Jilin Oilfield is located in the southern Songliao basin of Songyuan district, Jilin province. Its exploration and development cover the southern Songliao basin and Yitong basin within Jilin province.

Its exploration begun in 1955. Since the discovery of its first oilfield – Fuyu oilfield as a result of the commercial oil flow found in well Fu 27 on 29th September, as of the end of Dec.1997, there had been 25 oilfields totally proven over 43 years such as Fuyu, Mutou, Xinmin, Xinmiao, Xinli, Xinbei, Qianan, Dalaoyefu, Shuangtuozi, Yikeshu, Sifangtuozi, Yingtai, Honggang, Daan, Daanbei, liangjia, Haituozi, Dafangshen, Sijiazi, Buhai, and Changchunmoliqing and so on, including two large oilfields with reserves over 100 million ton - Fuyu and Xinmin. In Jilin oilfield, an oil bearing area of 1384.3 km2 has been proven with a proven OOIP of 7.7189×108t and a gas-bearing area of 118.9 km2 proven with a proven OGIP of 98.51×108m3. The oil production capacity of 19 oilfields under development such as Fuyu has reached over 4 ×106t/a and the refining capacity reached 7×105 t/a . Jilin oilfield is ranked as No.9 among the Chinese oilfields.

During bringing into existence and development from small to large over 40 years, the yearly production of Jilin oilfield have been risen to over 4 ×106t from several dozen thousands t of a simple oilfield through arduous working, focused development and pioneering by several generations of oil workers. Jilin oilfield is distributed across three districts (Changchun, Songyuan and Baicheng ) and twenty cities or counties (areas). As a large state-owned petroleum enterprise group, it integrates oil & gas exploration and development, scientific research and design, construction, production service, diversified business and social service, making a greater contribution to the strategic goal of “Stabilizing east and developing west” as well as providing stimulation and support for local economic development.