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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (04): 1087-1094.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.185

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Review of the High Natural Gamma Sandstones Associated With Source Rocks in the Chang 73 Submember of the Yanchang Formation, Ordos Basin

ZHENG Qinghua1(), LIU Xingjun2, ZHANG Xiaolong3, WANG Hongjun3, LIAO Yongle3, AN Erliang3, LIU Tao3, ZHANG Jianna3, ZUO Qin3   

  1. 1. School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering,Yulin University, Yulin,Shaanxi 719000, China
    2. Changqing Division, China Petroleum Well Logging Limited Company, Xi’an,Shaanxi 710201, China
    3. No.5 Oil Production Plant, PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi’an,Shaanxi 710201, China
  • Received:2021-07-15 Revised:2021-11-09 Online:2022-08-10 Published:2022-09-09

Abstract:

For the high natural gamma sandstones associated with source rocks in the large-scale Chang 73 submember of the Triassic Yanchang Formation in the Ordos Basin, they had long been identified as high-quality source rocks (e.g. oil shales) from conventional well log profiles (e.g.natural gamma ray well logs). Based on core observation, and integrated analyses of well logging, logging, the electron microprobe and numerous actual production data of shale oil, a preliminary research about the definition was proposed. The genesis of these high natural gamma sandstones associated with source rocks in the Chang 73 submember was discussed, along with the correlation between its development and testing effect of shale oil of the Chang 7 Member. We suggest that they are narrow and broad types can be divided in the Chang 73 submember in the Ordos Basin, and that their highly radioactive genesis maybe related to deep hydrothermal sedimentation. It is newly found that there is a close correlation between their development and testing effect of shale oil of the Chang 7 member. This study has important theoretical and practical significance for the large-scale and efficient exploration and development of shale oil in the Chang 7 Member in the Ordos Basin.

Key words: high natural gamma sandstones associated with source rocks, shale oil, source rock, Chang 73 submember, Ordos Basin

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