Based on analysis of the characteristics of unconventional hydrocarbon resources, this
paper assesses the potential for unconventional hydrocarbons in China, summarizes the …

The China National Petroleum Corporation Limited (CNPC) has preliminarily achieved the
large-scale production of unconventional oil and gas. However, considering its abundant …

Petroleum geology is evolving into two branches, conventional petroleum geology and
unconventional petroleum geology, with the latter becoming a new theoretical frontier in the …

The new century has witnessed a strategic breakthrough in unconventional oil & gas.
Hydrocarbon accumulated in micro‐/nano‐scale pore throat shale systems has become an …

Petroleum geology is developing in two directions: conventional petroleum geology and
unconventional petroleum geology. Conventional petroleum focuses on" whether …

It is an inevitable trend for oil and gas industry to transform exploration & development
domain from conventional hydrocarbon accumulations to unconventional hydrocarbon ones …

Since the beginning of the 21st century, discoveries of global unconventional oil and gas
have entered an active period. Production of tight oil/shale oil has increased rapidly, shale …

The global hydrocarbon exploration targets and the research of petroleum geology tend to
switch from mm-μm-size pore-throats of hydrocarbon traps to continuous hydrocarbon …

It is of great practical and strategic importance to march deeper into the earth to explore
deep oil and gas resources and to build up a solid resource base for energy security in …

Major progress achieved in oil and gas exploration in terms of reserves, number of oil and
gas fields and discovery of large oilfields were analyzed, trend and progress of global oil …