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Will the future of shale reservoirs lie in CO2 geological sequestration?

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CO2 geological sequestration in a depleted shale gas reservoir is a promising method to address the global energy crisis as well as to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Though improvements have been achieved by many researchers, the carbon sequestration and enhanced gas recovery (CS-EGR) in shale formations is still in a preliminary stage. The current research status of CO2 sequestration in shale gas reservoirs with potential EGR is systematically and critically addressed in the paper. In addition, some original findings are also presented in this paper. This paper will shed light on the technology development that addresses the dual problem of energy crisis and environmental degradation.

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  1. School of Petroleum Engineering, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, 710065, China

    Jie Zhan

  2. Engineering Research Center of Development and Management for Low to Ultra-Low Permeability Oil & Gas Reservoirs in West China, Ministry of Education, Xi’an Shiyou University, Xi’an, 710065, China

    Jie Zhan

  3. Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, T2N1N4, Canada

    ZhangXin Chen

  4. Natural Gas Engineering Design Department, Xi’an Changqing Technology Engineering Co. Ltd, Xi’an, 710018, China

    Ying Zhang

  5. Petroleum Exploration and Development Research Institute, PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi’an, 710018, China

    ZiGang Zheng

  6. State Key Laboratory of Oil & Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China

    Qi Deng

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This work was supported by the General Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 51974253 and 51974247), the Youth Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 41502311), the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2019JQ-525) and the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2020JQ-781).

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Zhan, J., Chen, Z., Zhang, Y. et al. Will the future of shale reservoirs lie in CO2 geological sequestration?. Sci. China Technol. Sci. 63, 1154–1163 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11431-019-1532-6

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