Highlighting characteristics of petroleum exploration, valuing inherent development, and enhancing construction of the national key discipline

Key words:  national key discipline  petroleum exploration  basin dynamics  petroleum resources evaluation  sedimentary deposit  reservoir description

Abstract:

This paper introduces the construction of national key discipline in China University of Petroleum in the past ten years on the basic subjects, directions, characteristics and development trend of researches, especially the performances and progresses based on technological innovation. Practices have proved that, the discipline of “mineral prospecting and exploration” in China University of Petroleum has made innovative achievements in the fields of petroleum geology and exploration:i.e., building up the platform that can undertake the national key scientific missions, forming scientific research teams dedicated to solve geological problems, training high level experienced researchers, and improving the university academic influence internationally thanks to the prominent characteristics on petroleum exploration and the development centering on the inherence. It has become an important base of technological innovation, researcher training and academic exchanges in China 's petroleum geological theory and exploration techniques.