Dear Colleagues,

Energy resources are critical to achieving the sustainable development of our society during this period of rapid population growth and global industrialization. Most of the energy we use today comes from hydrocarbons, oil and natural gas.

Hydrocarbons will continue to play a significant role in the coming decades, providing much-needed energy to industry and people, and make everyday products from fuel to plastics. The main goal of this issue is to understand whether hydrocarbons remain in a position to meet the needs of a changing environment, whatever that may be.

This issue focuses on providing the reliable information required by the energy community under pressure from the transformation of the global energy system. The main topics up for discussion in submissions include but are not limited to the following:

(1) Hydrocarbon origin. This question is still one of the main questions for the petroleum industry;

(2) Hydrocarbon reserves. How much oil and natural gas do we have?

(3) Hydrocarbons and CO₂ emissions. New technologies to safely capture and store CO₂ to mitigate the use of hydrocarbons;

(4) Paradigm shift on the global energy market: natural gas dominated;

(5) Barriers and driving forces in the petroleum industry;

(6) Offshore hydrocarbons projects, Arctic projects.

Dr. Vladimir Kutcherov
Dr. Valery Bessel
Guest Editors

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• hydrocarbons
• global energy system
• hydrocarbon origin
• hydrocarbon reserves
• Arctic hydrocarbons