Historically, the exploration for oil and gas resources has focused on identifying structural and stratigraphic traps associated with conventional accumulations. The importance of source rocks was also recognized to understand their generative potential and the timing of hydrocarbon expulsion relative to the formation of those traps. In the past 20 yr, since unconventional resources started being developed economically, geoscientists have devoted a great deal of research and gained tremendous insights on hydrocarbon storage and flow capacity of source rocks as reservoirs. Horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing technology that was initially developed in those shale plays are now being applied...

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作为水库的载体床

历史上，油气资源勘探的重点是识别与常规油气藏相关的构造和地层圈闭。还认识到烃源岩的重要性，以了解它们的生成潜力和与这些圈闭形成相关的碳氢化合物排出时间。近20年来，非常规资源开始经济开发，地球科学家对烃源岩作为储层的油气储量和流动能力进行了大量的研究，并获得了大量的见解。最初在这些页岩区开发的水平钻井和多级水力压裂技术现在正在应用......