Seismic inversion as a predictive tool for porosity and facies delineation in Paleocene fluvial/lacustrine reservoirs,Melut Basin,Sudan

The Melut Basin is a rift basin in the interior Sudan linked to the Mesozoic-Cenozoic Central and Western African Rift System. The Paleocene Yabus Formation is the main reservoir deposited in heterogeneous fluvial/lacustrine environment. Delineation of channel sandstone from shale is a challenge in reservoir exploration and development. We demonstrate a detailed 3D quantitative seismic interpretation approach that integrates petrophysical properties derived from well logs analysis. A porosity transform of acoustic impedance inversion provided a link between elastic and rock properties. Thus, we used seismic porosity to discriminate between different facies with appropriate validation by well logs. At the basin scale, the results revealed lateral and vertical facies heterogeneity in the Melut Basin. Good reservoir quality is observed in the Paleocene Yabus Formation. The sand facies indicated high porosity (20%) corresponding to low acoustic impedance (20000–24000 g ft/(cm3.s)). However, lower quality reservoir is observed in the Cretaceous Melut Formation. The porosity of sand/shale facies is low (5%), corresponding to high acoustic impedance (29000–34000 g ft/(cm3.s)). This suggests that the Yabus Sandstone is potentially forming a better reservoir quality than Melut Formation. At the reservoir scale, we evaluated the facies quality of Yabus Formation subsequences using petrophysical analysis. The subsequences YB1 to YB3, YB4 to YB7 and YB8 to YB10 showed relatively similar linear regressions, respectively. The subsequence of YB4 to YB7 is considered the best reservoir with higher porosity (25%). However, subsequence YB1 to YB3 showed lower reservoir quality with higher shale volume (30%). This attributed to floodplain shale deposits in this subsequence. Similarly, the high porosity (20%) recognized in deeper subsequences YB6 to YB9 is due to clean sand facies. We learnt a lesson that appropriate seismic preconditioning, exhaustive petrophysical analysis and well log validation are important keys for improved reservoir quality prediction results in fluvial/lacustrine basins.     

四川乐山震旦系灯影组火山碎屑岩锆石LA-ICP-MSU-Pb定年及盆地裂陷演化讨论

四川盆地中部晚震旦(埃迪卡拉)世—早寒武世克拉通内裂陷与安岳震旦(埃迪卡拉)系—寒武系特大气田的形成关系密切,年代学研究对认识克拉通内裂陷构造意义重大。对四川盆地乐山先锋剖面灯影组三段火山碎屑岩进行锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb定年,研究结果表明四川盆地灯影组三段火山碎屑岩的锆石U-Pb年龄为(539.6±1.4)Ma,年代学结果表明四川盆地灯三段与灯四段属于寒武系。基于灯影组底界(551.1 Ma)、含火山碎屑岩的灯三段(539.6 Ma)、含小壳化石的麦地坪组(535.2 Ma)和下寒武统Ni—Mo多金属硫化物富集层(521.0 Ma)四个等时面构建了克拉通内裂陷演化的时间框架。在此基础上认为四川盆地中部晚震旦(埃迪卡拉)世—早寒武世隆坳构造的形成主要受边界断裂控制,断层活动使裂陷内水体加深,少量灯四段含硅质白云岩沉积后,麦地坪组与筇竹寺组开始沉积,麦地坪组与灯四段的界线在裂陷内与裂陷两侧并不等时,裂陷内麦地坪组、筇竹寺组与裂陷两侧灯影组四段为同期异相沉积。     

贵州天柱大河边铅锌矿床的发现及其意义

大河边重晶石矿床是一个世界级的超大型重晶石矿床。最近在该区重晶石矿床下部的震旦系陡山沱组碳酸盐岩(白云岩)和碎屑岩中,新发现一套规模较大、层位产出稳定的铅锌矿化。铅锌矿体和重晶石矿床具有"上部为重晶矿,下部为铅锌硫化物矿床"的矿化特征。铅锌矿段矿石矿物主要为闪锌矿、黄铁矿及方铅矿,含少量白铁矿、黄铜矿及磁黄铁矿;脉石矿物主要为石英和重晶石,少量白云石、热液磷灰石、炭沥青及钡冰长石。成矿流体特征类似于形成沉积喷流型铅锌矿床的流体特征。铅锌矿化中的硫源自局限海盆内早寒武世海水经硫酸盐还原作用提供。此种类似于喷流沉积型铅锌矿床在南华裂谷盆地一带矿化层位稳定、分布范围较广泛,体现早寒武世时在裂谷盆地内存在一次大规模的热液事件。天柱大河边铅锌矿床的发现具有重要的资源意义及区内该种矿床的勘查意义。     

辽河东部凹陷大平房地区走滑活动及其对构造圈闭的控制作用

辽河东部凹陷由于潜在的油气资源和复杂的构造条件(郯庐断裂穿过此凹陷),走滑活动及其对构造圈闭的控制作用对于揭示郯庐断裂北段新生代的活动及渤海湾盆地的油气勘探有重要意义。以大平房地区为实例,根据地震、钻井和测井资料,揭示了大平房地区存在走滑构造活动的行迹,包括平面上的雁列构造及其对火山岩分布的影响,剖面上的负花状构造样式及断层倾向和背斜轴向沿构造走向的变化。发育的荣兴屯走滑断裂控制并改造大平房断背斜的构造格局,东营组二段沉积开始,致使地层反转,形成透镜状地层。荣兴屯走滑活动产生的构造圈闭具有纵向分段、平面分带的特征。     

辽宁青城子铅锌金银矿矿集区围岩原岩恢复及其构造背景

辽宁青城子矿集区产出在辽东裂谷凹陷带,是中国北方重要的铅锌金银多金属矿集区.矿体与含矿岩系呈整合产出,受一定层位和岩性控制,其中大石桥组是铅锌的矿源层,具有高金丰度和富As的盖县组是金银的矿源层,变质作用或者韧性剪切作用使得金得到富集而成矿.铅锌矿床围岩主要为大石桥亚群杨树沟岩组大理岩、变粒岩和浅粒岩;金银矿床围岩主要为上部盖县组片岩,少量大石桥组变粒岩.围岩的岩石地球化学特征及原岩恢复表明,青城子铅锌矿围岩中的大理岩原岩为灰岩、白云岩,变粒岩、浅粒岩原岩主要为泥质砂岩,个别为火山岩;金银矿围岩中的片岩类原岩为泥岩、砂质泥岩及粉砂岩,变粒岩原岩为泥质砂岩.青城子铅锌金银围岩中的大理岩和片岩构造环境应属稳定大陆边缘,变粒岩、浅粒岩构造环境应属活动大陆边缘或岛弧.结合区域构造演化历史认为,裂谷活动所造成的地壳拉张、变形及其相关的构造-岩浆活动,为铅锌矿床的形成提供有利环境;不同级别的裂谷盆地内的沉积作用以及海底火山喷气作用、沿同生断裂发生热水沉积作用,为矿源层的形成提供成矿物质和成矿流体;吕粱期变质作用对区内铅锌矿的叠加、富集起重要的控制作用.     

Thermal history, geodynamics, and current thermal activity of lithosphere in China

The tectonic framework of China includes major and smaller-scale units that differ in age and in style of tectonomagmatic activity, the latter being related to the thermal history of the lithosphere. Heat flow in the area varies from 25 to 150 mW/m² or higher, with an average of 58±11 mW/m². It is high in active faults, rifts, and other structures of extension (or sometimes compression) subject to heating from rising lithospheric and mantle plumes. The current thermal activity in the region is controlled by the Pacific subduction beneath Eurasia in eastern China and mainly by the lateral strain and rotation of the Ordos block associated with the India–Eurasia interaction in central and western China.     

Stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Blue Nile Basin,Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau

The Blue Nile Basin, situated in the Northwestern Ethiopian Plateau, contains ∼1400 m thick Mesozoic sedimentary section underlain by Neoproterozoic basement rocks and overlain by Early–Late Oligocene and Quaternary volcanic rocks. This study outlines the stratigraphic and structural evolution of the Blue Nile Basin based on field and remote sensing studies along the Gorge of the Nile. The Blue Nile Basin has evolved in three main phases: (1) pre‐sedimentation phase, include pre‐rift peneplanation of the Neoproterozoic basement rocks, possibly during Palaeozoic time; (2) sedimentation phase from Triassic to Early Cretaceous, including: (a) Triassic–Early Jurassic fluvial sedimentation (Lower Sandstone, ∼300 m thick); (b) Early Jurassic marine transgression (glauconitic sandy mudstone, ∼30 m thick); (c) Early–Middle Jurassic deepening of the basin (Lower Limestone, ∼450 m thick); (d) desiccation of the basin and deposition of Early–Middle Jurassic gypsum; (e) Middle–Late Jurassic marine transgression (Upper Limestone, ∼400 m thick); (f) Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous basin‐uplift and marine regression (alluvial/fluvial Upper Sandstone, ∼280 m thick); (3) the post‐sedimentation phase, including Early–Late Oligocene eruption of 500–2000 m thick Lower volcanic rocks, related to the Afar Mantle Plume and emplacement of ∼300 m thick Quaternary Upper volcanic rocks. The Mesozoic to Cenozoic units were deposited during extension attributed to Triassic–Cretaceous NE–SW‐directed extension related to the Mesozoic rifting of Gondwana. The Blue Nile Basin was formed as a NW‐trending rift, within which much of the Mesozoic clastic and marine sediments were deposited. This was followed by Late Miocene NW–SE‐directed extension related to the Main Ethiopian Rift that formed NE‐trending faults, affecting Lower volcanic rocks and the upper part of the Mesozoic section. The region was subsequently affected by Quaternary E–W and NNE–SSW‐directed extensions related to oblique opening of the Main Ethiopian Rift and development of E‐trending transverse faults, as well as NE–SW‐directed extension in southern Afar (related to northeastward separation of the Arabian Plate from the African Plate) and E–W‐directed extensions in western Afar (related to the stepping of the Red Sea axis into Afar). These Quaternary stress regimes resulted in the development of N‐, ESE‐ and NW‐trending extensional structures within the Blue Nile Basin. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

甘肃龙首山新元古代烧火筒群沉积特征及其构造意义

华北地块西南缘龙首山隆起广布一套前寒武纪碳酸盐质为主要成分组成的碎屑流沉积,近年来发现在邻区北山、祁连山地区亦有分布。岩石状貌特殊,砾石大小混杂,呈无磨圆的棱角、半棱角状,为杂基支撑结构。区域上岩层连续性好,但厚薄不一,厚几米至几十米,局部与火山岩相变。根据其上覆、下伏岩层同位素年龄和微古植物化石定年资料,分析判断为新元古代中晚期的产物,讨论其成因为大陆裂谷沉积构造环境下,地壳急剧动荡,崩塌原稳定台地相的沉积,大量崩塌堆积物在大陆裂谷斜坡形成碎屑流移动而成。其为大陆裂谷的典型沉积,具有重要的指相意义。龙首山及邻区新元古代中晚期大面积碎屑流沉积分布,表证当时大规模大陆裂谷作用的发生,与全球性Rodinia大陆裂解的认识一致.     

Geometric structure and formation mechanism of Lintong-Chang’an fault zone

The results from investigation of large quantity of fault outcrops and artificial earthquakes suggest that the Lin-tong-Chang’an fault zone mainly consists of two faults. One is the Majie-Nianwan fault that separates a branch of Wangjiabian-Houjiawan fault on the right bank of the Bahe River; the other is the Hujiagou-Shoupazhang fault that separates a branch of Zhongdicun-Tangjiazhai fault in Tongrenyuan and Shaolingyuan. As tensional dip-slip normal faults, the faults distribute with approximately parallel equal intervals in local regions and the profiles drop in a step-like form to the northwest, presenting a Y-shape combination. The result from deep seismic reflection indicates that the fault is about 5~8 km in depth, which is not only a basement fault, but also a listric normal fault in the deep stratum. The Lintong-Chang’an fault is a typical outstretching rift system under the NS-trending ten-sion stress field. At the same time, affected by the sinistral strike slip of the Yuxia-Tieluzi fault, the fault extends like a broom from the northeast to the southwest.     

Hydrocarbon accumulation in network and its application in the continental rift basin

The concept of hydrocarbon accumulation in network was presented on basis of the overall analysis of the formation and evolution characteristics of the continental faulted basin and of the systemic re-search on the major controlling factors on the hydrocarbon accumulation. The hydrocarbon accumu-lation in network can be defined as hydrocarbon accumulation in a three-dimensional network system which is constituted by the hydrocarbon migration passages under multiple dynamics,following the hydrocarbon generation from source rocks. The research shows that the hydrocarbon accumulation in network is composed of four elements,i.e.,hydrocarbon source (source rock kitchen),hydrocarbon accumulation terminal (trap),network pathway connecting source and terminal (transporting system),and network potential driving hydrocarbon migration in the network pathway (migration dynamics). Compared with other networks,hydrocarbon accumulation in network has three basic characteristics: the irreversible geological process of material and information flow in the network; the loss of material and information in the flow process in the network; the multiple dynamics in the flow process. Interac-tion of all the elements in the geological process can be called hydrocarbon accumulation in network. There are three basic models for hydrocarbon accumulation in network,that is,hydrocarbon accumu-lation in the network source area,hydrocarbon accumulation in the network pathway,and hydrocarbon accumulation in the network terminal. The key in the application of the hydrocarbon accumulation models in network in practice is to confirm the major accumulation stage and the function range of the four elements controlling the hydrocarbon firstly,to predict the profitable accumulation region by su-perposition of the favorable areas confirmed by four elements consequently,and to evaluate the oil-bearing property of the trap as well as confirm drilling targets. This paper takes the Dongying De-pression in the Bohai Bay Basin as an application example.