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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (05): 1046-1058.

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Reservoir Characteristics and Distribution Rule of Weathering Volcanic Crust: A Case Study of the Carboniferous Volcanic Rock in Zhongguai Uplift, NW Junggar Basin

FAN Cunhui1,2,3(), WU Qiang4, DENG Yusen4, LI Hu1,5, HAN Yutian5   

  1. 1. School of Geoscience and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu,Sichuan 610500,China
    2. Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources(China University of Geosciences), Ministry of Education,Wuhan,Hubei 430074, China
    3. Sichuan Key Laboratory of Natural Gas Geology, Chengdu,Sichuan 610500, China
    4. Shixi Oilfield Operation District, Xinjiang Oilfield Company, Karamay,Xinjiang 834000, China
    5. Tarim Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Korla,Xinjiang 841000, China
  • Received:2017-03-12 Revised:2017-06-20 Online:2017-10-10 Published:2017-11-06

Abstract:

Weathering volcanic crust reservoir has become an important and new field of oil and gas exploration, its characteristics and distribution rule are of great important theoretical and practical significance to the oil and gas exploration in volcanic rocks. Through comprehensive research of well drilling, cores, logs, seismic and laboratory analyses, weathering volcanic crust reservoir characteristics and distribution rule have been comprehensively studied from the volcanic rock formation environment in Zhongguai uplift, Junggar Basin. The result shows that volcanic rocks formed in the island-arc environment, and lithology is mainly andesite and tuff. The weathering crust structure of volcanic rocks can be divided into four layers: weathered clay layer, strong weathered zone, weak weathered zone and dense non weathered zone. The strongly weathered zone is the best of the four-layer structures, which is the main reservoir development zone. Reserving space mostly contains secondary pores and fractures, and the fracture has a better effect on reservoir seepage capacity. The development of reservoir is affected by lithology and lithofacies, tectonic movement, weathering and leaching, and fault(fracture). Carboniferous system volcanic oil-gas is mainly distributed along the three zones(close to fault zone, structural high part zone, beneficial lithofacies development zone), one side(near the plane of unconformity).

Key words: weathering crust reservoir, Carboniferous volcanic, Zhongguai uplift, Junggar Basin

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