Abstract: The fault-controlled carbonate area in the northern depression of the Tarim Basin possesses abundant oil and gas resources.Identifying the oil-water contact (OWC) of fault-controlled tabular reservoirs is critical for their effective exploitation.However, OWC identification through drilling is costly and challenging.In contrast, it is efficient to identify the OWC using geophysical methods.This study proposed a time-frequency analysis method based on generalized S-transform.As revealed by the joint analysis of extensive time-frequency analysis results of through-well seismic channels and production performance analysis data, the depth/time-varying main frequency of seismic data is positively correlated with the oil layer thickness.Hence, this study proposed to identify the OWC using the abnormal inflection point of the energy envelope of seismic channel time-frequency gather.Experimental results demonstrate that oil layer thickness results obtained are uncertain, generally reliable, and reliable in the case of oil column height (OCH)< 120 m, 120 m≤OCH≤250 m, and OCH≥250 m, respectively.The method proposed in this study was applied to a fault fracture zone of an area of the Fuman oilfield, obtaining the main predicted oil layer thicknesses between 200 m and 520 m, aligning with the actual exploitation results.Therefore, the method of this study can be employed to guide exploitation.