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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (04): 1106-1113.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2020.094

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Structural Differences and Impacts on Hydrocarbon Accumulation in Hangzhou Slope of Xihu Sag

CUI Min(), XU Jianyong, GUO Gang, XIE Xiaojun, QI Peng, XIAO Xi, WANG Xin   

  1. CNOOC Research Institute Co., Ltd., Beijing 100028, China
  • Received:2020-03-26 Revised:2020-10-12 Online:2021-08-10 Published:2021-09-08

Abstract:

The Hangzhou slope is a frontier for oil and gas exploration in the Xihu sag. Structural characteristics are the basis for petroleum geological study. Based on the structures of the Hangzhou slope, the evolution of main controlling faults and their controls on hydrocarbon migration, we analyze the structural differences of slopes and their effects on hydrocarbon accumulation. The results show that the Hangzhou slope is divided into three parts: the northern, middle, and southern part. The strike direction of the faults in the middle section is NNE, and individual faults are small but numerous. There are E-dipping normal faults and W-dipping reverse faults. The Yingcuixuan main fault may have been active during the sedimentation of the Pinghu Formation, and the middle part of the Hangzhou slope had the strongest fault activity with maximum drop of 800 m, during the sedimentation of the lower part of the Pinghu Formation. The fault strike change, the sandstone content, and the lithological inversion around the main fault suggest that the sandbody is not well developed in the Yingcuixuan main fault’s upthrow wall in the middle part of the Hangzhou slope, whose sealing is better than that in the northern part. During the key accumulation periods (ca. 23 Ma and 12 Ma), the middle section of the Hangzhou slope was on the favorable oil and gas migration pathway. The middle part of Yingcuixuan main fault is inactive after 15 Ma, which enriches the oil and gas in the downthrow wall.

Key words: structural difference, fault evolution, hydrocarbon migration, Hangzhou slope, Xihu sag

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