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Geoscience ›› 2018, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (05): 953-962.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2018.05.08

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Evolution Model for the Gas Reservoirs in the Shaximiao Formation, Eastern Slope of the Western Sichuan Depression

XU Min1,2,3(), LIU Jian1,2,3, LIN Xiaoyun1,2,3(), XIONG Shan4, NIU Binli4   

  1. 1. Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Unconventional Oil/Gas,Yangtze University,Wuhan,Hubei 430100,China
    2. Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources of the Ministry of Education,Yangtze University,Wuhan, Hubei 430100,China
    3. College of Geosciences,Yangtze University,Wuhan,Hubei 430100,China
    4. The First Exploitation Factory of Oil Production,Changqing Oilfield Company of CNPC,Yanan,Shaanxi 716000,China
  • Received:2018-01-20 Revised:2018-03-21 Online:2018-10-10 Published:2018-11-04

Abstract:

The Shaximiao Formation is the main gas-producing sequence in the eastern slope of the Western Sichuan Depression, and its trap type is dominantly tectonic-lithologic trap.Most of the gas reservoirs are composed of tight sandstones with well-developed faults and fractures, which effectively improved the physical properties of reservoirs. The coupling patterns of fault and sandstone and their tectonic evolution are of great importance to the hydrocarbon accumulation.Our analyses on the dynamic evolution,gas-water distribution characteristics and hydrocarbon formation sequence of the gas reservoirs in the Shaximiao Formation (and the integration with regional tectonic evolution and hydrocarbon accumulation periods) concluded that gas accumulation in the Shaximiao Formation was influenced by tectonic uplifts, fault-sandstone configurations,physical properties of reservoir and tectonic evolution.This formed the reservoiring evolution patterns that are of tectonic orientation-controlled, fault-reservoir migrating-controlled,reservoir accumulation-controlled and evolution modification-controlled.The control of paleostructures in the Gaomiaozi region is more pronounced, while the Zhongjiang region is dominated by lithologic-control.Gas reservoirs in the Shaximiao Formation are featured by the three Yanshanian episodic reservoiring, and the subsequent Himalayan modification.The multi-phase tectonic evolution and strong reservoir heterogeneity have influenced the gas saturation,leading to the widely different gas distributions and reservoir productivity in the Shaximiao Formation.

Key words: gas reservoir evolution model, accumulation dynamics, episodic reservoiring, gas reservoir, Shaximiao Formation, Western Sichuan Depression

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