For almost a century, various predictions have been made that the human race was imminently going to run out of available petroleum. The passing of time has proven all those predictions to have been utterly wrong. It is pointed out here how all such predictions have depended fundamentally upon an archaic hypothesis from the 18th century that petroleum somehow (miraculously) evolved from biologi...

In previous works, it was introduced an approach to support collaborative construction and evolution of domain ontologies based on UFO-A. However, there are areas of knowledge, like in the petroleum geology, where we need to represent some natural/geological phenomena which aren’t possible to be well represented by UFO-A constructs, by the fact that this concepts are treated as events that occu...

In petroleum industry, during production, the vertical effective stress in the reservoir increases as the pore pressure decreases from few hundreds to few tens bar; in average the horizontal effective stress increases as well, but at a lower rate along an oedometric path, favoring shear stress and reservoir depletion; a complex geology induces locally a variety of stress paths between the two e...

X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive technique with wide applications in various geological disciplines. It reveals the internal structure of objects, determined by variations in density and atomic composition. Large numbers of parallel 2D sections can be obtained, which allows 3D imaging of selected features. Important applications are the study of porosity and fluid flow, appli...

This article discusses the major trends in Petroleum Engineering research 2016–2021 based on a bibliometric analysis of metadata articles indexed by The Lens platform. A comparative topics related to is conducted. Major institutes, countries, and funding foundations involved petroleum engineering are identified. leading role Chinese institutes undertaking this shown. Links established between a...