Abstract:

This paper combined some related contents of “International Workshop on Sequence Stratigraphy”, and described the progress of the theory and technical methods about sequence stratigraphy. It outlined some significant researches and applications on both conventional and unconventional petroleum exploration of the siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy (including marine , lacustrine, and fluvial facies etc.), carbonate sequence stratigraphy, coal and other sediments sequence stratigraphy and standardization of sequence stratigraphy. In the end, we point out that the future trend of sequence stratigraphy is the standardization of research methods and the specilization in application areas, with emphasis on the research on deepwater sequence , carbonate sequence and sequence modeling.

Key words: sequence stratigraphy, petroleum exploration, siliciclastic sequence stratigraphy, carbonate sequence stratigraphy, systems tract