Quantitative research on porosity evolution of reservoirs in the Member 4 of Paleogene Shahejie Formation in Hexiwu structural zone of Langgu sag, Jizhong Depression
Cao Yingchang1, Xi Kelai1, Wang Yanzhong1, Zhou Lei1, Zhao Xianzheng2,Jin Fengming2, Cui Zhouqi2, Yang Chunyu3, Dong Xiongying2
1 School of Geosciences, China University of Petroleum(East China), Qingdao266580, Shandong
2 Huabei Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Renqiu062552, Hebei
3 Daqing Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Daqing163453, Heilongjiang
Based on methods of rock thin section identification, fluid inclusion uniform temperature test, burial history and organic matter thermal history analysis, gypsum bed dehydration and clay mineral transformation analysis, it was shown that reservoirs in the Member 4 of the Shahejie Formation in Hexiwu structural zone had experienced alkaline→acidic→alkaline→weak acidic→weak alkaline diagenetic environment during their evolution process. Moreover, the diagenetic evolution sequences were compaction→feldspar dissolution and/or secondary enlargement of the quartz→carbonate cementation and/or anhydrite cementation→little carbonate cement dissolution→little pyrite cementation. According to the principle of inversion and back-stripping, the authors calculated each of the key diagenetic contributions on reservoir plane porosity quantitatively on the basis of casting thin sections with different diagenetic characteristics in the study area. Furthermore, the actural porosity was calculated by using the functional relationship with porosity. Finally, the evolution histories of actual porosity with different diagenetic characteristics have been established quantitatively combined with the mechanical compaction correction. In summary, from the matching relationship between porosity evolution and hydrocarbon accumulation period, in the first period of hydrocarbon accumulation, the reservoir physical properties were good with porosity up to about 20%. In the second period of hydrocarbon accumulation, the reservoir porosity rapidly decreased to about 7% in the northern block as a result of intense carbonate cementation, and was not good for hydrocarbon accumulation. However, carbonate cementation in the southern block was weak, and most of the reservoir porosity is bigger than 10%. Therefore, the southern block was good for hydrocarbon accumulation, and became the favorable exploration target.
About author: Cao Yingchang, born in 1969, got his Ph. D. degree of geology from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. Now he is a professor and Ph. D. advisor in School of Geosciences of China University of Petroleum(East China), and is mainly engaged in research and teaching of sedimentology, sequence stratigraphy and reservoir geology of oil and gas.
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Cao Yingchang,Xi Kelai,Wang Yanzhong et al. Quantitative research on porosity evolution of reservoirs in the Member 4 of Paleogene Shahejie Formation in Hexiwu structural zone of Langgu sag, Jizhong Depression[J]. JOPC, 2013, 15(5): 593-604.
Cao Yingchang,Xi Kelai,Wang Yanzhong et al. Quantitative research on porosity evolution of reservoirs in the Member 4 of Paleogene Shahejie Formation in Hexiwu structural zone of Langgu sag, Jizhong Depression[J]. JOPC, 2013, 15(5): 593-604.