The journal of Oil and Gas Geology was founded in 1980. Its objectives are to record the significant achievements in the scientific research of petroleum geology, reflect the academic foreland in this field, promote academic exchanges at home and abroad, and upgrade the scientific research of petroleum geology. Its main columns include expert forum, petroleum geology, exploration and development, technology and methods, as well as the reports on the major achievements of petroleum exploration in China. The readers are the researchers engaged in petroleum geology and the teachers and students in the universities and colleges.The journal once won the Third Prize of National Excellent Science & Technology Periodicals in 1996, and was selected as One Hundred Key Journals of the Third National Journal Prize in 2005. It was rated the Chinese Competitive Sci-tech Periodicals in 2008 and 2011. Now, the journal is on the list of the fixed recorded periodicals of the core version of Chinese Science Citation Database(CSCD), Chinese Core Periodicals Particular Overview by Peking University(GCJC) and more than 20 well-known data bases and retrieval systems. In 2013, it is recorded in Engineering Information (EI) of The United States.