Publications

The Fengcheng Formation is a nonmarine, carbonate-dominated succession that formed under arid climatic conditions in a hydrologically closed basin. Two transects and two seismic profiles were examined, the characteristics and environmental significance of different lithofacies were studied, and a model of depositional environment divisions was proposed.

A large number of small-scale lacustrine sedimentary basins are widely distributed across China. Studies of such basins have been limited. These basins have complex characteristics and thus exhibit significant differences in terms of their hydrocarbon potential.

Oil mixing and absence of source-rock samples make it difficult to identify the hydrocarbon migration routes in a petroleum system. We provide a case study in the northwestern Junggar Basin to show that combined geochemical and phase fractionation analyses are robust tools to unravel the complex hydrocarbon migration processes.

The Paleogene shale of the Dongying depression, a continental basin in eastern China, is taken as the study subject to examine the microscopic features of lacustrine shale reservoirs in the oil window. This study shows that shale pores in this evolutionary stage are present at the micrometer to nanometer scale, but fractures commonly have extension distances at the millimeter scale.

Shale gas in the Sichuan Basin and its periphery potentially plays an important role in the world shale gas industry. An understanding of remigration and leakage from continuous shale reservoirs is very important for shale gas exploration, especially in the Sichuan Basin and its periphery.