Abstract:Underground brine in Shandong province mainly distributed in Bohai Sea and Jiaozhou Bay coastal areas. The total distribution areas are about 3003.11km2, total static reserves (333+334)is about 807734.3m3, and total recoverable amount is about 28721.9m3/a. Exploitation of brine resources mainly concentrated in south bank of Laizhou Bay, such as Shouguang city, Hanting district, Changyi city, Laizhou city, and the Yellow River Delta as Zhanhua county, Dongying district and Guangrao county. Development and utilization are shallow brine resources buried within 100m. It is mainly used for extracting salt and bromine. Brine extraction amount is about 31697.9×104m3 in 2008. Due to the different levels of brine exploitation, overexploitation areas have been formed in some areas, and formed groundwater depression cone. Using exploitation potentiality coefficient method, brine resources distribution area have been divided into potentiality area, balanced area and over exploited area.