Optimization of Carbon Dioxide Foam Fracturing Technology for Shale Gas Reservoir by Chaoli Gao, Shiqing Cheng, Mingwei Wang, Wen Wu, Zhendong Gao, Song Li, Xuangang Meng

“…Major shale gas exploration and development fields are located in the Sichuan basin. It requires huge water sources for shale gas fracking, but the well sites are mostly in the hills, which limits the industrialization of shale gas development. …”
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Brittleness Evaluation of Shale Based on the Brazilian Splitting Test by Bing Hou, Yijin Zeng, Meng Fan, Dandan Li

“…The experimental shale cores are from the Longmaxi formation, Silurian system, Sichuan basin.…”
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Mechanism of Forming Low Resistivity in Shale Reservoirs by Jirong Xie, Jiahuan He, Keming Zhou, Zhijuan Tang, Manfei Chen, Tingting He, Mengwen Zou, Tao Luo, Nong Li, Li Wang

“…However, a lot of exploration and development practices on shale gas reservoirs in Sichuan Basin, China, prove that it is hard to characterize a functional relation between resistivity and water saturation using the Archie equation. …”
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Fine Detection and Analysis of Hidden Karst in Wellsite with Quasi-Three-Dimensional TDEM Based on Lateral Constraint by Bin Wu, Yunping Liao, Hongkai Chen, Lichuan Chen, Shicong Ren, Shihong Xiao, Yunjian Yang, Yong Yang, Haiyou Peng

“…Considering that karst caves, underground rivers, and dissolution fractures in shallow carbonate formation in the Sichuan Basin are extremely developed, leakage, failure and plugging difficulties are easy to occur in the drilling process. …”
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Dimension Analysis-Based Model for Prediction of Shale Compressive Strength by Xiangyu Fan, Fenglin Xu, Lin Chen, Qiao Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Guanghua Yao, Wen Nie

“…Based on correlation analysis between factors (confining stress, height/diameter ratio, bedding angle, and porosity) and shale compressive strength (Longmaxi Shale in Sichuan Basin, China), we develop a dimension analysis-based model for prediction of shale compressive strength. …”
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Analysis of the Influencing Factors on the Well Performance in Shale Gas Reservoir by Cheng Dai, Liang Xue, Weihong Wang, Xiang Li

“…In this paper, we build a numerical simulation model, which has the ability to take the unique shale gas flow mechanisms into account, to quantitatively describe the gas production characteristics in each region based on the field data collected from a shale gas reservoir in Sichuan Basin in China. The contribution of the free gas and adsorbed gas to the total production is analyzed dynamically through the entire life of the shale gas production by adopting a component subdivision method. …”
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Lower Cambrian Organic-Rich Shales in Southern China: A Review of Gas-Bearing Property, Pore Structure, and Their Controlling Factors by Gang Li, Ping Gao, Xianming Xiao, Chengang Lu, Yue Feng

“…The gas content of the Lower Cambrian shales in the Weiyuan-Qianwei block of the Sichuan Basin and the western Hubei area generally exceeds 2 m3/t, and gas composition is dominated by CH4. …”
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Impact of Geological Factors on Marine Shale Gas Enrichment and Reserve Estimation: A Case Study of Jiaoshiba Area in Fuling Gas Field by Siyu Yu, Xixin Wang, Shaohua Li, Yuming Liu, Liming Xiao, Xin Liu, Wen Zhao, Jiaen Zhang

“…Herein, we measured gas adsorption, porosity, mineralogical composition, and total organic carbon content of the marine shale samples from the Jiaoshiba area of Fuling gas field in Sichuan Basin, South China, and investigate the relationships between the geological factors and the adsorbed gas content. …”
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Modeling the Viscoelastic Behavior of Quartz and Clay Minerals in Shale by Nanoindentation Creep Tests by Jianfeng Wang, Yuke Liu, Chao Yang, Wenmin Jiang, Yun Li, Yongqiang Xiong

“…., quartz and clay) in Longmaxi Formation shale from the Sichuan Basin, South China, were conducted using a nanoindentation technique and high-resolution optical microscope. …”
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Improving WRF-Chem PM2.5 predictions by combining data assimilation and deep-learning-based bias correction by Xingxing Ma, Hongnian Liu, Zhen Peng

“…Besides having the best optimization effect over the whole domain, the combined method also performed well in different regions: during the forecasting period of 0–24 h, the RMSEs decreased from 32 % to 62 %, 39 % to 57 %, 28 % to 40 %, and 30 % to 49 % in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Central China, and Sichuan Basin urban agglomerations, respectively.…”
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Sedimentary Facies of the Longmaxi Formation Shale Gas Reservoir in the Weiyuan Area Based on Elemental Characteristics by Yijia Wu, Hongming Tang, Ying Wang, Jing Li, Yanxiang Zeng, Songlian Jiang, Yongcheng Mu

“…The Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in the southern Sichuan Basin is composed of a series of dark carbonaceous shales deposited in a hydrostatic shelf reduction environment. …”
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Pore Structure and Fractal Characteristics of Shale under the Control of Bedding and Size: A Case Study of Shale from the Longmaxi Formation in China by Yao Cheng, Yifeng Xie, Yulin Ma, Yanlin Zhao

“…In this study, the pore structure and fractal characteristics of shale samples with different bedding directions and sizes from the Longmaxi Formation of the Changning block in the Sichuan Basin were investigated by using CT imaging and low-temperature nitrogen adsorption experiments. …”
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Integrated AutoML-based framework for optimizing shale gas production: A case study of the Fuling shale gas field by Tianrui Ye, Jin Meng, Yitian Xiao, Yaqiu Lu, Aiwei Zheng, Bang Liang

“…Validation with field data from the Fuling shale gas field in the Sichuan Basin substantiates the framework's efficacy in enhancing the precision and applicability of data-driven techniques. …”
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The Application of Integrated Assisted History Matching and Embedded Discrete Fracture Model Workflow for Well Spacing Optimization in Shale Gas Reservoirs with Complex Natural Fra... by Qiwei Li, Jianfa Wu, Cheng Chang, Hongzhi Yang, Chuxi Liu, Wei Yu, Kamy Sepehrnoori, Jijun Miao

“…This work applied an integrated well spacing optimization workflow in shale gas reservoirs of the Sichuan Basin in China with both hydraulic and natural fractures. …”
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Nature and Evolution of the Ore-Forming Fluids from Nanmushu Carbonate-Hosted Zn-Pb Deposit in the Mayuan District, Shaanxi Province, Southwest China by Suo-Fei Xiong, Yong-Jun Gong, Shu-Zhen Yao, Chuan-Bo Shen, Xiang Ge, Shao-Yong Jiang

“…The Nanmushu carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb deposit is located in the Mayuan district of Shaanxi Province, a newly discovered metallogenic district next to the Sichuan Basin, in the northern margin of the Yangtze Block, which is the largest and the only one that is currently mined in this district. …”
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Progress and insights from worldwide deep coalbed methane exploration and development by Jiaqi ZHANG, Zengqin LIU, Baojian SHEN, Shihu ZHAO, Xinjun CHEN, Jincheng YE

“…Deep CBM exploration in the Sichuan Basin has made positive progress, and the Junggar Basin shows potential for deep CBM exploration. …”
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A Laboratory Approach Considering Salinity to Investigate Archie’s Parameters in Deep Shale: A Case Study in Longmaxi Formation, Southern Sichuan by Yanran Li, Xiangui Liu, Changhong Cai, Zhiming Hu, Bo Wu, Ying Mu, Xianggang Duan, Qingxiu Zhang, Shuti Zeng, Jingshu Guo, Zhijin Pu

“…The paper provides a solid evidence base for further understanding and evaluation of water saturation in unconventional shale reservoirs, more significantly, innovatively unveils the research into Archie formula in deep shale reservoirs of southern Sichuan basin.…”
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China’s CBM exploration and production and associated technological advancements: A review and reflections by Jianping YE

“…Specifically, deep CBM will be the primary target for future CBM exploration and production and technological research, and it is necessary to intensify and accelerate the exploration and production of deep CBM resources in platform-type sedimentary basins such as the Ordos, Junggar, Turpan-Hami, Tarim, and Sichuan Basins. Large-scale production of moderately deep CBM is identified as an important direction. …”
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