油气产量的提高,首先取决于储量的增长,这是公认的事实。油气作为一种自然资源,本身具有一定的分布规律。只有当人们遵循和认识到这种客观的规律性时,才有可能找到它,使之化为可供人们利用的物质财富。所以,一方面可以认为只要人们努力勘探,不断工作,总会有所发现,同时还有一个如何能用较短时间和较少投资以发现更多储量的经济效益问题。从哲学的观点讲,实践产生理论,但理论又能指导实践。石油地质理论经过百余年的实践总结,已经证明在勘探中具有重要的现实意义,只是由于它是非工艺性的学科,才使人们误解为似乎与勘探实际的关系不大。其实,可以举出许多国内外的实例,说明是否采用正确的理论指导,往往甚至关系到勘探的成败。 It is a well-established fact that the increase in oil and gas production depends, above all, on the increase in reserves. As a natural resource, oil and gas have certain distribution rules. It is only when people follow and recognize this objective regularity that it is possible to find it and turn it into a material asset for people to use. So, on the one hand, we can think that as long as people work hard to explore and keep working, there will always be some discoveries. At the same time, there is an economic issue of how to find more reserves in less time and with less investment. From a philosophical point of view, practice produces theory, but theory can guide practice. After more than one hundred years of practice, the theory of petroleum geology has proved to be of great practical significance in exploration, only because it is a non-technological discipline that makes people misunderstand it as if it has little to do with the actual exploration. In fact, we can cite many examples both at home and abroad, indicating whether or not the correct theoretical guidance is adopted and often even the success or failure of exploration.