1 Second Oil production factory of the Xinjiang oilfield branch company, Karamay 834008,Xinjiang
2 School of Geophysics andOil Resources of Yangtze University, Key Laboratory of Exploration Technologies for Oil and Gas Resources (Yangtze University), Jingzhou, 434023 Hubei Province
3 School of Earth Science of Yangtze University, Jingzhou 434023, Hubei
Based on rock cores, thin sections, and so on, combining many modern technologies, such as the EMI image logging technique ,etc., Authors identified that the Lower Urho Formation of the Upper Permian is the fluival-dominated fan delta facies in the Karamay Oilfield, Xinjiang. There are two subfacies: the fan delta plain and fan delta front subfacies, but have no the pro-fan delta, in which the former consists of the braided branch microfacies, unconcentrated flow microfacies, mud flow microfacies and sieve deposit microfacies; the latter includes subaqueous branch microfacies, subaqueous interdistributary microfacies, debris flow microfacies, subaqueous natural barrier microfacies and grain flow microfacies. Meantime, it indicates the resource directions are not coincident in the 5 stages of Urho by analysizing the maps of Image Logging, composition and grain size of rocksin the Urho Formation, which behaves that the direction varied from the South-West to the North-West from early to late(the fifth stage to the first stage). Corresponding with the resource direction, the sedimentary facies changed regularlly. This paper subtly anatomizes the permian sedimentary microfacies characteristics, distribution and evolution by detailly studying the sedimentary facies of the lower Urho formation in the Karamay oil field.
About author: Zhu Shuiqiao, born in 1963, was graduated from Jianghan Petroleum University in 1983, and obtained Ph.D.Degree from Chengdu University of Technology. Now he is the director and a senior engineer of the Second Oil production factory of the Xinjiang oilfield branch company, and is engaged in oilfield geology.
Cite this article:
. Fluival-dominated fan delta deposits of the Lower Urho Formation of the Upper Permian in the 8th Area of Karamay Oilfield, XinJiang[J]. JOURNAL OF PALAEOGEOGRAPHY, 2005, 7(4): 471-482.
. Fluival-dominated fan delta deposits of the Lower Urho Formation of the Upper Permian in the 8th Area of Karamay Oilfield, XinJiang[J]. JOPC, 2005, 7(4): 471-482.