The Taklimakan Desert, in the center of the Tarim Basin, Northwest China, is near the arid center of the Eurasian Continent. It is an ideal place for carrying out research on circulation systems of ocean鄄continent and continent鄄 continent, as well as on the environmental effects of the Tibetan Plateau uplift. Oil and natural gas resources are rich in the desert hinterlands, where weather is extremely dry and the ecological environment is extremely frail. How to achieve sustainable development of oil gas energy exploitation and water resources will become a key issue of rapid and sustained energy development in the exploitation area. Since 2000, with the increase of oil and gas production, as well as construction of ecological engineering in oil field areas, regional water use, i. e., water consumption by oil exploitation, life鄄service water, and ecological engineering water has been increasing. Under this condition, the response of regional groundwater to water鄄use behavior, and sustainable use of groundwater under scaled development of future oil gas energy, is a focus of discussion in academic circles. All the water used for oil field production, living, and an ecological shelterbelt program in the Tarim oil field was supplied by 19 local water wells. The main groundwater was from surrounding snow cover and glacier
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