Petroleum geology in Tarim basin, China
- West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV (United States)
Tarim basin is a superimposed basin with two tectonic regimes and contains multisources, multireservoirs, and multiseals. Almost all major strata within the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic exist in the basin, and they are grouped by six regional unconformities, which are related to hydrocarbon accumulation. Source rocks are Cambrian marl; Lower Ordovician black carbonaceous shales; Middle Ordovician dark gray limestone; Upper Ordovician brownish black carbonaceous shales and oil shales; grayish black carbonaceous shales, dark gray and grayish brown bituminous marl, and reef limestone in the Carboniferous and Permian; and gray to dark gray shales in the Triassic-Jurassic oil-bearing strata. Reservoir rocks in the Cambrian-Ordovician oil-bearing strata and the Carboniferous-Permian oil-bearing strata are mainly fractured limestones and sandstones. The fracture distribution is related to unconformities. Vugs and casts also exist in most limestones; intergranular porosity exists in sandstones. The reservoirs in the Triassic-Jurassic are fluvial-deltaic sandstones, and above are Cretaceous gypsum and halite seals. Ten types of traps are found in this basin: (1) fold-related anticline traps, (2) anticline-fault traps, (3) fault drag-related anticline traps, (4) traps underneath thrusting faults, (5) fault-block traps (6) traps made from cross or arc-like fault and monocline, (7) salt dome traps, (8) traps created by intrusion, (9) lenticular or pinchout traps, and (10) unconformity and overlap traps.
- OSTI ID:
- 6811806
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-940988-; CODEN: AABUD2
- Journal Information:
- AAPG Bulletin (American Association of Petroleum Geologists); (United States), Vol. 78:8; Conference: Annual meeting of the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), East Lansing, MI (United States), 18-21 Sep 1994; ISSN 0149-1423
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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