Sinopec released the top ten oil and gas exploration discoveries in 2022

On December 30, Sinopec released the top ten oil and gas exploration results
in 2022.
Over the past year, Sinopec has continued to increase its oil and gas exploration efforts, and has achieved the results of the top ten oil and gas exploration and discovery, with 202 million tons of new proven oil reserves and 278.
6 billion cubic meters of proven natural gas reserves throughout the year, exceeding the annual targets and tasks of the seven-year action plan and demonstrating new achievements
in ensuring national energy security.

Achievement 1: A major breakthrough has been made in oil and gas exploration in the new area of Shunbei Oil and Gas Field in Tarim Basin

The base of Shunbei oil and gas field in Tarim Basin has become the first oil and gas project named after "deep earth engineering" in China, and is known as "deep land No.
1"
.
19 wells in the Shunbei No.
4 and No.
8 fault zones received 1,000 tons of high-yield oil streams, with new proven oil and gas reserves of 57.
6 million tons and 122.
6 billion cubic meters, and oil and gas control reserves of 40.
26 million tons and 217.
2 billion cubic meters, efficiently implementing two oil and gas enrichment areas with resources exceeding 100 million tons; The Shunbei 21 inclined well between the main trunk faults in the Shunbei area obtained a daily oil and gas equivalent of 1242 tons, and the Shunshen 1 inclined well obtained a high-yield oil flow midway test, and the overall resource position of more than one billion tons was further implemented
.

Achievement 2: Major breakthrough was made in the exploration of Shenglijiyang Shale Oil National Demonstration Zone in the Bohai Bay Basin

Shengli Jiyang Shale Oil National Demonstration Zone was officially inaugurated, becoming China's first tertiary continental fault basin shale oil national demonstration area
.
Risk exploration was carried out in five depressions in Boxing, Bonan, Niuzhuang, Minfeng and Lijin, and new types of new strata were discovered, 14 specialized horizontal wells tested more than 100 tons of high-yield oil flow, 7 wells produced more than 10,000 tons of accumulated oil, 3.
2 billion tons of shale oil resources in favorable areas were realized, and 1.
15 billion
tons of new "control + forecast" reserves were added.

Achievement 3: A major breakthrough has been made in the exploration of new stratigraphic systems in the shale oil new area in the Subei Basin

Deepened the study of the enrichment law of mixed shale oil with medium to low organic matter abundance and medium evolution, and successively obtained high-yield oil flow in the second section of Huapage 1HF well, HF well on the Huashan 2nd side and Huapage 3HF well in Gaoyou depression, and obtained 113 tons of oil per day in the new formation of Fu II section of Qinxian 2 well in Qintong sag, with a new predicted shale oil reserve of 110 million tons, and a shale oil resource of 1.
48 billion tons in Fu 2 section, showing a good exploration prospect
of low-abundance shale oil in the eastern small and medium-sized basins.

Achievement 4: A major breakthrough was made in the exploration of deep shale gas in the complex structural area of the southeast margin of the Sichuan Basin

Strengthen the theoretical and technical research of deep shale gas exploration, and many deep shale gas wells such as Xinshai 1 well, Ding Shale 7 well, and East Shale Shen 2 well have successively obtained a daily gas output of more than 400,000 cubic meters, discovered the Qijiang shale gas field, and added 145.
9 billion cubic meters of proven shale gas reserves and 119.
6 billion cubic meters of predicted reserves, confirming the large-scale gas enrichment in the complex structural area of the southeast Sichuan basin.
The preliminary evaluation of shale gas resources of 1.
2 trillion cubic meters in the shallow favorable area of 5,000 meters is expected to form Sinopec's second trillion cubic meter shale gas resource position after Fuling shale gas field
.

Achievement 5: Major breakthroughs have been made in the exploration of Permian and Triassic ultra-deep oil in the central Junggar Basin

Deepening the understanding of the law of quasi-middle and deep Permian and Triassic oil and gas enrichment, 10 wells and 6 wells in the new stratum were tested with industrial oil streams, with new predicted oil and gas reserves of 23.
36 million tons and 25.
3 billion cubic meters, and the implementation of regional oil and gas resources of 1.
1 billion tons and 100 billion cubic meters, revealing that the near-source ultra-deep has the conditions for large-scale enrichment of integrated reservoirs, which is expected to cultivate and form a new strategic succession position
.

Achievement 6: A major breakthrough was made in the exploration of new types of shale gas in the Cambrian Xiaozhusi Formation in the Sichuan Basin

Innovative exploration ideas, from the early black shale to find shale gas, to the gas measurement showed good silty shale exploration, Jinshi 103HF well in the Jinyan-Qianwei exploration area to obtain a daily production of 258,000 cubic meters of gas in the Cambrian Xiaozhusi Formation, the evaluation of favorable area shale gas resources of 387.
8 billion cubic meters, the first to achieve a major breakthrough in the exploration of new types of Cambrian shale gas in China, leading the scale exploration and development of shale gas from the Silurian Longmaxi Formation to the new Cambrian system
.

Outcome 7: Major breakthroughs have been made in the exploration of new types of natural gas in the sea area

Change the exploration thinking, innovate and establish the mode of early fault wealth control and late adjustment of oil and gas enrichment, actively explore favorable tectonic-lithological traps, and test the daily output of natural gas exceeding one million cubic meters in the exploration wells deployed in the sea area, and the realized resources of 164.
4 billion cubic meters, it is expected to build a new 100 billion cubic meter atmospheric field
in the sea area.

Achievement 8: A major breakthrough was made in Permian natural gas exploration in the southeast Sichuan Basin

Strengthen the study of Lower Permian sedimentation, karst and paleofault in the multi-row tectonic area in southeast Sichuan, and obtain 37,000 cubic meters of daily gas in the Maokou Formation of the first exploration of the first well in the chestnut area, and 64,000 cubic meters and 315,000 cubic meters of gas per day in the Qixia Formation and Maokou Formation of Fubao 1, respectively, with a new predicted reserve of 75.
7 billion cubic meters of natural gas, and a natural gas resource of 640 billion cubic meters
in the favorable area.

Achievement 9: A major breakthrough was made in the exploration of lacustrine carbonate rock oil in the Qianjiang sag of the Qianjiang Depression in the Jianghan Basin

Based on the re-evaluation of oil-rich depression sedimentation, reservoir and reservoir formation, a new understanding of the reservoir development of carbonate favorable facies zone was innovatively proposed, and in the reserve blank zone with high exploration degree, the multi-layer system of the Qianjiang Formation of Guang 86 incline, Zhong Xie 711, Huang 20-inclined 4, Huang 20-inclined 10 and other wells was tested to obtain industrial oil flow, and the predicted oil reserves of 12 million tons were implemented, and the oil resources in the favorable zone were evaluated to be 160 million tons
.

Achievement 10: Major breakthroughs were made in oil exploration in the Dongpu Sag New Area of the Bohai Bay Basin

Deepening the research on the resource potential of the oil-rich sag with low exploration degree, breaking through the inherent understanding of unfavorable early hydrocarbon generation and undeveloped reservoirs in the southwest depression of Dongpu sag, the second section of He 301 Jingsha obtained a high-yield oil flow with a new predicted oil reserve of 13.
58 million tons; In the blank area of proven reserves in the third section of the Pucheng tectonic belt sand, the Pu-156, Pu-158, Pu-161 and other wells have tested industrial oil streams in the third section of Sha, and the new oil control reserves are 7 million tons
.