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Volcanic rocks are a series of products formed by volcanism. They are very different
from sedimentary rocks in terms of formation conditions, development environments, and
distribution rules Since the 1960s when volcanic reservoirs were discovered in hydrocarbon-
bearing basins across China, scientists conducted a massive amount of research on various
aspects of volcanic reservoirs, including rock characteristics, lithofacies combinations,
development environments, reservoir space, reservoir capacity, and con-trolling factors.
During the research, however, problems suchas chaotic classification and naming, and
conceptual ambiguity, for example, were introduced into the literature, because the
researchers had different research purposes and objects, they chose different systems of
volcanic reservoir classification. This resulted in issues such as the same name having
different meanings, different names having the same meaning, and so on. Thus, correlating
volcanic rocks acrossregions and communicating with the fundamental geologic research
community were difficult. Unification of volcanic rock classification and naming is a challenge
that urgently needs to be resolved. We must establish a set of volcanic reservoir concepts
based on the unified rock and lithofacies classification and naming system in volcanic geologic
research, by emphasizing the operability and practicability in lithology and lithofacies study on
volcanic reservoirs in hydrocarbon bearing basins, and by focusing on the relationship
between lithofacies and the reservoirs physical properties. At the same time, two
requirements must be satisfied simultaneously, i.e. the practicability of hydrocarbon
exploration, and communications in the fundamental research field