Advances in Oil and Gas Exploration, Resources, and Production in China
A special issue of Geosciences (ISSN 2076-3263).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2026 | Viewed by 23
Special Issue Editors
2. Ordos Research Institute of Energy, Peking University, Ordos, China
Interests: petroleum geological survey and assessment; geophysical methods and algorithms; natural hydrogen exploration and assessment
Interests: the mechanism of oil and gas accumulation
Interests: the accumulation of ultradeep oil and gas and their associated resources; geological storage of CO2
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the period from 2021 to 2025, China’s oil and gas sector achieved remarkable successes in exploration and development, with investment, reserves, and production all reaching historic highs. Exploration efforts advanced into new frontiers, including “deep earth, deep water, unconventional resources, and new domains,” with major breakthroughs being achieved in the Tarim, offshore, and Ordos basins, while important discoveries were also made in new areas such as basin–orogen junctions and small- to medium-sized basin groups. Furthermore, new resources like deep coal-measure gas have been developed efficiently. In terms of theory and technology, innovations in geological research, such as ultradeep hydrocarbon accumulation, coupled with the upgrading of “deep-earth tools,” like 10,000-meter automated drilling rigs or the expanding use of digitalization and intelligence, have strongly supported the increase in oil and gas reserves and production.
Consequently, this Special Issue aims to showcase and disseminate the latest advances and new understandings in the theories and technologies of oil and gas exploration. It seeks to cover a wide range of settings, including onshore and offshore basins, ultradeep plays, and unconventional reservoirs, as well as new regions and strata such as basin–orogen junctions and small- to medium-sized basin groups.
Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Tectono-sedimentary characteristics and evolution and their relationship with hydrocarbon accumulation;
- Re-evaluation of source rocks and optimization of favorable hydrocarbon zones;
- Characteristics of reservoirs, seals, and traps and their relationship with hydrocarbon accumulation;
- Hydrocarbon accumulation models and resource potential in new areas, new strata, and new types;
- New advances and discoveries in onshore and offshore oil and gas exploration;
- New methods in oil and gas geophysics;
- New technologies in oil and gas geochemistry;
- New instruments and methods in petroleum experiments;
- New equipment and technologies for oil and gas exploration and development.
Prof. Dr. Yuanyin Zhang
Prof. Dr. Shang Xu
Prof. Dr. Zezhang Song
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new advances in oil and gas
- sedimentary-tectonic evolution
- accumulation elements and models
- resource potential assessment
- oil and gas exploration technology
- petroleum experimental methods
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