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CHINA THRUST BELT EXPLORATION-1: Oil discovery revives China foreland basin after long lull
07/09/2007
Located in the northern edge of the Qilian Mountain fold belt in western China, the Jiuxi basin is a Mesozoic-Cenozoic foreland basin with Lower Cretaceous source rocks and Tertiary-Cretaceous reservoirs.This is the first of two parts on the course of exploration and a relatively recent discovery that has implications for broader exploration in foreland basins and thrust belts elsewhere.The Jiuxi basin is small but has 67 years of exploration history.Five Tertiary anticline oil fields had been found in the foreland thrust belt at the southern margin of the basin with oil in place of 61.61 million tons from 1950 to 1960 and a peak production of 1.4 million tons in 1959. Since then, no disc...
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