International Conference on
Non-marine Basin Systems:
Depositional Processes and Products, Stratigraphy,
and Petroleum Reservoir Exploration

The Conference

Non-marine deposits dominate many of the world’s sedimentary basins and contain vast oil and gas accumulations. Building upon the past decade’s advances in technology and concepts, as well as increasing exploration experience, the ‘International Conference on Non-marine Basin Systems: Depositional Processes and Products, Stratigraphy, and Petroleum Reservoir Exploration’ will be held 10-19 May 2007, including a 3-day meeting in Beijing, followed by a 1-week field trip. Geoscientists from around the world who are interested in non-marine basins and petroleum geology are invited to take part in the conference, presenting their research results, making suggestions and exchanging their scientific opinions on non-marine basin systems. China produces nearly 200 million tons of oil and 50 billion cubic meters of gas every year, and most of them flow from reservoirs in non-marine basins. China’s non-marine systems occur in intracontinental sag-basins, rift basins and foreland basins. Chinese sedimentologists and petroleum geologists have much experience in China’s non-marine basins and vast collections of data, and many case histories will be presented at the conference. Nevertheless, most non-marine basins are in mature exploration stages in China, and new exploration concepts and models are needed to find litho-stratigraphic traps.  The conference is co-organized by PetroChina Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Stanford University, the Committee of Sedimentary Geology, Geological Society of China, the Committee of Sedimentology, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry, and Changqing Oilfield Company, PetroChina

Key Issues to be addressed

• Non-marine basin evolution and sequence stratigraphy
• Depositional response to orogenic events and controls on sand-body distribution in non-marine foreland basins
• Shallow-water delta systems and characteristics associated sandstones in large non-marine depression basins
• Controls and distribution of non-marine depositional systems in rift basins
• Distribution and controls on fine-grained facies: petroleum sources and seals in non-marine basins
• Accumulation and distribution of stratigraphic-lithologic reservoir and traps
• Exploration and case histories of stratigraphic-lithologic reservoirs