至2050年前后，中国油气资源具有可持续发展的基础和潜力。经过60年的发展，我国从“贫油国”到油气生产大国，建成了24个油气生产基地，自主发展形成一系列中国特色的油气勘探开发理论与技术。我国油气地质条件十分复杂，这同时也孕育有广阔的勘探新区、新领域，待发现油气资源仍比较丰富，目前石油勘探刚进入中期阶段，天然气勘探尚处于早期阶段。同时，油气资源的进一步发展也面临诸多严峻挑战，经济快速发展油气需求缺口日益扩大，本土资源深入勘探开发的难度增大，勘探开发成本大幅上升，国际化经营拓展空间受多因素制约等。因此，必须始终加强油气勘探工作，一方面立足国内，坚持不懈开展新区新领域攻坚战，保持勘探工作量、储量、产量的稳定增长，采取多种方式，积极分享国际能源资源，引进和勘探利用国外石油和天然气；另一方面，还必须积极采取措施，全面推进节约用油用气战略，实现油气资源的可持续发展。

Until the middle of this century, Chinese oil&gas resources have great potential for sustainable development. Chinese petroleum industry has developed sixty years.Now it has been one of the greatest oil &gas producing country from a "oil-poor country"  , and built 24 large-scale oil and gas production bases. A series of theories and techniques have been setted up independently. It is known that the Chinese geological condition is very complex,which gave birth to all kinds of new areas, new strata and new conceptions for hydrocarbon exploration.The undiscovered resources are still relatively abundant,although a large amount of oil and gas resources have been found.The oil exploration is just in the medium term, and natural gas exploration is still in its early stage. At the same time, we are confronted with many stern challenges which lies in the further development, such as the rapid development of China's economy will enlarge oi & gas demand gap, the exploration will become more and more difficult,the costs of exploration and development are rising continuously,etc. Therefore, we must always strengthen oil & gas exploration work. On one hand,the exploration of domestic new area must be insisted on to keep stable growth of exploration, reserve and production. A variety of ways should to be taken actively to share international energy resources, introduce and explore foreign oil and gas. On the other hand, we must also actively take measures to fully promote the conservation strategy for oil & gas and try our best to achieve oil & gas resources' sustainable development.