Research Areas

New energy (geothermal, hydrate) drilling and completion methods, theory and technology, oil and gas well testing

Research Projects

[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on Production Increase Mechanism and Regulation Method of Radial Cavitation Jet at the Bottom of Natural Gas Hydrate Well, 2022-2025, Project Leader.


[2] National Natural Science Foundation of China, Research on the Mechanism of Cavitation Jet Crushing of Natural Gas Hydrate Ore Body, 2019-2021, Project Leader.


[3] National Key R&D Program Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Energy Technology Project, Sandstone Thermal Reservoir Production and Irrigation Efficiency Technology and Equipment, 2019-2022, Project Leader.


[4] National Key R&D Program for Deep Earth Resources Exploration and Mining, Xiong'an New Area Deep Geothermal Resources Exploration and Evaluation Technology Demonstration, 2018-2021, Special Leader.


[5] National Key R&D Program for Key Scientific Issues in Transformative Technology, Basic Research and Industrial Demonstration of Heavy Oil Chemical Composite Cold Mining, 2019-2024, Special Leader.


[6] National Key R&D Program, Intergovernmental Key Project of International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation, Key Technology and Optimization Design Platform for Geothermal Intelligent Well Drilling and Completion (Conclusion), 2017-2019, Project Leader.


[7] China University of Petroleum (Beijing) Talent Introduction Research Start-up Fund, Basic Research on Geothermal Intelligent Well Drilling and Completion (Final), 2016-2019, Project Leader.

Publications

[1] Yiqun Zhang*, Xiaoya Wu, Xiao Hu, Bo Zhang, et al. Visualization and investigation of the erosion process for natural gas hydrate using water jet through experiments and simulation, Energy Reports, 2022, 8. (SCI)


[2] Yiqun Zhang*, Wei Wang, Panpan Zhang, Gensheng Li, et al. A Solution to Sand Production from Natural Gas Hydrate Deposits with Radial Wells: Combined Gravel Packing and Sand Screen, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 2022, 10(1), 71. (SCI)


[3] Yiqun Zhang*, Kexian Zhao, Xiaoya Wu, Shouceng Tian, et al. An Innovative Experimental Apparatus for the Analysis of Natural Gas Hydrate Erosion Process Using Cavitating Jet, Review of Scientific Instruments, 2020, 91(9). (SCI)


[4] Yiqun Zhang*, Chao Yu, Gensheng Li, Xiaofeng Guo, et al. Performance Analysis of a Downhole Coaxial Heat Exchanger Geothermal System with Various Working Fluids, Applied Thermal Engineering, 2019, 163(12). (SCI)


[5] Yiqun Zhang* and Shiyi Zheng, Down-hole transient temperature, pressure and flow-rate data processing and integrated interpretation for nonlinearity diagnosis using wavelet transform. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering, 2017, 37: 361-374. (SCI)


[6] Yiqun Zhang*, Shiyi Zheng and Qi Wang, Improved Analysis of Transient Temperature Data from Permanent Down-hole Gauges (PDGs). Journal of Geophysics and Engineering, 2017,