Jia Chengzao, the CCP member, was born in Lanzhou, Gansu province, in 1948. He is the member of Academic Committee of State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation of Southwest Petroleum University. Graduated from Regional Geology and Mineral Survey of Geology Institute, Xinjiang Technical College, in 1975. He was studying in Geology Institute of Nanjing University from September in 1980 to February in 1987, and finally won the Master and Doctor degrees of Structural Geology and Geophysics. He was engaged in Geology Research on Tarim Basin from 1989 to 2000, was in EXXON Oil Company of America as a visiting scholar from 1996 to 1997, was geologist of PetroChina Company Limited and president of China National Petroleum Corporation from 2000 to 2004, was elected academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is now the vice president of PetroChina Company Limited.
Academician Jia Chengzao worked on oil and gas reservoir exploration and research in Tarim Basin for a long time, consummately carried on multi-disciplinary comprehensive research on oil and gas geology and structural geology of Tarim Basin, achieving series of significant development. He discovered and proved the biggest national high quality gas field Kela Gas Field 2 through his decision and organization, laying a resource foundation for West-East Gas Transmission and establishment of Tarim Gas Region, making important contribution to accelerated development of the national gas industry and the west development. He carried on multi-disciplinary multi-level and multi-direction comprehensive research on Tarim Basin, the biggest national basin: finding out the internal structure of the basin and conforming the basin style. He proposed the conception of Basin Group of Northern Tethys Tectonic Zone margin and their Rich Gas, pointing out that the basin group form Karakum basin in middle asia eastwardly to Tarim basin and Qaidam basin is a unified big gas region, which powerfully guided the exploration of depression gas in Kuche with the discovery of Kela Gas Field 2, and summarized and established the theory of ultra-high pressure gas field in foreland thrust belt for the first time in the world, making significant contribution on enriching the theory of oil and gas. In recent years, he devoted to research on petroleum exploration in China, proposed the Four-theories of onshore oil and gas exploration, including foreland thrust belt, lithologic stratigraphic oil and gas reservoir, the mature areas and the new areas, greatly developing and enriching the petroleum exploration of China, forcefully guided the onshore petroleum exploration of China in recent years, with large quantities of exploration achievement.
