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MARINE AND PETROLEUM GEOLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 974-989Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2008.05.003
Keywords
Gas; Entrapment; Diagenesis; Tight sandstones; Seal
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- China National Major Science [2003CB214608]
- Chinese Ministry of Education, and Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina [EEL2008-7]
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The Ordos Basin is a large cratonic basin with an area of 250,000 km(2) in central China. Upper Paleozoic coals and shales serve as gas source rocks with peak generation and migration at the end of the early Cretaceous. Recent exploration has verified the huge gas potential in the basin-centered gas accumulation system (BCGAS). However, the mechanism for the gas accumulation is controversial. With an integrated approach of thin-section petrography, ultra-violet fluorescence microscopy, fluid inclusion microthermometry, Raman microspectrometry, scanning electron microscopy, and X-ray diffractometry, we identified diagenetic trapping and evaluated the diagenetic history of sandstone reservoirs in the Yulin Gas Field in the central area, where structural, stratigraphic and/or sedimentary lithologic traps have not been found. It was revealed that three phases of diagenesis and hydrocarbon charging occurred, respectively, in the late Triassic, late Jurassic and at the end of the early Cretaceous. In the first two phases, acidic water entered the reservoir and caused dissolution and cementation, resulting in porosity increase. However, further subsidence and diagenesis, including compaction and cementation, markedly reduced the pore space. At the end of the early Cretaceous, the bulk of the gas migrated into the tight reservoirs, and the BCGAS trap was formed. In the updip portion of this system, cementation continued to occur due to low gas saturation and has provided effective seals to retain gas for a longer period of time than water block in the BCGAS. The mechanism for the gas entrapment was changed from water block by capillary pressure in the BCGAS to diagenetic sealing. The diagenetic seals in the updip portion of the sand body were formed after gas charging, which indicates that there is a large hydrocarbon exploration potential at the basin-centered area. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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