This open access book focuses on the geological conditions associated with oil and gas exploration and complex in China’s deep marine strata. The petroleum industry is faced with the challenges of limited knowledge of deep petroleum systems, reduced signal-to-noise ratio of deep reservoir targets, and increased engineering risks associated with drilling and completion of ultra-deep wells. This book tackles these challenges with the introduction and investigation of a variety of geological processes from basin evolution, source rock and reservoir deposition, petroleum generation, migration, accumulation, and redistribution in the three ancient cratons in China. It addresses these geological processes in both sedimentary facies and strike-slip fault controlled reservoirs, including theoretical, experimental, and simulation approaches. In addition, it discusses new advances in the geophysics, drilling, and completion engineering specifically related to the deep marine strata. This book will be very useful for petroleum geologists, geophysicists, engineers, technicians, academics, and students who need to study the petroleum geology and exploration methods.
Status and Outlook of Deep Marine Petroleum Exploration and Development
in China.- Evolution of Deep Marine Sedimentary Filling and Development of
High-quality Hydrocarbon Source Rocks in Cratonic Basins, China.-
Tectonic-sedimentary differentiation of cratonic basins in China and its
controlling effects on the development of large-scale carbonate reservoirs.-
Structural Transformation in Cratonic Basins and Influence on Oil and Gas
Accumulation in Deep Marine Strata.- Geothermal and Geopressure Regimes in
Ultra-deep Sedimentary Strata, Tarim and Sichuan Basins.- Diversity and
effectiveness of deep marine source rocks in the Sichuan and Tarim basins.-
Multiple Types of Deep Carbonate Reservoirs in China: Consensuses and New
Developments.- Dynamic Mechanism and Prediction Methods for Deep Marine
Hydrocarbon Accumulation.- Typical Examples and Exploration Potentials of
Large-scale Petroleum Accumulations in Deep and Ultra-Deep Carbonate
Reservoirs in China.- Geological Characteristics and Development Techniques
of Ultra-Deep Carbonate Sour Gas Reservoirs: A Case Study of the Puguang Gas
Field.- Fluid Flow Mechanism and Numerical Simulation Method in Deep
Fracture-Cavity Reservoirs, Tarim Basin.- Deep Shale Gas Accumulation, Flow
Mechanisms and Development Methods in the Sichuan Basin.- Advances in
Drilling and Completion for Deep Marine Reservoirs.
Yongsheng Ma is Chief GeologistSinopec Group Company, FellowChinese Academy of Engineering, and Adjunct Professor at Peking University. Dr. Ma was Recipient of the 2022 Norman Foster Explorer Award from American Association of Petroleum Geologists, for his contribution to Sinopecs discovery of two giant deep gas fields in Sichuan Basin and the first commercial development of shale gas field (Fuling) outside of North America. Maowen Li has been Chief Scientist at the Sinopec Petroleum Exploration and Production Research Institute and Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Resource Development since 2010, after 24 years of study and work in Australia, UK, and Canada. He has authored 170+ technical papers, with a h-index of 59. He has been Associate Editor of organic geochemistry for 30 years and serves on editorial board for many journals. Hairuo Qing is Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Regina, Canada. His main interest is in the characterization and modeling of carbonate reservoirs. He is Editor in Chief of the Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology and Associate Editor for sedimentology.
