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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (02): 357-366.

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Analysis of Burial History and Thermal History in Yubei Area, Tarim Basin

NI Bin1,2(), TANG Liangjie1,2(), GUO Ying1,2,3, YU Tengxiao4, YUE Yong4   

  1. 1. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249,China
    2. Basin and Reservoir Research Center,China University of Petroleum,Beijing 102249,China
    3. Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Linyi University, Linyi,Shandong 276000,China
    4. Northwest Oilfield Company,SINOPEC,Urumqi,Xinjiang 830011,China
  • Received:2016-10-10 Revised:2016-11-17 Online:2017-04-10 Published:2017-04-25

Abstract:

According to strata division data and the palaeo heat flow analysis, the authors simulated and analyzed the burial and thermal histories of 5 representative drillings in Yubei area, Tarim Basin. In this way, the thermal evolution and maturation processes of source rock are discussed and the mature stages of hydrocarbon source rock and hydrocarbon generation period are pointed out preliminarily in the study area. The research results show that the study area experienced several cycles of sedimentary burial, uplift and erosion during the deposition of Cambrian to Devonian. After the sedimentation of Devonian, Carboniferous-Permian layers show characteristics of sedimentary burial.In the Mesozoic, a few Triassic layers, having been eroded in the eastern of Yubei area, appeared sedimentary discontinuity in the central and western regions. In the Cenozoic, the strata deposited continuously and the deposition rate presented an increasing trend. In the study area, after the Cambrian hydrocarbon source rock had deposited, the maturity evolution appears relatively successive. Cambrian source rock came into the oil-generating window in the Ordovician, and the time of the hydrocarbon generation is early. In the Silurian-Devonian, influenced by the Early Hercynian, the strata underwent the uplift and erosion, and the evolution of the source rock was slow. With the stable sedimentary and the active volcano widely in Carboniferous-Permian, the source rock entered into the high mature stage. Because of the remote effect of the Himalaya Orogeny, with the area subsiding and very thick sediments deposited in the Cenozoic, the source rock reached the over-mature stage, where the gas gets generated.

Key words: Yubei area, source rock, burial history, thermal history, Ro, basin modeling

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