Abstract: Over the past 30 years, significant progress has been made in the oil-gas exploration and development of Jurassic low-pressure sandstone reservoirs, Permian tuff reservoirs, and Carboniferous volcanic weathering crust reservoirs in Santanghu Basin, with the proved geological reserves of 168 ×10⁸t and a production capacity of crude oil of 56×10⁴t/a. The remaining oil-gas resources in Santanghu Basin have great potentials, but the proved unused reserves are insufficient. It is necessary to expand new fields and implement new types of oil-gas exploration and development, so as to achieve new discoveries and breakthroughs, and support stable and sustainable oil-gas production. Based on the understandings from the recent research on basin structure, source rock distribution, reservoir characteristics, as well as coal rock experiment, four new fields are proposed, i.e., southern thrust belt, shale oil in subsag areas, megaclast reservoirs at the near-source margin, and interior reservoirs in Carboniferous volcanics, with the petroleum geological resources of 0.86×10⁸t, 2.45×10⁸t, 0.69×10⁸t and 0.96×10⁸t, respectively. Also, two new types are proposed, i.e., coalbed methane in Jurassic Xishanyao Formation and tar-rich coal in Badaowan Formation, with the coalbed methane resources of 1 427×10⁸m³ and tar resources of 60.1×10⁸t, respectively. There is great resource potentials and broad prospects for exploration and development. Based on the hydrocarbon exploration degrees, geological conditions, and development technologies, deployments and arrangements were made at three levels, i.e., strategic deployment, strategic breakthrough, and strategic preparation.