Focus on research advances in the natural gas hydrate resource evaluation: Introduction to papers in the special section of Evaluation of Natural Gas Hydrate Resource Potential in the South China Sea

摘要

The continental hydrocarbon generation theory has opened a new field of oil and gas development and once solved the oil and gas shortage problem in China.Since then,geological theories of coalbed methane accumulation,foreland basin oil and gas accumulation,carbonate rock oil and gas accumulation,superimposed basin,and deep oil and gas accumulation have contributed to relieving the pressure of oil and gas shortage in China.