Continental tight oil is a realistic unconventional petroleum resource in recent years in China and an important supplement to the growth of domestic petroleum reserves and production.In the first three years of the 13
th Five-Year Plan,the research team has made three research advances in the theoretical and technological research and exploration and development practice of continental tight oil in China,based on the guidance of the research objectives of the China National Science and Technology Major Project “Enrichment Regularity and Key Technologies for Exploration and Development of Tight Oil”,the laboratory test of the State Key Laboratory and the field test of eight petroleum companies of CNPC.(1)Formation conditions:It is found that the lamellar organic-rich shale is the main source rock,and there are many types of favorable reservoirs,such as terrigenous clasts and internal clasts,which mainly include two kinds of large-scale and continuous distribution of reservoir-forming assemblages within source and near source.(2)Enrichment rules:It is demonstrated that favorable reservoir facies zone,near hydrocarbon source center and certain tectonic background are the three common controlling factors for enrichment and high production,and the scale of tight oil resources is estimated to be 106.5×
108t.Forty enrichment zones were identified and a number of drillable “sweet areas” were pointed out.(3)Key exploration and development technologies:new progress has been made in multi-scale tight reservoir characterization,resource grading evaluation,source rock-reservoir quality logging evaluation,“sweet area” seismic response and engineering evaluation,tight oil effective development technology,tight reservoir reconstruction technology,etc.Based on the above research China of continental tight oil has vealised overall rapid development,by the end of 2018,the proven petroleum geological reserves are 4.37×
108t,the predicted reserves are 30.19×
108t,and the new capacity is 331×10
4t.In the last two years of the 13
th Five-Year Plan,we should focus on three major areas:Clastic rock,hubrid rock tuff and lacustrine carbonate rock,and focus on five aspects:Deepening enrichment regularity research,“sweet area” evaluation and prediction,key development technologies,efficient reservoir transformation technology and practical application of key basins,so as to support the stable development of the integration of continental tight oil geological engineering in China.