Special Section of Evaluation of Natural Gas Hydrate Resource Potential in the South China Sea

1. Reduction of global natural gas hydrate (NGH) resource estimation and implications for the NGH development in the South China Sea
2. Research progress and challenges of natural gas hydrate resource evaluation in the South China Sea
3. Distribution and resource evaluation of natural gas hydrate in South China sea by combing phase equilibrium mechanism and volumetric method
4. Evaluation of natural gas hydrate resources in the South China Sea by combining volumetric and trend-analysis methods
5. Evaluation of natural gas hydrate resources in the South China Sea using a new genetic analogy method
6. Focus on research advances in the natural gas hydrate resource evaluation:Introduction to papers in the special section of Evaluation of Natural Gas Hydrate Resource Potential in the South China Sea

Petroleum Geology & Geophysics

1. The influence of water level changes on sand bodies at riverdominated delta fronts：The Gubei Sag,Bohai Bay Basin
2. Source of silica and its implications for organic matter enrichment in the Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian black shale in western Hubei Province,China:Insights from geochemical and petrological analysis
3. An integral method for calculation of capillary pressure based on centrifuge data of tight sandstone
4. Influence of structural damage on evaluation of microscopic pore structure in marine continental transitional shale of the Southern North China Basin:A method based on the low-temperature N2 adsorption experiment
5. Application of multi-attribute matching technology based on geological models for sedimentary facies:A case study of the 3rd member in the Lower Jurassic Badaowan Formation,Hongshanzui area,Junggar Basin,China
6. Research progress on seismic imaging technology
7. Seismic impedance inversion based on cycle-consistent generative adversarial network
8. SegNet-based first-break picking via seismic waveform classification directly from shot gathers with sparsely distributed traces
9. A new deep-reading look-ahead method in electromagnetic loggingwhile-drilling using the scattered electric field from magnetic dipole antennas

Petroleum Engineering & Mechanics

1. A comprehensive review of in-situ polymer gel simulation for conformance control
2. Effect of confinement on the three-phase equilibrium of water-oil-CO2 mixtures in nanopores
3. Influence of formation in-situ stress on mechanical heterogeneity of shale through grid nanoindentation
4. Effects of creep characteristics of natural gas hydrate-bearing sediments on wellbore stability
5. Impact of clay stabilizer on the methane desorption kinetics and isotherms of Longmaxi Shale,China
6. Self-healing elastomer modified proppants for proppant flowback control in hydraulic fracturing
7. A novel model for the proppant equilibrium height in hydraulic fractures for slickwater treatments
8. A deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based approach for well-testing interpretation to evaluate reservoir parameters
9. Microscopic sand production simulation and visual sanding pattern description in weakly consolidated sandstone reservoirs
10. Numerical investigation on the effect of depletion-induced stress reorientation on infill well hydraulic fracture propagation
11. Hollow glass microspheres/silicone rubber composite materials toward materials for high performance deep in-situ temperaturepreserved coring
12. The effect of chelating agent on hydrodesulfurization reaction of ordered mesoporous alumina supported NiMo catalysts
13. Electric power generation technology of natural gas pressure reduction:Insights from black box-gray box hierarchical exergy analysis and evaluation method

Petrochemistry & Chemical Engineering

1. Charge effects on quinoline hydrodenitrogenation catalyzed by Ni-Mo-S active sites-A theoretical study by DFT calculation
2. Efficient aerobic oxidative desulfurization via three-dimensional ordered macroporous tungsten-titanium oxides
3. The role and potential of attapulgite in catalytic pyrolysis of refinery waste activated sludge
4. Hydrogen solubility prediction for diesel molecules based on a modified Henry equation
5. Hierarchically porous Beta/SBA-16 with different silica-alumina ratios and the hydrodesulfurization performances of DBT and 4,6-DMDBT
6. Plugging property and displacement characters of a novel hightemperature resistant polymer nanoparticle
7. Insights into the multiple applications of modified polyacrylamide as oilfield corrosion inhibitor and water phase tackifier

Petroleum Economics & Management

1. Two-stage robust power cost minimization in a natural gas compressor station
2. Urban natural gas demand and factors analysis in China:Perspectives of price and income elasticities