The AAPG Super Basin Initiative creates an action plan to help geoscientists revisit the world’s most productive petroleum basins by providing resources through conferences, online presentations, and publications like this special issue of the AAPG Bulletin. Understanding super basins better enables us to apply technologies that can reveal each unique super basin’s full resource development potential. By studying the world’s most significant petroleum super basins, we document concepts to find and produce hydrocarbons more economically in all basins.Between 2000 and 2015, game-changing technologies reinvigorated many of the world’s greatest onshore and offshore basins. Workflows that caused production peaks to reach new heights included horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in unconventional onshore reservoirs and enhanced seismic imaging in conventional offshore reservoirs. Improved understanding of source rocks, petroleum systems, oil habitats, stratigraphy, rock properties, and clinoform architecture enhances the exploration and development toolkit. Reduced costs, improved processes, and multidisciplinary teams created a new golden age in many super basins.Super basin thinking forms a new paradigm useful in directing actions. Super basins foster technology advancement because they possess key geologic factors and a basin-level economy of scale that fuels innovation. New concepts and techniques and methodologies developed in super basins benefit the entire ecosystem of hydrocarbon recovery. As geoscientists, global thinking improves our ability to provide abundant and affordable energy choices and, when done correctly, can also benefit economies and our environment. Super basins, geoscientists, and AAPG play vital roles in this noble effort.

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超级盆地思想：探索和振兴世界上最大的石油盆地的方法

AAPG超级盆地计划制定了一项行动计划，以通过会议，在线演示和诸如AAPG特刊这样的出版物提供资源，来帮助地球科学家重新访问世界上生产力最高的石油盆地。更好地了解超级盆地，使我们能够运用能够揭示每个独特超级盆地的全部资源开发潜力的技术。通过研究世界上最重要的石油超级盆地，我们记录了在所有盆地中更经济地发现和生产碳氢化合物的概念.2000年至2015年之间，改变游戏规则的技术为世界上许多最大的陆上和海上盆地注入了活力。导致生产高峰达到新高度的工作流程包括非常规陆上储层的水平钻井和水力压裂，以及常规海上储层的增强地震成像。对烃源岩，石油系统，石油生境，地层学，岩石性质和斜形构造的了解得到了增强，从而增强了勘探和开发工具包。降低成本，改进流程和跨学科团队在许多超级流域创造了新的黄金时代。超级流域思维形成了指导行动的新范式。超级盆地具有关键的地质因素和盆地水平的规模经济，可以推动技术进步，从而推动创新。超级盆地中开发的新概念，新技术和新方法使整个油气开采生态系统受益。作为地球科学家，全球思维提高了我们提供丰富且负担得起的能源选择的能力，并且如果做得正确，还可以使经济和环境受益。超级盆地，地球科学家和AAPG在这项崇高的努力中发挥着至关重要的作用。