China Region
China has the world's largest population and one of the fastest growing and dynamic economies. Coal is its dominant energy source, dwarfing all other energy sources combined. Renewables are growing, but from a low base meaning that hydrocarbons, and in particular gas, continue to play an important role as a transition fuel. China imports nearly half of its natural gas, prompting recent reforms to its energy sector to attract international E & P companies to re-enter the market. The basins of China have a highly complex and varied geology, with reservoirs from fractured Precambrian basement to Neogene fluvial clastics occurring within individual basins. An improved understanding of the Junggar, Ordos, Songliao, Bohai and Subei basins has recently taken on increased importance as they have been identified as the primary centres for China’s subsurface carbon dioxide storage.
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Most Recent Reports
- Palaeoecology, taphonomy and diagenesis of Early Jurassic shell accumulations in Lake Sichuan, China, and their implications for Pre-Salt reservoirs in the South Atlantic
- Early Jurassic coquinas from Lake Sichuan, China – a depositional analogue for Cretaceous Pre-Salt reservoirs in the South Atlantic?
- Lower Miocene reef facies and reservoirs in the Zhujiangkou Basin, South China Sea
- Ordovician carbonate reservoirs of the Qianmiqiao field in the Bohai Basin
- Recognition and hydrocarbon implications of the lower Tertiary Tufa and travertine in the Pingyi Basin, East China