Prof. Dr. CAO Yingchang
Professor in Geology
Vice president of China University of Petroleum (East China)
PhD supervisor
Department of Geology
School of Geosciences
China University of Petroleum (East China)
Address: NO.66, Changjiang West Road, Huandao, Qingdao, 266580, China.
Email: caoych@upc.edu.cn
Web: https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E6%93%8D%E5%BA%94%E9%95%BF/7729728?fr=aladdin
Expertise Areas
•Sequence stratigraphy in lacustrine basin
•Sedimentology in lacustrine basin
•Petroleum reservoir geology
•Unconventional petroleum geology
Education
2009-09 to 2003-07 PhD in Geology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China
1995-09 to 1998-07 MSc in Geology, China University of Petroleum (Huadong), Dongying, China
1988-08 to 1992-07 BSc in Geology, China University of Petroleum (Huadong), Dongying, China
2005-10 to present China University of Petroleum (Huadong) , Qingdao , China
Professor (Geology)
2002-11 to 2005-10 University of Petroleum (East China), Dongying , China
Associate Professor (Geology)
1992-07 to 2002-10 University of Petroleum (East China), Dongying , China
Lecture (Geology)
Sequence stratigraphy
Sedimentology
Funding and Projects
2018-01 to 2021-12 National Natural Science Foundation of China, NO. U1762217
Title:The evolution and origin of the shale oil reservoir in lacustrine basin
2013-01 to 2016-12 National Natural Science Foundation of China, NO. U1262203
Title:Quantitative characterization of reservoir properties and its effectiveness evaluation in tight sandstone oil and gas reservoirs
2014-01 to 2018-12 National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), NO. 2014CB239000
Title:Dolomitization and tight oil reservoirs distribution in the saline lacustrine basin
2016-01 to 2020-12 National Science and Technology Special Grant, NO. 2016ZX05007
Title:Petroleum geology and evaluation of potential targets in the deeply-buried formations in the Bohai Bay Basin
2017-01 to 2021-12 Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, NO. XDA14010301
Title:The deep tectonic characteristics and evolution of the key areas in the Tarim Basin
Representative Publications
1. Yingchang Cao *, Yuan Guanghui, Li Xiaoyan, Wang Yanzhong, Xi Kelai, Wang Xiaoming, Jia Zhenzhen, Yang Tian. Characteristics and origin of abnormally high porosity zones in buried Paleogene clastic reservoirs in the Shengtuo area,Dongying Sag, East China. Petroleum Science, 2014, 11: 346-362.
2. Yingchang Cao *, Wang Yanzhong, Gluyas Jon, Liu Huinin, Liu Haining, Song Mingshui. Depositional model for lacustrine nearshore subaqueous fans in a rift basin as exemplified by the Eocene Shahejie Formation, Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China. Sedimentology, 2018, Accepted.
3. Guanghui Yuan, Yingchang Cao*, Jon Gluyas, Zhenzhen Jia. Reactive transport modeling of coupled feldspar dissolution and secondary mineral precipitation and its implication for diagenetic interaction in sandstones [J].Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017, 207:232-255.
4. Guanghui Yuan, Yingchang Cao*, Yongchao Zhang, Jon Gluyas. Diagenesis and reservoir quality of sandstones with ancient “deep” incursion of meteoric freshwater——An example in the Nanpu Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, East China [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017, 82: 444-464.
5. Jian Wang, Yingchang Cao*, Keyu Liu, Jie Liu, Muhammad Kashif. Identification of sedimentary-diagenetic facies and reservoir porosity and permeability prediction: An example from the Eocene beach-bar sandstone in the Dongying Depression, China [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017, 82: 69-84.
6. Benben Ma, Yingchang Cao*, Kenneth A. Eriksson, Yancong Jia, Benjamin C.Gill. Depositional and diagenetic controls on deeply-buried Eocene sublacustrine fan reservoirs in the Dongying Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China[J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017,82: 297-317.
7. Benben Ma, Yingchang Cao*, Kenneth A. Eriksson, Yancong Jia, Yanzhong Wang. Burial evolution of evaporites with implications for sublacustrine fan reservoir quality: A case study from the Eocene Es4x interval, Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin, China [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2016, 76: 98-114.
8. Jian Wang, Yingchang Cao*, Keyu Liu, Jie Liu, Xiujie Xue, Qisong Xu. Pore fluid evolution, distribution and water-rock interactions of carbonate cements in red-bed sandstone reservoirs in the Dongying Depression, China [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2016, 72: 279-294.
9. Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao*, Beyene Girma Haile, Rukai Zhu, Jens Jahren, Knut Bjørlykke, Xiangxiang Zhang, Helge Hellevang. How does the pore-throat size control the reservoir quality and oiliness of tight sandstones? The case of the Lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation in the southern Songliao Basin, China [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2016, 76: 1-15.
10. Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao*, Jens Jahren, Rukai Zhu, Knut Bjørlykke, Xiangxiang Zhang, Laixing Cai, Helge Hellevang. Quartz cement and its origin in tight sandstone reservoirs of the Cretaceous Quantou formation in the southern Songliao basin, China [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015, 66: 748-763.
11. Guanghui Yuan, Yingchang Cao*, Zhenzhen Jia, Jon Gluyas, TianYang, Yanzhong Wang, Kelai Xi. Selective dissolution of feldspars in the presence of carbonates: The way to generate secondary pores in buried sandstones by organic CO2 [J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2015, 60: 105-119. SCI.
12. Yuan Guanghui, Jon Gluyas, Cao Yingchang*, Norman H.Oxtoby, Zhenzhen Jia, Yanzhong Wang, Kelai Xi, Xiaoyan Li. Diagenesis and reservoir quality evolution of the Eocene sandstones in the northern Dongying Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, East China. Marine and Petroleum Geology [J], 2015, 62: 77-89. SCI.
13. Tian Yang, Yingchang Cao*, Henrik Friis, Keyu Liu, Yanzhong Wang, Lingli Zhou, Shaomin Zhang, Huina Zhang. Genesis and distribution pattern of carbonate cements in lacustrine deep-water gravity-flow sandstone reservoirs in the third member of the Shahejie Formation in the Dongying Sag, Jiyang Depression, Eastern China[J]. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 2017, online.
14. Guanghui Yuan, Yingchang Cao*, Longwei Qiu, Zhonghong Chen. Genetic mechanism of high-quality reservoirs in Permian tight fan delta conglomerates at the northwestern margin of the Junggar basin, northwestern China[J]. AAPG Bulletin, 2017, 101（12）：1995-2019.
15. Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao*, Rukai Zhu, Beyene Girma Haile, Helge Hellevang. Evidences of localized CO2-induced diagenesis in the Cretaceous Quantou Formation, southern Songliao Basin, China[J]. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, 2016,52: 155-174.
16. Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao*, Jens Jahren, Rukai Zhu, Knut Bjørlykke, Beyene GirmaHaile, Lijing Zheng, Helge Hellevang. Diagenesis and reservoir quality of the Lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation tight sandstones in the southern Songliao Basin, China[J]. Sedimentary Geology, 2015, 330,90-107.
17. Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao*, Yanzhong Wang, Beyene Girma Haile, Xiangxiang Zhang, Jianghua Zhang, Jiehua Jin. Diagenesis and porosity-permeability evolution of low permeability reservoirs: A case study of Jurassic Sangonghe Formation in Block 1, central Junggar Basin, NW China[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2015, 42(4): 475-485.
18.Kelai Xi, Yingchang Cao*, Keyu Liu, et al. Factors influencing oil saturation and exploration fairways in the lower Cretaceous Quantou Formation tight sandstones, southern Songliao Basin, China[J].Energy Exploration & Exploitation, 2018, accepted.
19. Jian Wang, Yingchang Cao*, Guoqi Song, Huimin Liu. Diagenetic evolution and formation mechanism of quality reservoirs under multiple diagenetic environmental constraints: an example from the Paleogene beach-bar sandstone reservoirs in the Dongying depression, Bohai Bay Basin [J]. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition), 2017, 91(1): 232-248.
20. Tian Yang, Yingchang Cao*, Yanzhong Wang. A New Discovery of the Early Cretaceous Supercritical Hyperpycnal Flow Deposits on Lingshan Island, East China [J]. Acta Geologica Sinica （English Edition）, 2017，91（2）：749-750.
2005-11, Second Prize of National Progress in Science and Technology, China
2012-11, First Prize of Shandong Province Progress in Science and Technology, China
Others
Associate editor of Marine and Petroleum Geology
Last update: March 20, 2018
