Publications

The Muli Basin in the Qinghai Province, located at the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, is a Jurassic coal-bearing basin, and is an important area for coal production in China. Recent explorations have revealed the presence of unconventional types of gases such as coalbed methane and gas hydrates.

Petrographic, detrital zircon, major, trace, and rare earth element data from the deep-water slope upper Miocene upper Mount Messenger Formation, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand have been characterized to examine their provenance, tectonic setting, grain size, and source-to-sink implications.

The authors examine this question by studying the simple and well-characterized Duvernay petroleum system of the Western Canada sedimentary basin. This study shows that the Re-Os isotope systematics of an oil can yield the timing of oil generation and be used to trace its source.

This study outlines five stages of tectonic evolution of the Junggar Basin, northwest China, since the Permian and provides insights into the control of basin-scale tectonics on the spatial and temporal distribution of reservoirs. The authors identify areas for deep-seated petroleum exploration.

Solid bitumen Re-Os geochronology of the Micang Shan uplift, northern Sichuan Basin, China, coupled with bitumen reflectance, fluorescence analysis, and apatite fission-track data, demonstrate that this approach can provide valuable chronological data for petroleum evolution.

This study of the Dongying depression, Bohai Basin, China, provides insights into the primary gas sorption capacity controls for lacustrine mudstones and discusses the shale oil and gas resource potential and possible risks in their future production.

Upper Eocene Enping Formation mudstones in the Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea, which formed during a lake-flooding event, are one of the most important sets of cap rocks in the basin. However, the generation potential of Enping Formation mudstones remains poorly understood and controversial.

The Nanpu sag is an important secondary tectonic division of the Bohai Bay Basin and has an area of 1,532 km2 (591 mi2), of which 1,000 km2 (386 mi2) has been explored near Bohai.