Energy Exploration & Exploitation is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides up-to-date, informative reviews and original articles on important issues in the exploration, exploitation, use and economics of the world’s energy resources.
Readers are able to keep abreast of advances and activities in many disciplines covering the full range of the energy industries. Contributions cover:
• crude and heavy oils, oil sands, shale oils and natural gas.
• coal and coal conversion to liquid and gas products.
• nuclear fuels, electricity and renewable energies.
• exploration and exploitation of fossil fuels and uranium.
• resource development, case histories of new fields, opportunities and prospects.
• reviews of energy company activities.
• environmental impact of exploration, development and use, together with
waste management.
• periodical reviews of major energy topics.
• short communications, conference reports and literature reviews.
The journal operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer’s name is always concealed from the submitting author.

Editor
Prof. Yuzhuang Sun
Hebei University of Engineering, China
Associate Editors
Prof. Prakash Kumar Singh
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Prof. Cunliang Zhao
Hebei University of Engineering, China
Editorial Board
Esam Abd El-Gawad
United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Sebnem Düzgün
Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Jim Hower
University of Kentucky, USA
Christopher Jablonowski
Shell, USA
Wolfgang Kalkreuth
Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Irena Kostova
Sofia University, Bulgaria
William Lamport
Iv-AGA Texas, USA
Ian Lerche
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
Guiqiang Li
University of Hull, UK
Zhijian Liu
North China Electric Power University, China
Fritz Neuweiler
Université Laval, Canada
Shenjun Qin
Hebei University of Engineering, China
Hamed Sanei
Geological Survey of Canada, Canada
Pratul Saraswati
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Mazin Tamar-Agha
Salahaddin University, Iraq
Seyed Mohammad Zamanzadeh
University of Tehran, Iran