature combustion strategies; the reactivity controlled compression ignition (RCCI) mode of operation has been ... -
Separate-Layer Injection Scheme Optimization Based on Integrated Injection Information With Artificial Neural Network and Residual Network
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Separate-layer injection technology is a highly significant approach for enhancing oil recovery in the later stages of oilfield production. Both separate-layer and general injection information are crucial parameters in ... -
A Semi-Analytical Mathematical Model of Off-Center Multi-Stage Fractured Horizontal Well in Circle Bi-Zonal Gas Reservoir
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Reservoir permeability and stress heterogeneous distribution lead to different hydraulic fracture lengths and angles. Gas reservoirs' heterogeneous characteristics lead that well is not the center of the circle high-permeability ... -
Physics-Informed Sampling Scheme for Efficient Well Placement Optimization
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Well placement optimization is a crucial task in terms of oil and gas recovery and economics in the field development plan. It poses significant challenges due to the multitude of local optima, which demand massive ... -
Identification Method of Remaining Oil Potential Area Based on Deep Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2025)Efficiently classifying potential areas of remaining oil is essential for enhancing the recovery in high water cut reservoir. The distribution of remaining oil is complex and challenging to mobilize due to temporal evolution ... -
Fast and Reliable History Matching of Channel Reservoirs Using Initial Models Selected by Streamline and Deep Learning
(The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2024)Ensemble-based methods involve using multiple models for model calibration to correct initial models based on observed data. The assimilated ensemble models allow probabilistic analysis of future production behaviors. It ...