Lithologic Reservoirs ,started in 1989, is a non-profit academic journal jointly sponsored by Northwest Geological Research Institute Company of CNPC and Gansu Petroleum Society. From 1989 to 2006, the journal was titled Northwest Oil & Gas Exploration ,which was an internal publication. In 2006, with the approval of the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China, the journal was renamed Lithologic Reservoirs and approved to be issued at domestic and overseas. Its competent department is China National Petroleum Corporation.
Lithologic Reservoirs is a Chinese Science Citation Database core (CSCD-C) journal,Chinese core journal, Chinese core journals of science and technology, Chinese core academic journals, and has been included in China Journal Full-text Database，American Petroleum Abstracts (PA), American Chemical Society (CAS) and Elsevier's Scopus database , etc.
The aims of Lithologic Reservoirs: build a bilingual international academic platform for the talented who majored in petroleum science and technology, to develop petroleum geological theory, disclose the law of hydrocarbon exploration and development, improve the methods innovation of petroleum engineering, promote academic exchange and disciplines construction.
The scopes of Lithologic Reservoirs:set standing columns with Petroleum Geology, Oil and Gas Field Development, Petroleum Engineering, Exploration Technology and Forum & Review.
This journal is issued bimonthly, and best for petroleum geologist, engineer, professor, manager and undergraduate.
International standard serial number: ISSN 1673-8926
Domestic uniform serial publication number: CN 62-1195/TE
Code number(CODEN）：YYAOAY
International distribution code: Q4996
Domestic distribution code: 54-182
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