Progress in the research of “continuous” petroleum accumulations abroad

  • ZHU Rukai ,
  • MAO Zhiguo ,
  • GUO Hongli ,
  • WANG Jun
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  • Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina, Beijing 100083, China

Online published: 2009-12-16

Abstract

The exploration and development of unconventional oil and gas abroad have made significant progress, some unconventional oil and gas reservoirs have continuous geological features. It is meaningful to summarize the geologic features of continuous petroleum accumulations for guiding domestic hydrocarbon exploration. The background, definition and characteristics of the “continuous” petroleumaccumulations were depicted through studying a number of related foreign papers. It shows that “continuous” petroleumaccumulations have large spatial dimensions and indistinctly defined boundaries, and exist more or less independent water column, and can be assessed with FORSPAN methods different from conventional accumulations resource-assessment.

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ZHU Rukai , MAO Zhiguo , GUO Hongli , WANG Jun . Progress in the research of “continuous” petroleum accumulations abroad[J]. Lithologic Reservoirs, 2009 , 21(4) : 130 -134 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8926.2009.04.027

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