Commercial production of unconventional oil and gas resources will be difficult to achieve without large-scale engineering measures, let alone the additional operating costs, increasingly stringent safety and environmental requirements, fluctuating low oil and gas prices, and so on, all of which will undermine investors' confidence. As a reason, unconventional techniques to steering the exploration and production of nontraditional oil and gas production are urgently required. As a conclusion, we proposed the notion of joint exploration and development, which involves combining search strategy and operational approaches for a variety of oil resources in order to analyze, develop, acquire, and utilize numerous hydrocarbon sources at the same time. In this method, the vexing interference between the created mixture of hydrocarbon flow, which results in a reduction in single-well flowrate, might be transformed into a dynamic mutual force that boosts the well's flowrate. The necessity of joint exploration and development is dictated by the occurrence circumstances of oil and gas resources, its practicality is dependent on technological advancements, and its laborious and long-term nature is linked to the existing energy market and environment, we also point out. Despite a number of issues and challenges, we believe that collaborative exploration and development will be a viable choice for lowering costs and increasing output and benefits, boosting investor confidence, increasing energy comprehensive use, and improving energy supply efficiency. Keywords: development oil and gas resources, analysis, energy comprehensive use