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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (05): 1382-1390.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.052

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Geochemical Characteristics and Genesis of Oil and Gas in the Lishuixi Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin

ZHANG Yingzhao(), HU Senqing, LIU Jinshui, JIANG Yiming, CHEN Zhongyun, QIN Jun, DIAO Hui, WANG Chao   

  1. Shanghai Branch of CNOOC Ltd., Shanghai 200335, China
  • Received:2021-05-21 Revised:2022-05-01 Online:2022-10-10 Published:2022-11-03

Abstract:

The genesis and source of gas and condensate oil of Lishuixi sag in the western East China Sea Shelf Basin remain disputed for many years. Based on geochemical and drill well analyses and seismic exploration, the oil and gas genesis, source and exploration direction of L36 gas-field in the Lishuixi sag are reviewed with comprehensive research ideas and methods of natural gas geochemistry and oil and gas accumulation. The study shows that the natural gas in L36 gas-field is the product of “condensate-wet gas zone” evolution stage, and that the natural gas maturity Ro is no less than 1.1%. The carbon isotope composition of natural gas and the carbon isotope comparison with typical oil-type gas in China offshore revealed that the natural gas in L36 gas field is oil-type, with the estimated natural gas maturity Ro=1.12%-1.14%, which was originated from lower Paleocene lacustrine Yueguifeng Formation source rocks in the sag, which enriched the genetic types and sources of natural gas in the East China Sea basin. The C7 light hydrocarbons of condensate oil produced in L36 gas-field are dominated by methylcyclohexane, significantly different from the C7 light hydrocarbon composition of condensate oil from the lacustrine source rock. The lower Paleocene shallow marine Lingfeng Formation source rocks are characterized by < 1 sterane C2720R/C2920R, no C304-methylsterane and low Gamma wax content. This indicates that the condensate oil of L36 gas-field is from the Lingfeng Formation source rocks. It is confirmed that in addition to the Yueguifeng Formation source rocks, the Lingfeng Formation source rocks were also developed in the Lishuixi sag. The next natural gas exploration direction in the Lishuixi sag may include: (1) lithologic traps in the structural background of fault anticline and fault nose across the sag center; (2) Xianqiao structural belt. This provides theoretical guidance for the exploration of new hydrocarbon resource in the sag.

Key words: genesis, Yueguifeng Formation, lacustrine source rock, Lingfeng Formation, shallow marine source rock, Lishuixi sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin

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