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Advances in multiscale rock physics for unconventional reservoirs

Show Author's Information Jianchao Cai1 ( ),  Luanxiao Zhao2 ,  Feng Zhang3,  Wei Wei4
State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P. R. China
State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
College of Geophysics, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P. R. China
Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China
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Unconventional reservoirs, multiscale, rock physics, physical model
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Cai J, Zhao L, Zhang F, et al. Advances in multiscale rock physics for unconventional reservoirs. Advances in Geo-Energy Research, 2022, 6(4): 271-275. https://doi.org/10.46690/ager.2022.04.01
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The multiscale rock physics of unconventional reservoirs have drawn increasing attention in recent years, which involves several essential issues, including measuring method, transport property, physics model, characteristic scale, and their application. These issues vastly affect science and engineering regarding the exploration and development of unconventional reservoirs. To encourage communication on the advances of research on the rock physics of unconventional reservoirs, a conference on Multiscale Rock Physics for Unconventional Reservoirs was jointly organized by the journals Energies and Advances in Geo-Energy Research. Due to the limitations of movement caused by COVID-19, 21 experts introduced their work online, and the conference featured the latest multiscale theories, experimental methods and numerical simulations on unconventional reservoirs.


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Advances in multiscale rock physics for unconventional reservoirs

Show Author's information Jianchao Cai1 ( ), Luanxiao Zhao2 , Feng Zhang3, Wei Wei4
State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P. R. China
State Key Laboratory of Marine Geology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, P. R. China
College of Geophysics, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, P. R. China
Institute of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, P. R. China

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The multiscale rock physics of unconventional reservoirs have drawn increasing attention in recent years, which involves several essential issues, including measuring method, transport property, physics model, characteristic scale, and their application. These issues vastly affect science and engineering regarding the exploration and development of unconventional reservoirs. To encourage communication on the advances of research on the rock physics of unconventional reservoirs, a conference on Multiscale Rock Physics for Unconventional Reservoirs was jointly organized by the journals Energies and Advances in Geo-Energy Research. Due to the limitations of movement caused by COVID-19, 21 experts introduced their work online, and the conference featured the latest multiscale theories, experimental methods and numerical simulations on unconventional reservoirs.

Keywords: Unconventional reservoirs, multiscale, rock physics, physical model

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Received: 13 May 2022
Revised: 23 May 2022
Accepted: 26 May 2022
Published: 27 May 2022
Issue date: August 2022

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The authors would like to thank the participants of the online conference for their inspiring work and the MDPI group for their diligent proposals, which led to the high level of the conference with more than 150,000 attendees. The conference chairman J. Cai would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2462021YXZZ005) toward his research on petrophysics of unconventional reservoirs.

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