Prediction of developing trends of reservoir research

According to the situation of oil and gas exploration,nine developing trends in the research of reservoirs are presented,including: ①developing petroleum reservoir-forming dynamics of basins and enforcing the research on the relations of geothermal field,geopressure field and geostress field with the rules of hydrocarbon accumulation and distribution;②strengthening and deepening the research on the non-structural reservoirs,such as lithologic-stratigraphic reservoirs and hydrodynamic entrapment reservoirs;③studying on the carbonate sequence stratigraphy;④strengthening the research on the reservoir-forming rules of natural gas;⑤researching on the reservoir-forming mechanism of superimposed petroliferous basins in China;⑥paying attention to the research on the neotectonism and late hydrocarbon accumulation;⑦researching on the unconventional gas resources;⑧searching the inorganic-origin hydrocarbon reservoirs;⑨further researching on the basin modeling.The above aspects are the hot and hard points of present and future research works.The strengthen research will definitely improve the development of petroleum industry of China.