摘要
China has a wide sea waters with their offshore continental shelf covering over 1 million km?.Rich oil-gas resources are lying under the sea waters.In accordance with the conventional international assessment method for oil and gas resources,it is expected that the gas reserve volume in China is approximately 14000 billion cu.m.Particularly,the Yinggehai Basin,Qiongdo-ngnan Basin and Zhushan Depression in the Pearl River Mouth basin of the South China Sea are rapidly subsiding basins with more than 100 million km2 of prospects for exploration,where the geological conditions are favourable for generation of rich natural gas.
