Founded in 1994, Special Oil & Gas Reservoirs is a national academic journal, which is supervised by the China National Petroleum Corporation and sponsored by the Liaohe Oil Field Company. The journal is publicly available both domestically and internationally. It is the only technical journal in China to publish the latest technology, theories and advances in the exploration and development of special oil and gas reservoirs. Its primary mission is to promote the technical progress of special oil and gas reservoirs and serve the oil fields.
Special oil and gas reservoirs refer to reservoirs with special types, special properties of oil and special types of traps, including low permeability reservoirs, lithologic reservoirs, Paleozoic buried hill reservoirs, fault block reservoirs, ultra-deep reservoirs, high pour point oil reservoirs, heavy oil and super heavy oil reservoirs, bitumen sand, coalbed methane, gas hydrate, etc.
The columns in the journal include Expert Forum, Argument, Summary, Geological Exploration, Reservoir Engineering (Experiment Research), Drilling and Production Engineering and others. The journal is published bimonthly.
Special Oil & Gas Reservoirs is indexed and abstracted in Abstracts Journal (AJ) of Russia, Science Abstracts (SA) of the UK, Petroleum Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, and Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) of the USA, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Core Journal Database, China Sci-tech journals (Compact Disc Edition), Abstract of China Petroleum, Wanfang Database and Chongqing VIP Database. It has been designed as Honorable Mention of CAJ-CD Norms Executive, and Honorable Mention of North China Journals, and it has won the first prize in the Excellent Journal Competition of Liaoning Province and other honors. In 2009 it was listed as one of the Key Magazine of China Technology, and one of China Core Academic Journal of RCCSE in 2011. In 2013 it was ranked third in the Journal Evaluation of the CNPC. It’s one of the journals which are the latest to start but the most improved among 36 journals of the CNPC.
With nearly 20 years of efforts, Special Oil & Gas Reservoirs has been rapidly developed. Currently, it has entered a new stage of development. It is hoped that experts, scholars, authors and readers both domestically and internationally will continue to support and care for the journal and help it get better with united efforts.
