生物礁相在碳酸盐油气田中占有极重要的地位。目前全世界已发现的8口万吨井中有4口在礁灰岩中。最著名的礁灰岩油田,有墨西哥的黄金巷油田和美国的二叠纪盆地,加拿大西部泥盆纪的生物礁等。墨西哥的黄金巷油田,位于墨西哥湾西部的坦皮科含油区,有三口万吨井(多斯波卡斯1井,日产11000—20000吨;彼特雷罗·德·拉诺4井,日产14000—15700吨;塞罗 Reef phase plays a very important role in carbonate oil and gas fields. Four of the eight 10,000-ton wells that have been discovered in the world are currently in reef limestone. The most famous reef limestone fields are the Yellow Valley Oilfield in Mexico and the Permian Basin in the United States and the Devonian Reef in western Canada. The Golden Lane oil field in Mexico, located in the Tampico oil-bearing area in the western Gulf of Mexico, has three 10,000-ton wells (Dobosic-1 well, 11,000 to 20,000 tonnes per day; Pitreolo de Rano 4, Nissan 14,000 -15700 tons; Cerro