Dominant factors in controlling marine gas pools in South China |
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| Authors: | Xu Sihuang and W Lynn Watney |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Earth Resources, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, 430074, China;(2) Kansas Geological Survey, Lawrence, Kansas 66047, USA |
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| Abstract: | In marine strata from Sinian to Middle Triassic in South China, there develop four sets of regional and six sets of local
source rocks, and ten sets of reservoir rocks. The occurrence of four main formation periods in association with five main
reconstruction periods, results in a secondary origin for the most marine gas pools in South China. To improve the understanding
of marine gas pools in South China with severely deformed geological background, the dominant control factors are discussed
in this paper. The fluid sources, including the gas cracked from crude oil, the gas dissolved in water, the gas of inorganic
origin, hydrocarbons generated during the second phase, and the mixed pool fluid source, were the most significant control
factors of the types and the development stage of pools. The period of the pool formation and the reconstruction controlled
the pool evolution and the distribution on a regional scale. Owing to the multiple periods of the pool formation and the reconstruction,
the distribution of marine gas pools was complex both in space and in time, and the gas in the pools is heterogeneous. Pool
elements, such as preservation conditions, traps and migration paths, and reservoir rocks and facies, also served as important
control factors to marine gas pools in South China. Especially, the preservation conditions played a key role in maintaining
marine oil and gas accumulations on a regional or local scale. According to several dominant control factors of a pool, the
pool-controlling model can be constructed. As an example, the pool-controlling model of Sinian gas pool in Weiyuan gas field
in Sichuan basin was summed up. |
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| Keywords: | natural gas pool fluid source pool-controlling model tectonic evolution marine strata South China |
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