Abstract: By the end of Year 2000, 17 natural gas pools have been proved totally in Junggar basin, with proved accumulative gas in place of 57.59x10⁸m³ . The results of geological study and gas resources evaluation show that there still has been more potential for exploration. This paper proposed strategy for gas exploration, based on resource distribution and exploration status. They are:①to take more efforts of exploration of middle-shallow strata in order to maintain continuous growth of gas resources;②to make a breakthrough in deep macro-structures to find out large-scaled gas fields.③to conduct non-conventional evaluation of the gas resources in order to make an arrangement for gas resources succeeding project in strategy. The corresponding countermeasures are given to strengthen studies of seismic prospecting and sedimentary facies, to improve recognition capability of subtle traps; for in-depth study of gas reservoir formed to higher exploration success ratio; and to carry out preliminary research of gas resource exploration.

Key words: Junggar basin, natural gas resource, exploration, strategy, dicision