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Advances in Geosciences 地球科学前沿, 2014, 4, 29-35 /10.12677/ag.2014.41005 Published Online February 2014 (/journal/ag.html) Philosophical Thinking of Petroleum Generation Xingzhou Chen1, Zenyan Chen2, Junsheng Li3 1China University of Petroleum, Beijing 2Department of Exploration Project Management, Liaohe Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Panjin 3Poly Technologies Inc., Beijing Email: lhlijsh@126.com Received: Nov. 20th, 2013; revised: Dec. 29th, 2013; accepted: Jan. 13th, 2014 Copyright ? 2014 Xingzhou Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. In accordance of the Creative Commons Attribution License all Copyrights ? 2014 are reserved for Hans and the owner of the intellectual property Xingzhou Chen et al. All Copyright ? 2014 are guarded by law and by Hans as a guardian. Abstract: This paper puts forward an argument of generating new hydrocarbon resources by heating up source rock based on investigations and researches on theories of hydrocarbon generation, the real cases of exploration and devel- opment, as well as the trend of technical development. Practices in oil and gas exploration and development through years have demonstrated that a huge amount of good hydrocarbon source rocks exist in the formations; the modern theory of hydrocarbon generation believes that the process of kerogen degradation and hydrocarbon generation involves two factors, temperature and time, which are complementary, i.e. if the temperature is very high, it is possible to gener-