Diagenesis and hydrocarbon emplacement in the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation tight sandstones in the southern Ordos Basin,China

The Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation in the southern Ordos Basin is a tight sandstone but productive hydrocarbon exploration target. A variety of analyses, including thin-sections, cathodoluminescence (CL), scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), fluorescence, isotope and fluid inclusion, have been used to analyse the reservoir petrology and diagenesis to understand the evolution of reservoir porosity. The sandstones are mostly feldspathic litharenites and lithic arkoses with low porosities (7.6% on average) and extremely low permeabilities (0.49 mD on average). A complex diagenetic alteration history of the reservoir caused different kinds of reduction in reservoir porosity. The carbonate cements are sourced from adjacent organic-rich mudstone and precipitated with a higher content near the edges of sandstone units and a lower content at the centres of sandstone units, resulting in two different diagenetic evolution paths. The analysis of porosity evolution history and hydrocarbon emplacement produced the following conclusions: (1) during the eodiagenesis period, mechanical compaction reduced the primary porosity dramatically from 40 to 19%; and (2) during the mesodiagenesis period, the first-phase oil charged the reservoir (porosity ranging from 14 to 19%) as bitumen along detrital grains forming a preferential pathway for subsequent oil emplacements. In the second-phase of oil charge, the reservoir porosity ranged from 9 to 14% limiting water–rock reactions. During the third-phase of oil charge, porosity of the reservoir remained at 9%. In general, the densification period (with a porosity close to 10%) of the reservoir occurs at the same time as the major oil emplacement and may be an explanation for the low oil saturation of the Chang 8 tight sandstone.     

碳酸盐岩储层孔隙结构的影响因素与储层参数的定量评价

近几年,在海外区块遇到了大量的孔隙型碳酸盐岩储层。由于岩性复杂,孔隙类型多样,致使其孔隙结构十分复杂,储层参数难以准确计算,油气储量难以客观评价。文中针对研究靶区这一类型的碳酸盐岩储层,首先从沉积作用和成岩作用两个方面分析了孔隙结构的影响因素,得出在不同岩性之间,孔隙类型之间的差异是造成孔隙结构存在较大差异的主要原因。而在同种岩性之间,泥质含量的增加会降低孔隙结构的品质。另外,成岩作用对颗粒粒径较大的岩石的影响更大一些。其次,讨论了储层参数的定量评价,由于不同类型孔隙的共存,导致孔隙度相似,而渗透率、饱和度等储层参数却存在较大差异。针对这一问题,指出了可以采用核磁和成像等特殊测井资料来表征不同类型孔隙的数值分布,利用三维数字化成像技术来展示不同类型孔隙的空间分布,为储层参数的准确计算和油气储量的客观评价奠定基础。     

碳酸盐岩油藏流动单元研究方法探讨

流动单元研究对于提高油田采收率具有很大的实际意义，该项研究在砂岩油藏研究中已取得较大进展．对于缝洞型碳酸盐岩油藏由于成因、岩性和岩石结构构造、成岩后生作用、构造断裂作用、溶蚀作用等多因素对储集空间的影响，使已有的流动单元概念及研究技术方法难于应用．针对缝洞型碳酸盐岩地质特征，论证了碳酸盐岩储层渗流屏障的存在及其类型．提出区别于砂岩油藏的缝洞型碳酸盐岩储层流动单元的概念．说明各类动态资料对油藏储层流动单元研究较为重要．提出了研究思路和方法，包括：油藏压力趋势分析法、井间生产干扰分析法、流体性质差异分析法、井间干扰试井法．并结合塔河油田实际资料。进行了初步分析．     

豫西北太行山奥陶系露头区裂缝发育特征及主控因素

在总结前人研究资料和实地观测豫西北太行山奥陶系5处露头区的基础上,运用地质统计学与构造应力场分析的方法,对豫西北太行山奥陶系露头区裂缝发育特征及其主控因素进行了研究。结果表明：研究区以高角度裂缝为主,可分为北北西、北西西、北北东和北东东向4组,裂缝切深变化较大,野外可见的切深多为0.15～1.4 m,裂缝线密度为1～10条/m,裂缝张开度一般介于0.1～3 cm之间;裂缝充填程度包括未充填、半充填和全充填3种,以未充填裂缝为主,半充填和全充填裂缝次之;裂缝充填物以方解石为主,灰泥质充填和铁质充填次之。通过对研究区裂缝主控因素和成因机制分析,认为其主要形成于古近纪、中新世、上新世至更新世早期、中更新世以来4个时期;构造作用、岩性和岩层厚度是影响其发育的最主要因素,其中构造作用对裂缝的倾向、倾角、张开度、切深、充填状况等影响较大,岩性及层厚与裂缝线密度关系密切,岩层内白云质含量愈高裂缝越发育,且裂缝线密度平均值与岩层厚度平均值具有良好线性关系。     

塔中地区奥陶系碳酸盐岩储层裂缝发育特征及主控因素

主要依据塔中地区40多口钻井的奥陶系岩心裂缝观察、深浅侧向测井和FM I成像测井的响应特征等综合识别裂缝和获得裂缝特征参数。研究认为塔中地区奥陶系碳酸盐岩储层构造裂缝大量发育,以高角度缝和微裂隙最为发育,大、中缝较少,有近一半裂缝为未被充填的有效缝;平面上沿断裂带由西向东裂缝线密度变大,有效性增强;纵向上发育上奥陶统裂缝段、中—下奥陶统顶部100 m内裂缝段和深部裂缝段,中—下奥陶统顶部100 m内为裂缝集中发育段;裂缝发育程度与断裂构造和岩性关系密切,在断层发育密集区或多组断裂交汇处裂缝最发育,距离主断层或次级断层越近裂缝越发育,白云岩裂缝发育程度好于灰岩;好的裂缝发育区位于塔中地区东部多组断裂带交汇的部位。     

新疆阿合奇地区哈拉奇组、康克林组碳酸盐岩微相特征和沉积环境

采用微相分析的方法,对新疆阿合奇地区晚石炭世一早二叠世哈拉奇组和康克林组碳酸盐岩的微相类型和沉积环境进行了研究,发现两地层单元具有不同的岩石结构、颗粒组分及生物化石组合微相特征。哈拉奇组沉积粒度相对较细,泥质含量较高,生物碎屑相对较少,可划分出5种微相类型和5种次一级微相类型;康克林组生物种类丰富,个体保存较完整,颗粒组分出现了较多鲕粒、核形石等,亮晶胶结普遍,泥级组分相对较少,可划分出6种微相类型和8种次一级微相类型。根据微相类型组合特征和野外沉积构造,认为哈拉奇组碳酸盐岩主要形成于深水陆棚和台地斜坡2种沉积环境,其次为台地边缘浅滩和开阔台地沉积,总体反映较深水沉积环境;康克林组碳酸盐岩主要形成于台地边缘浅滩、开阔台地和局限台地3种沉积环境,反映沉积环境水体相对较浅。     

碳酸锰氧化实验和热力学分析

通过对碳酸锰氧化实验的结果分析和讨论，建立了一种适合于锰氧化过程的非平衡热力学模型，并利用此模型对硫酸锰氧化过程作了热力学可行性分析，研究结果表明，碳酸锰氧化过程是矿物组合的变化过程，也是锰自身价态的转为过程，整个过程既存在平衡状态，又存在非平衡状态，是一个不可逆的，多相的复杂反应。     

重质碳酸钙表面改性及充填丁苯橡胶试验研究

重质碳酸钙是一种重要的无机矿物填料，经过表面改性，可以将其由普通填料变成性能优越的功能填料。本次研究选用鄂西优质重质碳酸钙为试验样品，采用干法表面化学改性方法对重质碳酸钙实施了改性，通过测定改性重质碳酸钙的活化率、湿润接触角、固液悬浮体的粘度、白度及表面化学成分对其性能进行考察，并对改性效果进行评价。在丁苯橡胶中的应用试验显示，改性重质碳酸钙充填丁苯橡胶的性能良好，其应用前景广阔。     

Carbonate deposition in a fluvial tufa system: processes and products (Corvino Valley – southern Italy)

In a multi‐scale approach to the study of the organic and mineral components in an active barrage‐type tufa system of southern Italy, neo‐formed deposits, in both natural depositional sites and on inorganic substrates placed in the stream for this study, were observed and compared through one year of monitoring. Dams and lobes representing the basic morpho‐facies of the deposits are composed of two depositional facies: vacuolar tufa (a mixture of phytoclastic and framestone tufa) and stromatolitic tufa (phytoherm boundstone tufa). Three petrographic components comprise both facies: micrite and microsparite, often forming peloidal to aphanitc, laminar and dendrolitic fabrics, and sparite, which occurs as isolated to coalescent fan‐shaped crystals forming botryoids or continuous crusts. All fabrics occurring in all depositional facies are organized into layers with a more or less well‐developed cyclicity, which has its best expression in stromatolitic lamination. The precipitation of all types of calcite (with Mg 1·0 to 3·2 mole % and Sr 0·5 to 0·8 mole %) takes place more or less constantly during all seasons, in spite of the low saturation state of the water (the saturation index range is 0·75 to 0·89) within the active depositional zone; the latter extends for a few hundred microns through the external surface of the deposit. The active depositional zone has a particular micro‐morphology composed of porous micro‐columns (50 to 150 μm in size), separated by interstitial channels. Mineral precipitation occurs upon both external surfaces and within internal cavities of the micro‐columns, while further point sites of precipitation occur suspended within the masses of cyanobacterial tufts. Sub‐spherical mineral units, ‘nano‐spheres’ (10 to 20 nm in diameter) are the basic biotic neo‐precipitate; they commonly form by replacing non‐living degrading organic matter and at point sites along the external surface of living cyanobacterial sheaths. Nano‐spheres agglutinate to form first rod‐shaped aggregates (100 to 200 nm) which then evolve into triads of fibres or polyhedral structures. Successively, both triads and polyhedral solids coalesce to form larger calcite crystals (mainly tetrahedrons tens of microns in size) that represent the fundamental bricks for the construction of the micro‐columns in the active depositional zone. Precipitation is attributed to the presence of a widespread biofilm that occurs in the active depositional zone; this is composed of a heterogeneous community comprising epilithic and endolithic filamentous cyanobacteria, green algae, unicellular prokaryotes, actinobacteria and fungi, with a variable amount of extracellular polymeric substances. No precipitation takes place where the biofilm is absent, indicating that the biological activities of the biofilm are crucial, with its living organisms and non‐living organic matter. Basic aggregates of neo‐precipitates do not form in association with any one particular type of organic matter substrate, but appear to be related to the seasonal temperature variation: polyhedral micro‐crystals mainly precipitate in the colder season, short triads in the intermediate seasons, and long triads in the warmest conditions. These three basic crystal aggregates have a petrographic counterpart, respectively, in the spar, microspar and micrite.     

Calcio-carbonatite melts and metasomatism in the mantle beneath Mt. Vulture (Southern Italy)

At Mt. Vulture volcano (Basilicata, Italy) calcite globules (5–150 μm) are hosted by silicate glass pools or veins cross-cutting amphibole-bearing, or more common spinel-bearing mantle xenoliths and xenocrysts. The carbonate globules are rounded or elongated and are composed of a mosaic of 2–20 μm crystals, with varying optical orientation. These features are consistent with formation from a quenched calciocarbonatite melt. Where in contact with carbonate amphibole has reacted to form fassaitic pyroxene. Some of these globules contain liquid/gaseous CO₂ bubbles and sulphide inclusions, and are pierced by quench microphenocrysts of silicate phases. The carbonate composition varies from calcite to Mg-calcite (3.8–5.0 wt.% MgO) both within the carbonate globules and from globule to globule. Trace element contents of the carbonate, determined by LAICPMS, are similar to those of carbonatites worldwide including ΣREE up to 123 ppm. The Sr–Nd isotope ratios of the xenolith carbonate are similar to the extrusive carbonatite and silicate rocks of Mt. Vulture testifying to derivation from the same mantle source. Formation of immiscibile silicate–carbonatite liquids within mantle xenoliths occurred via disequilibrium immiscibility during their exhumation.