Earth Science Frontiers ›› 2023, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (1): 30-44.DOI: 10.13745/j.esf.sf.2022.8.25

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Sedimentary characteristics and gas accumulation potential of the Ordovician carbonate-evaporite paragenesis system in central and eastern Ordos Basin

BAO Hongping(), WANG Qianping(), YAN Wei, CAI Zhenghong, ZHENG Jie, WEI Liubin, HUANG Zhengliang, GUO Wei   

  1. 1. Exploration and Development Research Institute of PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi’an 710018, China
    2. National Engineering Laboratory for Exploration and Development of Low-Permeability Oil & Gas Fields, Xi’an 710018, China
  • Received:2022-07-07 Revised:2022-08-06 Online:2023-01-25 Published:2022-10-20

Abstract:

A sedimentary system consisting of interactive ultra-thick carbonate rock and gypsum-salt rock developed in the Ordovician Majiagou Formation in the central and eastern Ordos Basin, however, its development process and natural gas accumulation characteristics are not clear. By studying its tectonic and paleogeographic background, sedimentary features, reservoir development, hydrocarbon source supply and trap accumulation, we gain new geological insights into the carbonate-evaporite paragenesis system, which can be summarized as follows: 1) Affected by its surrounding ancient uplifts, the carbonate-evaporite paragenesis system is formed in a restricted sea with periodic isolation from the open sea, therefore its lithologic distribution has obvious “facies-control” and “strata-bound” characteristics. 2) The key factor controlling the development of the Ordovician “interior dissolved pore” type reservoir is “nonstratiform sedimentary differentiation”—a novel concept, proposed here for the first time. 3) Controlled by regional lithologic transition and later structural inversion, the Ordovician sub-salt stratum has favorable conditions for forming lithologic trap system on a large scale. 4) Although the sub-salt stratum has limited hydrocarbon-generation capacity from its own marine source rocks, it still has the potential of large-scale hydrocarbon supply/accumulation due jointly to the Yanshanian tectonic uplift in its eastern part, hydrocarbon supply from Upper-Paleozoic coal-bearing source-rock on its west side, and regional continuous distribution of gypsum-salt capping strata.

Key words: Ordos, Ordovician, nonstratiform sedimentary differentiation, carbonate-gypsum rock, sub-salt hydrocarbon accumulation, window for hydrocarbon supply

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