Abstract: Total petroleum recoverable resources of China consists of discovered recoverable resources and undiscovered recoverable resources. The latter may be called future potential recoverable resources. A method of forecasting total petroleum recoverable resources and future potential recoverable resources is proposed in this paper,based on graphical method of reference [1] and Weibull model of reference [2]. By applying practically with China's data, the method proposed in this paper is effective. The forecasting results of China's total petroleum recoverable resource and future potential recoverable resources are 100×10⁸ t and 40.7×10⁸ t, respectively.

Key words: Forecast, petroleum, resource