Abstract: Tarim plate experienced several evolutional stages in its history:plate divergence and intraplate subducting convergence from middle Preterozoic to early Paleozoic and intraplatefolding deformation from late Paleozoic to Triassic. As a result,three types of prototypebasins were formed in the margin and in the interior of the plate. The development of theseprototype basins,together with their superimposition and refashion in subsequent time steps,provided a bulky volume of oil-bearing formations and various conditions for oil entrapment.