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Guangyou Zhu is affiliated with China National Petroleum Corporation in China. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a significant focus on subfields such as Mechanics of Materials, Geophysics, Paleontology, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Geology.

Their main areas of study concentrate on hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis, paleontology and stratigraphy of fossils, geological and geochemical analysis, geochemistry and elemental analysis, petroleum processing and analysis, geological and geophysical studies, and geochemistry and geologic mapping.

The scientist has contributed to numerous peer-reviewed publications. Among the recent papers authored by Guangyou Zhu are:

  • Deepest oil in Asia: Characteristics of petroleum system in the Tarim basin, China (2020), published in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • Stability and cracking threshold depth of crude oil in 8000 m ultra-deep reservoir in the Tarim Basin (2020), published in Fuel
  • Evolution of the Cryogenian cratonic basins in China, paleo-oceanic environment and hydrocarbon generation mechanism of ancient source rocks, and exploration potential in 10,000 m-deep strata (2023), published in Earth-Science Reviews

Frequent coauthors of Guangyou Zhu include:

  • Zhiyao Zhang
  • Tingting Li
  • Kun Zhao
  • Jingfei Li
  • Zhiyong Chen

The scientist's work has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Marine and Petroleum Geology
  • Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering

Guangyou Zhu's research addresses critical aspects of petroleum systems, including ultra-deep reservoirs and the geological conditions influencing hydrocarbon generation. Their studies also touch on historical geochemical and paleontological changes relevant to hydrocarbon exploration.

Best Publications

  • Formation, distribution and potential of deep hydrocarbon resources in China

    Longde Sun;Caineng Zou;Rukai Zhu;Yunhui Zhang

  • Petroleum geology of the Puguang sour gas field in the Sichuan Basin, SW China

    Yongsheng Ma;Shuichang Zhang;Tonglou Guo;Guangyou Zhu

  • Geochemistry of Palaeozoic marine petroleum from the Tarim Basin, NW China: Part 3. Thermal cracking of liquid hydrocarbons and gas washing as the major mechanisms for deep gas condensate accumulations

    Shuichang Zhang;Shuichang Zhang;Jin Su;Jin Su;Xiaomei Wang;Xiaomei Wang;Guangyou Zhu;Guangyou Zhu

  • Giant gas discovery in the Precambrian deeply buried reservoirs in the Sichuan Basin, China: Implications for gas exploration in old cratonic basins

    Guangyou Zhu;Tongshan Wang;Zengye Xie;Banghua Xie

  • The effects of calcite and montmorillonite on oil cracking in confined pyrolysis experiments

    Changchun Pan;Lanlan Jiang;Jinzhong Liu;Shuichang Zhang

  • Discovery of the lower Cambrian high-quality source rocks and deep oil and gas exploration potential in the Tarim Basin, China

    Guangyou Zhu;Feiran Chen;Meng Wang;Zhiyao Zhang

  • Geochemistry and origin of sour gas accumulations in the northeastern Sichuan Basin, SW China

    Jian Li;Zengye Xie;Jinxing Dai;Shuichang Zhang

  • The occurrence of ultra-deep heavy oils in the Tabei Uplift of the Tarim Basin, NW China

    Guangyou Zhu;Shuichang Zhang;Jin Su;Haiping Huang;Haiping Huang

  • Alteration and multi-stage accumulation of oil and gas in the Ordovician of the Tabei Uplift, Tarim Basin, NW China: Implications for genetic origin of the diverse hydrocarbons

    Guangyou Zhu;Shuichang Zhang;Jin Su;Bin Zhang

  • The complexity, secondary geochemical process, genetic mechanism and distribution prediction of deep marine oil and gas in the Tarim Basin, China

    Guangyou Zhu;Zhiyao Zhang;Xiaoxiao Zhou;Tingting Li

  • Geochemical evidence for coal-derived hydrocarbons and their charge history in the Dabei Gas Field, Kuqa Thrust Belt, Tarim Basin, NW China

    Shuichang Zhang;Shuichang Zhang;Bin Zhang;Guangyou Zhu;Huitong Wang

  • Gas genetic type and origin of hydrogen sulfide in the Zhongba gas field of the western Sichuan Basin, China

    Guangyou Zhu;Shuichang Zhang;Haiping Huang;Haiping Huang;Yingbo Liang

  • Geochemistry of Paleozoic marine oils from the Tarim Basin, NW China. Part 4: Paleobiodegradation and oil charge mixing

    Shuichang Zhang;Shuichang Zhang;Haiping Huang;Haiping Huang;Jin Su;Jin Su;Guangyou Zhu;Guangyou Zhu

  • Ca. 850 Ma magmatic events in the Tarim Craton: Age, geochemistry and implications for assembly of Rodinia supercontinent

    Guanghui Wu;Yang Xiao;Bernard Bonin;Debo Ma

  • Non-cracked oil in ultra-deep high-temperature reservoirs in the Tarim basin, China

    Guangyou Zhu;Alexei V. Milkov;Feiran Chen;Na Weng

  • Deepest oil in Asia: Characteristics of petroleum system in the Tarim basin, China

    Guangyou Zhu;Alexei V. Milkov;Jingfei Li;Nan Xue

  • The effects of pyrobitumen on oil cracking in confined pyrolysis experiments

    Changchun Pan;Lanlan Jiang;Jinzhong Liu;Shuichang Zhang

  • Discrimination of abiogenic and biogenic alkane gases

    JinXing Dai;JinXing Dai;CaiNeng Zou;ShuiChang Zhang;Jian Li

  • The characteristics of Precambrian sedimentary basin and the distribution of deep source rock: A case study of Tarim Basin in Neoproterozoic and source rocks in Early Cambrian, Western China

    Lin Wu;Shuwei Guan;Rong Ren;Xiaobo Wang

  • Redox changes in the outer Yangtze Sea (South China) through the Hirnantian Glaciation and their implications for the end-Ordovician biocrisis

    Na Li;Chao Li;Thomas J. Algeo;Thomas J. Algeo;Meng Cheng

  • Geochemical Significance of Discovery in Cambrian Reservoirs at Well ZS1 of the Tarim Basin, Northwest China

    Guangyou Zhu;Haiping Huang;Haiping Huang;Huitong Wang

  • Isotopic evidence of TSR origin for natural gas bearing high H2S contents within the Feixianguan Formation of the northeastern Sichuan Basin, southwestern China

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Frequent Co-Authors

Shuichang Zhang
Shuichang Zhang China National Petroleum Corporation (China)
Haijun Yang
Haijun Yang China National Petroleum Corporation (China)
Jinxing Dai
Jinxing Dai China National Petroleum Corporation (China)
Haiping Huang
Haiping Huang University of Calgary
Keyu Liu
Keyu Liu China University of Petroleum, Beijing
Thomas J. Algeo
Thomas J. Algeo University of Cincinnati
Kai-Jun Zhang
Kai-Jun Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Alexei V. Milkov
Alexei V. Milkov Colorado School of Mines
Maowen Li
Maowen Li Geological Survey of Canada
Quan Shi
Quan Shi China University of Petroleum, Beijing

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