AAPG Memoir 74, Chapter 16: Geologic Challenges of Exploration, Onshore China, with Special Focus on the Tarim and Junggar Basins, by B. J. Katz, Pages 319 - 334
from: AAPG Memoir 74: Petroleum Provinces of the Twenty-first Century, Edited by Marlan W. Downey, Jack C. Threet, and William A. Morgan
Copyright 2001 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.

Chapter 16
Geologic Challenges of Exploration: Onshore China, with Special Focus
on the Tarim and Junggar Basins

Barry J. Katz
Texaco Group Inc., Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

ABSTRACT

Onshore China has more than 20 major sedimentary basins. Significant oil production is currently limited to only three basins--Songliao, Bohaiwan, and Junggar. Exploration results in some of the other onshore basins have been disappointing; in others, activities have been limited because of their remoteness. This paper focuses primarily on the Junggar and Tarim Basins because of their large size and potential for significant oil and gas discoveries.