人们很早就知道石油和天然气是一种具流动性的有机矿产，其有机性质提示人们它生成在什么地方，而流动性则向人们说明如何去寻找它们。但总结人类对油气分布规律认识的石油地质学却没有循着油气的这两种特性发展，而是走向了另一条与人类认识规律相符合的道路。人们对油气的认识先从它现在存在的地方开始，如早期在油气苗附近钻井找油；后来发现油气常沿一定构造线分布，特别是背斜说出现后，发现油气常存在于背斜之中，或者存在于某一种构造省中，如含油气省；再后来，人们才从含油气省中识别出了沉积盆地，认识到作为有机物质的烃类，只有沉积盆地才是最适合它们生成的地方。这是人类认识的一次大飞跃，但油气的流动性在其成藏过程中起着何种作用，从中可以建立何种原理，并如何利用它以寻找油气，却一直未找到合适途径。因而，勘探工作进入盆地只是说明找到了油气生成的地方，而如何找油，还须进一步探讨。 It has long been known that oil and gas are a kind of liquid organic mineral, whose organic properties tell people where it is generated, and mobility tells people how to look for them. However, the petroleum geology that summed up human understanding of the law of oil and gas distribution has not followed these two characteristics of oil and gas development, but has moved to another path that is consistent with the law of human cognition. People began to understand oil and gas from its existing place first, such as early oil and gas drilling near the oil wells; later discovered that oil and gas are often distributed along certain tectonic lines, especially when the anticline is said to have found that oil and gas often exist in the anticline Or in some tectonic province, such as hydrocarbon-bearing provinces. Later, people recognized the sedimentary basins from the hydrocarbon-bearing provinces and realized that only hydrocarbons that are organic matter are the most suitable for sedimentary basins Generated place. This is a great leap forward in human knowledge. However, the role of oil and gas mobility in the process of its formation, the principles from which it can be established, and how it can be used to find oil and gas has never been found. Therefore, the exploration work into the basin only shows where the oil and gas found, and how to find oil, the need for further exploration.