Abstract:Facing the energy shortage in the world, as a new field, shale gas gets the attention of the countries all over the world. Our country is rich in shale gas resources, many basins and regions has the geological conditions of mass accumulation of shale gas. Thus, the research on shale gas is very important. In this paper, shale gas resource reserves, distribution and facing problems in our country have been introduced, and geological characteristics have been summarized as well. On these basis, influencing factors of shale gas in our country have been studied. It is regarded that the shale gas of our country is mainly affected by the organic carbon content, maturity, degree of development of the crack and formation pressure. Shale gas and coal bed methane natural gas belong to the same unconventional gas. Its chemical speciation, genetic type, enrichment regularity are similar to coal bed methane gas, so a comparative study of shale gas and coal bed methane gas can be carried out.