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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (04): 1052-1064.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.195

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Diagenesis of Triassic Shale and Its Influence on Reservoir in East Kunlun, Northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

CHAO Haide1,2(), CHEN Jianzhou1,2, WANG Jin1,2, LI Jiqing1, WANG Guocang3, ZHAO Hongyue1, CAI Tingjun1, LIU Libo1, LI Shengfu1, REN Wenkai1, QIU Liang4   

  1. 1. The Fourth Geological Exploration Institute of Qinghai Province, Xining,Qinghai 810029, China
    2. Key Laboratory of Shale Gas Resources of Qinghai Province, Xining,Qinghai 810029, China
    3. Northwest Institute of Ecological Environment and Resources of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou,Gansu 730000, China
    4. School of Earth Sciences and Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
  • Received:2022-01-05 Revised:2022-02-20 Online:2022-08-10 Published:2022-09-09

Abstract:

As a typical area to study shale gas reservoir characteristics in the east Kunlun (northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau), the research on shale diagenesis for the reservoir properties is inadequate with limiting its exploration potential. Based on petrographic observation and experimental analyses including thin section microscopy, cast thin section, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD), we studied the Triassic shale diagenesis and its impact on reservoir characteristics. The results show six types of Babaoshan Formation shale diagenesis: compaction, cementation, clay mineral transformation, metasomatism, dissolution, and thermal maturation of organic matter. Based on indicators such as organic matter maturity, rock pyrolysis peaks, smectite ratio in illite-montmorillonite mixed layer, clay mineral assemblage and pore type, we concluded that the studied shale is in the middle diagenetic stage B-late diagenetic stage. Combined with the influence of diagenetic on reservoir, compaction, cementation and clay mineral transformation can readily reduce porosity, dissolution and thermal maturation of organic matter can increase up porosity, while metasomatism has little effect on porosity.

Key words: east Kunlun, Triassic system, diagenesis, influencing factors on reservoirs

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