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Geoscience ›› 2022, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (06): 1574-1584.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2022.225

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Characteristics of Temporal-spatial Distribution of Fault Conduit for Hydrocarbon Migration within the Hanliu-1 Fault in Gaoyou Sag

CHEN Xingyue1,2(), LI Heyong3, SUN Simin1,2, CAO Yijun1,2, XU Zhehang1,2, ZOU Huayao1,2()   

  1. 1. College of Geosciences,China University of Petroleum(Beijing),Beijing 102249,China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249,China
    3. Exploration and Development Research Institute of Jiangsu Oilfield Company, SINOPEC, Yangzhou,Jiangsu 225009, China
  • Received:2022-09-10 Revised:2022-10-20 Online:2022-12-10 Published:2023-01-11
  • Contact: ZOU Huayao

Abstract:

The Hanliu-1 fault is located on the northern border of deeply subsided area in Gaoyou sag, Subei Basin. In order to distinguish the temporal-spatial distribution of the fault conduit, fault activity rate (FAR), fault-plane geometry of the Hanliu-1 fault have been carried out for the two crucial periods of hydrocarbon migration. It is indicated that the Hanliu-1 fault was intensively active with FAR >25 m/Ma and its fault-plane geometry was featured with three obvious convex and two concave fault components during the deposition of the Sanduo Formation. Therefore, the Hanliu-1 fault was opening and three conduits occurred along the three convex fault components during this period. Since the deposition of the Yancheng Formation, the fault activity has decreased in FAR <10 m/Ma and the fault conduits have been getting closing. In conclusion, spatially, the fault conduit often occurs along convex fault component, and temporally, the fault conduit was opening as FAR >25 m/Ma and closing as FAR <10 m/Ma. As to hydrocarbon accumulation in Gaoyou sag, when the fault conduit was opening, oil migrated upwards to fill the roll-over anticline trap, and when closing, oil expelled from source rock charged immediately into the fault trap without vertical migration along the fault.

Key words: fault conduit, fault activity rate, fault-plane geometry, Hanliu-1 fault, Gaoyou sag

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