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Hairuo Qing

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Professor, Ph.D., P.Geo.

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CW 234.6
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Research interests

  • Carbonate Geology and Geochemistry

Expertise and areas of study

Dr. Hairuo Qing's expertise is mainly in the field of characterization and modeling of carbonate reservoirs with respect to: 1) petrography and geochemistry of carbonate rocks, especially dolomitization and its control on reservoir development in the sedimentary basins; 2) development of effective exploration and production strategies, particularly related to the prediction of reservoir distribution and performance; and 3) evaluation of CO2 storage and sequestration using existing hydrocarbon reservoirs. I am also working on secular variation of isotopic composition of seawater in the geologic history and exploring the possible forcing mechanism for these changes; and reconstruction paleoclimate changes in geologic history based on the isotopic records from speleothems.

Dr. Qing is Editor in Chief of "Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology", Associate Editor of "Sedimentology", Editorial Board Member of "Petroleum" and "Journal of Palaeogeography", and has served as Guest Editor for "Minerals".

Courses taught

Geol 240 - Historic Geology

Geol 340 - Stratigraphy

Geol 416 - Carbonate Rocks

Geol 396 - Field Course I

Geol 870 - Recent Advances in Geochemistry

Geol 840 - Topics in Sedimentology

 

 

Selected publications since 2016:

  1. Ma, YS., MW. Li, H. Qing (eds)., 2026, Petroleum Geology and Exploration of Deep Marine Strata in China, 418pp. by Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-032-02495-4, ISBN 978-3-032-02496-1 (eBook). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02496-1
  2. Ma, YS., MW. Li, H. Qing., 2026, Preface: Petroleum Geology and Exploration of Deep Marine Strata in China, p.v-ix, by Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-032-02495-4, ISBN 978-3-032-02496-1 (eBook). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02496-1
  3. Lu S, Z Lu, F. Li, H. Qing, WZ Jiang, W Li, ZH Li, N Ye, B Zhu, Q Tang, HZ Qu, Y Xiao, SN Zhang, 2025. Depositional systems constraining the distribution of hydrothermal dolostone geobodies: A case study of Permian Guadalupian dolostone in the eastern Sichuan Basin. Sedimentary Geology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2025.106837
  4. Wei, D, ZQ Gao, KK Li, H Qing, ST Peng, RS Li, TL Fan, JB Wang. 2025. Deep hydrothermal dolomitization in a superimposed basin that experienced multiple tectonic-thermal events, AAPG Bulletin. DOI:10.1306/09172524080
  5. Wang, YZ, H. Qing, L. Li, YN. Fang, J. Cosford, DY. Chen, HN. Wu, and CD Wu. 2025. Lacustrine low-temperature dolomite of Oligocene, northern Tibetan Plateau, NW China: Insights from C-O-Mg isotope constraints. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 294 (2025) 106826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2025.106826
  6. Cao, Z., H Qing, K Azmy, L Zhang, ZP Li, SJ Zhu, CC Han, QL Wei, NX Yin, 2024. Diagenesis and Reservoir Evolution of Low Permeability Sandstones: A Case Study of the Second Member of the Jurassic Sangonghe Formation, Central Junggar Basin, China. Geological Journal, 2024; 0:1–21. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.5109
  7. Zheng, HF, FF Lu, YX Dong, B Liu, XF Zhang, KB Shi, JJ He, H. Qing, 2024. Magma-driven thermal convection dolomitization of the Lower-Middle Ordovician strata caused by Mg sourced from underlying Cambrian dolomites in the Tarim Basin, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology 163 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2024.106740
  8. Thomas, A.D. and H Qing. 2024. Reservoir characterization of the Ordovician Red River Formation in southeastern Saskatchewan: project announcement. Summary of Investigations 2024, Volume 1, Saskatchewan Geological Survey, Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources, Miscellaneous Report 2024-4.1, Paper A-2, 8p.
  9. Qing, H., Qiao, ZF., Zhang, SY., Cosford, J., Hu, AP., Liang, F., Wang, YS., and Zheng, JF. 2023. δ26Mg-δ13C-δ18O systems as geochemical tracers for dolomite recrystallization: a case study of Lower Ordovician dolomite from Tarim Basin. Chemical Geology. Volume 619, 5 March 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2023.121302
  10. Sun, TJ, XP Luo, WT Mi, A Woods, D Chiarella, H Qing, YS Ma, XL Kou, ZM Shen, GS Xu, HF Yuan, JJ Liang, FH Xui, H Wang, XX Gong, J Luo, TF Jin, XW Lv. 2023. Characterization of ultra-deeply buried middle Triassic Leikoupo marine carbonate petroleum system (!) in the Western Sichuan depression, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology 150 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106099
  11. Zheng, C, H Qing, C Chen, SJ Zhu, XY Lyu, K Azmy, ZJ Li, L Zhang, RH Liu, JG Xu, 2023. Genesis of Calcite Veins in 8# Coal Seam of the Upper Carboniferous Benxi Formation, Southeastern Margin of Ordos Basin. Minerals 2023, 13, 879. https://doi.org/10.3390/min13070879
  12. Qiao, ZF, JH Dong, Z Yu, WZ Li, XF Wang, L Jiang, H Qing, 2022. Diagenesis and Reservoir Evolution Model of the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Sichuan Basin: Evidence from Laser Ablation U-Pb Dating and In Situ Isotope Analysis. Minerals 2022, 12, 1372. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12111372
  13. Zhang, B, HG Wen, H Qing, K. Yang, Y. Luo, HY Yang, PW Wang, LF He, W. Xiao 2022. The influence of depositional and diagenetic processes on rock electrical properties: A case study of the Longmaxi shale in the Sichuan Basin. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2022.110119
  14. Feng MS, Meng WB, Zhang CG, Qing H, Chi G, Wang J, Peng YW, Wen GH, 2021, Geochronology and geochemistry of the ‘green-bean rock’ (GBR, a potassium-rich felsic tuff) in the western margin of the Yangtze platform , SW China: Significance for the Olenekian-Anisian boundary and the Paleo-Tethys tectonics. Lithos 382–383 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2020.105922.
  15. Wang, Y., Z. Shi, H. Qing, Y. Tian, X. Gong, X., 2021. Petrological characteristics, geochemical characteristics, and dolomite model of the lower Cambrian Longwangmiao Formation in the periphery of the Sichuan Basin, China. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. 2021, 202, 108432
  16. WANG, Y, Z. SHI, X MENG, P. LIU, Y. TIAN, H. QING. 2021. Burial dolomitization and mixed water Dolomitization in Longwangmiao Formation, Southeastern Sichuan Basin. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 2021, 39(6): 1517-1531. doi: 10.14027/j.issn.1000-0550.2021.065
  17. Guo C, Chen, DZ, Qing, H., Zhou, XQ, Ding, Y. 2020, Early dolomitization and recrystallization of the Lower-Middle Ordovician carbonates in western Tarim Basin (NW China), Marine and Petroleum Geology, v111, p332-349.
  18. Yang HJ, Wu GH, Scarselli N., Sun CH, Qing H, Han JF, and Zhang GW, 2020. Characterization of reservoirs, fluids, and productions from the Ordovician carbonate condensate field in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China. AAPG Bulletin, v.104, p.1567-1592.
  19. Gu, Y., Jiang, Y., Qing, H., Feng., L, Fu, Y., Jiang, C. 2020, Reservoir characteristics, pore structure, and main controlling factors of oolitic shoal reservoir in Feixianguan Formation: a case study from eastern Kaijiang-Liangping Trough. Arabian Journal of Geosciences, 13(8), 309. DOI:10.1007/s12517-020-05286-x
  20. Yang, MM., Zhao, FF., Liu, XF., Qing, H., Chi, G., Li XY., Duan, WJ., and Lai, CK., 2020, Contribution of magma mixing to the formation of porphyry-skarn mineralization in a post-collisional setting: The Machangqing Cu-Mo-(Au) deposit, Sanjiang tectonic belt, SW China, Ore Geology Reviews, v122, p.1-21.
  21. Yang, MM., Zhao, FF., Liu, XF., Qing, H., Raharimahefa, T., and Duan, WJ., 2020, Petrogenesis and geodynamic setting of granitoids at Machangqing Cu–Mo (Au) Deposit, Western Yangtze Craton, SW China: Constraints from Zircon U-Pb and Molybdenite Re-Os Geochronology, Lu-Hf isotope and Geochemistry, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
  22. Sun, TJ., Luo, XP., Qing, H., Kou, XL., Sheng, ZM., Xu, GS., and Zuo, YH., 2020, Characteristics and natural gas origin of Middle-Late Triassic marine source rocks of the Western Sichuan Depression, SW China, Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) , v.94(2), 376-398.
  23. Luo, XP., Sun, TJ., Qing, H., Shen, ZM., Gong, XM., Xian, ZY., and Cai, C., 2020, Characteristics of fluid inclusions and determination of hydrocarbon accumulation period of Caofeidian 18-1/2 buried hill reservoirs in Bozhong Depression, Bohai Bay Basin, Meteorological and Environmental Research, v11(2), p.65-67.
  24. Fu, SY., Zhang CG., Chen, HD., Qing, H., Chen, AQ., Zhao, JX., Su, ZT., and Hao, ZM., 2019, Geochemistry charactersistics and dolomitization mechanism of the Upper Cambrian dolomite, Eastern Ordos Basin, China, Geological Journal, v55, 3070-3082. https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3580
  25. Huang, H., Hou, MC., Qing, H., Zhou, L., Yang, JH., Du, YS., Tian, JC., Ni, SJ., and Xiong, FH., 2019, The contribution of the Emeishan large igneous province to the strontium isotope evolution of the Capitanian seawater, International Geology Review, v61(15), p.1927-1939
  26. Wu, GH., Xie, E., Zhang, YF., Qing, H., Luo, XS., and Sun, C., 2019, Structural diadenesis in Carbonated rocks as identified in fault Damage Zones in the Northern Tarim Basin, NW China, Minerals v9, p.2-15
  27. Ye, N., Zhang, SN., Qing, H., Li, YT., Huang, QY., and Liu, d., 2019, Dolomitization and it’s impact on porosity development and preservation in the deeply burial Lower Ordovician carbonate rocks of Tarim Basin, NW China, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, v182, 1-16
  28. Zheng, HF, Ma, YS, Chi, G., Qing, H., Liu, B., Zhang, XF., Shen, YC., Liu, JQ, Wang., YC, 2019, Stratigraphic and Structural Control on Hydrothermal Dolomitization in the Middle Permian Carbonates, Southwestern Sichuan Basin (China), Minerals, 9(1), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/min9010032
  29. He, JY, Qing, H, and Xu, B, 2018: The unconformity-related palaeokarst in the uppermost Ediacaran carbonate rocks in the northwestern Tarim Block, NW China: implication for sedimentary evolution during the Ediacaran–Cambrian transition, International Geology Review, p.1-14. DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2018.1474498
  30. Xiao, L., Zhao, G, and Qing., H., 2017, Depletion-induced stress change in a hydraulically bounded reservoir with multistage fractured horizontal wells. Journal of Natural Gas Science and Engineering. v.45 (2017), p.272-290
  31. Lu, ZY, Chen, HH., Qing, H., Chi., GX., Chen., QL., You, DH., Yin, H.,  and Zhang., SY. 2017. Petrography, fluid inclusion and isotope studies in Ordovician carbonate reservoirs in the Shunnan area, Tarim basin, NW China: Implications for the nature and timing of silicification. Sedimentary Geology, v359, p.29–43
  32. Dong, SF, Chen, DZ., Zhou, XQ, Qian, YX, Tian, M., and Qing., H., 2017, Tectonically driven dolomitization of Cambrian to Lower Ordovician carbonates of the Quruqtagh area, north-eastern flank of Tarim Basin, north-west China. Sedimentology, v.64, p.1079–1106.
  33. Wei, WW., Chen, DZ., Qing, H and Qian, YX., 2017. Hydrothermal dissolution of deeply buried Cambrian dolomite rocks and porosity generation: Integrated with geological studies and reactive transport modeling in the Tarim Basin, China. Geofluids, v.2017, Article ID 9562507, 19 pages, https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9562507
  34. Wen, HG, Luo, LC., Zheng RC., Qing H, Xu, WL, Li, Y, 2017: Occurrence of laminated dolomitic exhalative rocks in continental rift basins of northwest China. Research Advances
  35. Yang, CY and Qing, H., 2016. Possible occurrences of transition zones and residual oil zones below oil-water contact in mature oil fields, Southeast Saskatchewan, Canada. Interpretation, Vol. 4, No. 4 (November 2016); p. T591–T612.
  36. Guo, C., Chen, DZ, Qing, H., Dong, SF., Li., GR., Wang, D., Qian, YX., and Liu, CG., 2016, Multiple dolomitization and later hydrothermal alteration on Upper Cambrian – Lower Ordovician carbonates in the northern Tarim Basin, China. Marine and Petroleum Geology.
  37. Dong, SF, Chen, DZ, Zhou, XQ , Qian, YX, Tian, M.,  Qing, H., 2016, Tectonically-driven dolomitization of Cambrian to Lower Ordovician carbonates of the Quruqtagh area, north-eastern flank of Tarim Basin, north-west China. Sedimentology
  38. Liu, SG, Song, JM, Luo, P., Qing, H., et al., 2016, Characteristics of microbial carbonate reservoirs and its hydrocarbon exploring outlook in the Sichuan Basin, China, Journal of Chengdu University of Technology (Science and Technology Edition), v43, p.128-152