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National Petroleum Corporation, China Petroleum and Chemical
Corporation, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), China University of
Petroleum (East China), as well as major oil companies in China have
extended their help and support toward these achievements. We would like to
express our heartfelt gratitude to all of you for your hard work and dedication
on research on gas wettability of porous media reservoirs and gas wettability’s
application in petroleum engineering. We sincerely thank all of you for your
excellent contribution towards this book’s publication.
In addition, we wish to extend our gratitude toward famous scholars such as
Luo Pingya and Su Yinao, who are academicians at the Chinese Academy of
Engineering, and Professor Yan Jienian, for their valuable comments on the
manuscript.
Finally, we wish to state that there are bound to be oversights and omissions
due to unexpected reasons. We would be grateful to receive comments and
criticism from readers regarding this book. At the same time, as theoretical
basis for gas wettability of reservoirs with porous media belongs to a new
research direction, gas wettability’s application in petroleum engineering
should not be limited to the four aspects stated in this book. Research on
application in other aspects needs to be studied further by domestic and inter-
national counterparts. This book’s publication aims to set off an upsurge in
theoretical research on gas wettability of porous media reservoirs, and applica-
tion of theoretical research results toward conducting research and develop-
ment for several new technologies in the petroleum engineering field.
Gas-wetness theory is gradually improving, and professional core course
content on oil engineering “Petrophysics” and “Reservoir Engineering” at col-
leges and universities are being enhanced, and it is contributing to efficient
exploration and development of shale gas, coalbed methane, low permeability
reservoirs, heavy oil reservoirs, and deep water and deep reservoirs.

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