Direction and Potential of Exploration for Natural Gas in Qaidam Basin

摘要

@@ Qaidam Basin is a large Meso-Cenozoic interior basin, which is surrounded by Qilianshan Mountains,Altun Mountains, and Kunlun Mountains, and with its geographical area, area of sedimentary rock, and maximal sedimentary thickness being 250 thousand km2, 121 thousand km2, and 17.2 thousand meters respectively. The natural gas resources is sufficiently abundant in the basin.It is estimated that the total oil and gas resources is 4.65 billion tons at present, of which natural gas resources is 2500 billion m3.