全球石油系统研究——纪念翁文波《世界油田的分布规律》发表50周年

On Global Petroleum System

当年翁文波研究世界油田分布规律,目的是证明中国境内应该有丰富的油气资源。半个世纪过去了,他的判断得到了证实。以全球板块构造学说为基础,用L.B.Magoon所提出的石油系统概念和研究方法,把全球含油气盆地的资料整合后,可以按古生界、中生界和新生界含油气层系的分布状况寻找其规律,可以用它们之间分布的关系,以及它们和地壳上7个陆核的关系,分成为3种组合类型:中国型、北方型(含亚洲、欧洲和北美洲3区)和南方型(含澳洲-印度、非洲-阿拉伯半岛和南美洲3区)。3型各有特点,而7个区则称为含油气域。代是最大的时间尺度,也可以用纪、世进行系统地研究,探讨其演化规律。

Since commencing the study of the world's oil-gas distribution launched by Dr. Weng Wen-bo for the purpose of proving the fact that there should exist abundant oil-gas resources within mainland of China, half century has past, and Weng's judgement has been proved and realized nowadays. On the basis of global plate tectonics, the petroleum system concept and its studying methods proposed by L. B. Magoon are applied to deal with the data from hydrocarbon-bearing basins around the world. And study shows that the global petroleum or reserves distribution could be searched for in terms of Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic hydrocarbon-bearing system distribution status, distribution relations among them, including their relations to seven nucleuses on continental crust. It is concluded that the global petroleum system could be divided into such three types or seven domains as China Type, North Global Type (including Asia, Europe and North America) and South Global Type (including Australia-India, Africa-Arabia and South America) with diversity of features. When approaching their evolutions, the maximum time-rock unit, Era (Erathem), and other Period and Epoch can be adopted for systematic studies.