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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (04): 1114-1123.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.042

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Low-amplitude Structures and Its Control on Hydrocarbon Enrichment and Accumulation: An Example from Yan’an Formation in Pengyang Area, Ordos Basin

ZHENG Dengyan1,2(), WANG Zhenliang1,2(), WANG Lianguo3, HUANG Hao3   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory for Continental Dynamics, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
    2. Department of Geology, Northwest University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710069, China
    3. No.11 Oil Production Plant, Changqing Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Qingyang, Gansu 745000, China
  • Received:2021-01-05 Revised:2021-03-05 Online:2021-08-10 Published:2021-09-08
  • Contact: WANG Zhenliang

Abstract:

Low-amplitude structures are widely developed at Pengyang. As Pengyang is distal from the source rock, the oil had undergone long-distance vertical and lateral migration, and the relations between structures and oil accumulation is unclear. Considering the geological and tectonic characteristics and based on sizable drilling and production data, we studied the low-amplitude structures of Yan 9 oil layer at Pengyang and its controlling effect on hydrocarbon enrichment and accumulation. The results show that low-amplitude structures at Pengyang are widely developed, dominated by nose-like structures. Low-amplitude structures with >18 m structural amplitude and >2.8 km2 closed area likely caused effective oil-water heterogeneity, and provided desirable traps for hydrocarbon accumulation. Accumulation of the study area is controlled by paleogeomorphology and can be divided into two types, i.e.slope mouth and fluvial ancient highland slope accumulation. The low-amplitude structures located in the dominant paleogeomorphology accumulation area could facilitate large-scale accumulation, and comprise 10 structural units. As they are in different locations and restricted by different accumulation factors, their hydrocarbon accumulation controlling factors are different. The (1) to (5) structural units in the north are located near the hydrocarbon generation center in the Jurassic paleogeomorphology-dominant accumulation area, with the oil enrichment mainly controlled by the structures. The degree of oil enrichment increases with increasing structural amplitude and closed area. The (6) to (10) structural units in the southwest are not in the Jurassic paleogeomorphology-dominant accumulation area, and low-amplitude structures are necessary for hydrocarbon accumulation (rather than being a main controlling factor). There is no clear correlation between the scale of low-amplitude structures and the degree of oil enrichment.

Key words: Pengyang area, Yan 9 oil layer, low-amplitude structure, structural units, oil enrichment and accumulation, controlling effect

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