Research Areas

Sedimentology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Reservoir Geology

Research Projects

[1] National Natural Science Foundation of China: Control mechanism of tectonic-source supply on heterogeneous current sedimentation in the lake phase fault basin: A case study of Shahejie Formation in Dongying Depression (41872113). 2019.01-2022.12, Chair


[2] PetroChina Strategic Cooperation Science and Technology Special Project: Tight Oil-Shale Oil Reservoir Genesis and Dessert Prediction in Ordos Basin, 2020.01-2024.12, responsible for the topic


[3] National Major Oil and Gas Project: Comprehensive Geological Evaluation Method and Application of Multi-type Deepwater Storage Collective (2017ZX05009-002-005), 2017-2020, sub-project in charge


[4] National Oil and Gas Major Special Project: Study on Fluid Dynamics and Reservoir Formation and Oil and Gas Enrichment Law in the DeepWater Region of the Northern South China Sea (2016ZX05026-007), 2016-2020, responsible for the project


[5] PetroChina Jidong Oilfield Branch: Research on the Spread and Favorable Reservoir Characteristics of Medium and Deep Sedimentary Systems in Nanbao No. 1 and No. 4, 2020.8-2021.11, PI


[6] PetroChina Xinjiang Oilfield Branch: Physics Simulation and Application of Diagenesis in Complex Reservoirs in Junggar Basin, 2020.08-2021.12, PI

Publications

[1] Benzhong Xian*, Yanxin He, Jianping Liu, Huapeng Niu. Identification of hydrovolcanisms and its significance for hydrocarbon reservoir: A review. Journal of Paleogeography, 2018, 7（4）：1-17.

[2] Wang, Z., Xian, B. *, Ma. L.,Chao, C, Pu, Q., Mapping sediment-dispersal characteristics of Neogene deltas using seismic Geomorphology, Liaodongdong Area, Bohai Bay Basin, China. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects. 2018, 2265-2276.

[3] Wang, J., Jiang, Z. *, Xian, B., Chen, J., Wang, X., & Xu, W., et al. A method to define the palaeowind strength from lacustrine parameters. Sedimentology. 2018, 65(2), 461–491 SCI, IF= 3.069 (2016), JCR(Q1) DOI: 10.1111/sed.12388

[4] Benzhong Xian*, Junhui Wang, Jianping Liu, Yu Yin, Chuzhi Chao. Classification and sedimentary characteristics of lacustrine hyperpycnal channels: Triassic outcrops in the south Ordos Basin, central China. Sedimentary Geology. 2018，368, 68-82. .SCI, IF= 2.373 (2016), JCR(Q1) DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.01.003

[5] Benzhong Xian*, Jianping Liu, Junhui Wang, Dong Yanlei, Yuzhi Li, Qi Yan, Yali Liu. Using of stratal slicing in delineating delta-turbidite systems in Eocene Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin: Insights for the evolution of multi-source delta-turbidite systems in a fourth order sequence, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 2018, 168: 495-506. SCI, IF= 1.873 (2017), JCR(Q1) doi: 10.1016/j.petrol.2018.05.043.

[6] Benzhong Xian*, Junhui Wang, Jianping Liu, Yanlei Dong, Chenglin Gong, Zhiyong Lu. Delta–fed Turbidites in a Lacustrine Rift Basin: The Eocene Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, East China. Journal of Australian Earth Science, 2018. 65(1): 135-151. SCI, IF= 1.198 (2017), JCR(Q3) DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2018.1401558

[7] Jianping Liu, Benzhong Xian*, Junhui Wang, Youliang Ji, Zhiyong Lu, Saijun Liu. Sedimentary architecture of a sub-lacustrine debris fan: Eocene Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, east China. Sedimentary Geology, 2017, 362(12): 66-82. SCI, IF= 2.373 (2016), JCR(Q1)

[7] Benzhong Xian *, Jianping Liu, Yanlei Dong, Zhiyong Lu, Yanxin He, Junhui Wang. Classification and facies sequence model of subaqueous debris flows. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA English Edition, 2017, 91(2), 751-752. SCI, IF= 1.708 (2017). JCR(Q3)

[8] Zhang, J., Jiang, Z., Gierlowski-Kordesch, E., Xian, B., Li, Z., & Wang, S., et al. (2017). A double-cycle lake basin formed in extensional to transtensional setting: the paleogene nanpu sag, bohai bay basin, china.Sedimentary Geology, 349, 15-32.