关键词: 油气勘探, 重要发现, 勘探目标, 中国, 发展前景

Abstract: In recent years China's petroleum exploration moves forward quickly,generally achieving the following four discoveries:(1)oil fields with reserves over 1.7 billion tons(Bt)in the shallow layer of the offshore Bohai Bay Basin;(2)great discoveries in the thrust belts of western China;(3)the Chinese largest carbonate reservoir field found in the Lunan Uplift of northern Tarim;and (4)several large gas fields with large reserves in western China, especially in Kuqa Depression of Tarim basin,central part of Ordos basin and northeastern Sichuan basin.The above oil and gas discoveries bring forward and important inspiration that China has large area worth exploring.In the coming 5~10 years,China's hydrocarbon exploration will be prospective.

Key words: petroleum exploration, new discoveries, inspiration, prospective