新疆煤层气资源量7.5万亿m³(2000 m以浅)，已施工煤层气井450口，年产气量达到0.8亿m³，新疆维吾尔自治区提出了2025年实现煤层气产量25亿m³的目标，煤层气大规模高效开发成为紧迫的重大需求。从煤层气富集模式与选区技术、“甜点”预测探测技术、加速滚动开发与快速增储上产策略、地质适配性开发技术、煤层气与煤炭、油气协同开发技术5个关键技术领域，系统梳理了新疆煤层气勘探开发已取得的主要研究进展，分析提出了可能突破方向。研究表明：新疆煤储层具有多−厚煤层普遍、低阶煤发育、急倾斜煤层多见、煤体变形与构造控制显著、水文条件和露头条件复杂，和三“低”(含气量低、甲烷体积分数低、含气饱和度低)五“高”(高含气强度、高孔隙度、高地应力变化、高储层压力变化、高渗透率变化)的含气性及物性等煤层气地质独特性；煤层气成因与富集模式具有多样性，包括生物成因气、热成因气或生物−热复合成因及其相应富集模式，生物成因气藏或生物成因气贡献普遍；煤层气分布赋存规律呈现前陆盆地、山间盆地显著差异性；创新形成基于“两”分开(浅部与深部，低阶煤与中高阶煤)“两”结合(地质评价与工程评价，多元数据)的科学评价与基于“机器学习+三维地质建模”的精准选区技术是第1个突破方向。深部煤层气/煤系气“甜点”发育区域主要为盆内坳陷的凸起、盆内隆起的凹陷、盆缘斜坡，高产井位多为构造高点，发育层位为割理裂隙发育的原生结构煤层或孔裂隙发育的煤系砂砾岩储层；基于“地球物理+岩石物理+岩石力学地层新方法”和”地质甜点+工程甜点新理念”的深部煤层气/煤系气“甜点”预测探测技术是第2个突破方向。低风险、短周期、高效率、多批次工程部署是加速滚动开发的基本原则；中浅部煤层气快速增储上产技术策略是在优选新区块布井建井、对老区块煤层气井进行增产改造；深部煤层气快速增储上产技术策略是在大型盆地缓坡深部和盆内凸起“甜点”区优先部署开发；科学加速滚动开发与高效快速增储上产的工程部署方法与技术策略是第3个突破方向。在井网井型差异性优化部署、低储层伤害钻井固井、高可靠性录井测井试井、多井型高效分段压裂、低套压−控压排采管控等工程技术取得重要进展；发展构建新疆煤层气大规模高效勘探开发地质适配性技术体系是第4个突破方向。开展先采气后采煤、煤层气与煤共采、煤层气与原位富油煤共采，推动中浅部煤层气与煤炭协同勘探开发；开展煤系叠合型气藏开发、煤层气与煤系气共探共采、煤系全油气系统勘探开发，推动深部煤层气与油气协同勘探开发，已有关注和探索；煤层气与煤、油气共探共采是第5个突破方向。成果试图为新疆煤层气大规模高效勘探开发提供技术支持和工程决策参考。

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has presented the expected resource conditions and work foundations for a large-scale coalbed methane (CBM) exploration and development, which shows that its CBM resources below the depth of 2000 m are 7.5 trillion m³, 450 CBM wells have been constructed, and the annual gas production has approached to 80 million m³. Xinjiang has put forward the goal of the annual CBM production of 2.5 billion m³ in 2025. Therefore, the large-scale and efficient development of CBM in Xinjiang has become an urgent and significant demand. In this paper, the main research progresses of Xinjiang CBM made in five key technical fields have been systematically summarized, including the CBM enrichment model and area optimization technology, the prediction and detection technology for sweet spot distribution, the technological strategy of the accelerated rolling development and rapid increase of reserves and productions, the geological adaptation technology system, and the cooperative exploration and development of CBM with coal, oil and gas. Then, the potential breakthrough directions have been analyzed and proposed. Research has shown that the coal reservoirs in Xinjiang show the unique geological characteristics of CBM, including widely developed multi-thick coal seams, low rank coal development, the frequent occurrence of steep coal seams, the significant deformation and structural control of coal bodies, complex hydrologic and outcrop conditions, and the gas-bearing and physical properties with three “low” (low gas content, methane concentration, and gas saturation) and five “high” (high gas intensity, porosity, stress change, reservoir pressure change, and permeability change). The Xinjiang CBM has multiple genetic types and enrichment models, including biogenic mechanism, thermogenic mechanism, and biogenic-thermogenic composite genetic mechanism, etc., and their corresponding enrichment models. Biogenic gas reservoirs or biogenic gas contribute widely. The distribution and occurrence patterns of CBM in Xinjiang show some significant differences between foreland basin and intermountain basin. Therefore, the first breakthrough direction is to innovate and form the scientific evaluation based on the principle of “two separation” (low-rank and middle- and high-rank; shallow and deep coal) and “two combination” (geological and engineering evaluation; multivariate data) and the precise target optimization technology based on “machine learning + three-dimensional geological modeling”. The sweet spot of deep CBM/CMG (coal measure gas) in Xinjiang is mainly the uplift of the depression in the basin, the depression of the uplift in the basin, and the slope around the basin margin. The potential well location is the structurally high position, and the potential reservoir is the fissure-developed primary structure coal seam or pore and fissure-developed coal bearing sand conglomerate reservoir. Then, the second breakthrough direction is the sweet spot prediction and exploration technology for deep CBM/CMG based on “new method of geophysics, rock physics and rock mechanics stratigraphy” and “new concept of geological and engineering sweet spot”. The basic principles of the accelerated rolling development are low-risk, short-cycle, high-efficiency, and multi-batch project deployment. The technical strategies of the rapid increase of CBM reserves and productions in the middle and shallow coal seams include the new well layout and construction in the new optimized block and the old well reconstruction for the increase of CBM production in the mature block. While this strategy for the deep coal seam is to give priority to deployment and development in the sweet spot in the deep but gentle slope in the large basin and the uplift in the basin. Then, the third breakthrough direction is the engineering deployment methods and technical strategies for the scientific accelerated rolling development, and efficient and rapid increase of the gas reserves and productions. The important progresses have been made in the engineering technologies of Xinjiang CBM, such as the differential optimization and deployment of the well type and pattern, the drilling and cementing with a low reservoir damage, the high reliability logging and well testing, the efficient staged fracturing with the multi-well types, and the drainage control with the low casing pressure and controlled pressure. The fourth breakthrough direction is to develop and construct a geological adaptability technology system for a large-scale and efficient exploration and development of CBM in Xinjiang. For the middle and shallow CBM and coal cooperative exploration and development, the gas extraction followed by coal mining, the co-extraction of CBM and coal, and the co-extraction of CBM and in-situ oil-rich coal should be conducted. For the deep CBM, oil, and gas cooperative exploration and development, the development of coal measure superimposed gas reservoir, the co-exploration and co-extraction of CBM and CMG, and the exploration and development of the whole petroleum system in coal-bearing sequence should be conducted. These cooperative exploration and development of deep CBM, oil, and gas is the fifth breakthrough direction, whose developments have been considered and explored. The results of this study are expected to provide the technical support and engineering decision reference for a large-scale and efficient exploration and development of CBM in Xinjiang.