Unconventional Petroleum Geology

President of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED) Professor, the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, CNPC. An expert on petroleum geology, Caineng Zou received a doctorate on Mineral Resource Prospecting and Exploration and is now vice-president and chief geologist of the Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED) of PetroChina; vice-chairman of China Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry Society and Beijing Petroleum society; deputy-director of the natural gas committee of China Petroleum Society (CPS); group leader of the reservoir division in the petroleum geology committee of CPS and unconventional gas division in the natural gas committee of CPS; a member of the editorial board for Petroleum Exploration and Development, Acta Petrolei Sinica, and Natural Gas Geoscience; a part-time professor in Beijing University. He is also the leader of the national project “Accumulation Law, Key Technologies and Targets’ Evaluation of Litho-stratigraphic Petroleum? and has been approved to receive the State Council special allowance in China. Dr. Zou has been awarded a National Top Prize for Progress in Science and Technology and ten Provincial or Ministerial Prizes in China. He has published over 90 papers and 5 monographs

Part I. Basic Knowledge About Unconventional Petroleum Geology1. Introduction2. Meaning of Unconventional Petroleum Geology3. Unconventional Petroleum Reservoirs4. Unconventional Petroleum Accumulation and Evaluation

Part II. Unconventional Petroleum Techniques5. Resource Assessment Methods for Unconventional Petroleum6. Experimental Analysis7. Geophysical Techniques8. Well Drilling and Completion Techniques

Part III. Unconventional Petroleum Miscellany9. Tight Oil and Gas10. Shale Oil and Gas11. CBM12. Heavy Oil and Bitumen13. Oil Shale14. Natural Gas Hydrate15. Other Unconventional Petroleum Resources