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Title: Petroleum geology and exploration of Tarim Basin, China

Conference · · AAPG Bulletin
OSTI ID:6570433
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  1. Tarim Petroleum Exploration and Development Bureau, Xinjiang (China)

Since 1989 CNPC has carried on large-scale oil and gas exploration and geological research in Tarim Basin of Xinjiang Province, China. Twelve thousand km 2D seismic, 4500 km[sup 2] 3D seismic, and 200 exploratory wells have been completed; ninety-five wells yield commercial oil or gas flows. At this time, eight oil/gas fields have been discovered; they include Lunnan, Yaha, and Tazhong No. 4, having proved 2.7x10[sup 8]t of oil and 109.2x10[sup 9]m[sup 3] of gas in place. Two million six hundred thousand tons of crude oil was yielded in 1995 and 5x10[sup 8]t crude oil will be produced in 1997. The facies of discovered oil-gas pools in Tarim Basin are complex: there are condensate gas pools, volatile oil pools, normal oil pools, and some heavy oil pools. Structural traps form 80% of oil-gas pools. Oil-gases are mainly reservoired in sandstone beds. The burial depths of oil-gas pools range mainly from 4000 to 5500m. Oil and condensate gas occupy 60% and 40% of proved reserves respectively. Oil-gas pools are mainly distributed in the Mesozoic-Cenozoic group, in which Tertiary occupies 50%, Triassic occupies 30% and Carboniferous occupies 20%. Tarim Basin is a large overlapped composite basin, composed of Paleozoic cratonic basins and Mesozoic-Cenozoic foreland basins. Paleozoic and Mesozoic-Cenozoic oil-gas pools have different distribution character. Paleozoic oil-gas accumulations are controlled by cratonic paleo-uplifts and slopes. Mesozoic-Cenozoic oil-gas accumulations are controlled by foredeep uplifts and imbricate thrust structures of foreland thrust belts.

OSTI ID:
6570433
Report Number(s):
CONF-960527-; CODEN: AABUD2
Journal Information:
AAPG Bulletin, Vol. 5; Conference: Annual convention of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Inc. and the Society for Sedimentary Geology: global exploration and geotechnology, San Diego, CA (United States), 19-22 May 1996; ISSN 0149-1423
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English