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Geological genesis of strong amplitude of sedimentary anticlines and identification of sedimentary facies and reservoirs of Pinghu Formation in Xihu Depression
Journal of Northwest University (Natural Science Edition) 2023, 53(1): 116-127
Published: 25 February 2023
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To find out the relationship between amplitude and lithology of Pinghu Formation in Xihu Depression, this paper analyzes the amplitude changes of coal seam and sandstone when they are thickened or thinned by means of seismic forward modeling and log constrained inversion. The relationships are analyzed between horizon amplitude, inversion speed and lithologic content of different wells. The results show that both coal seam and sandstone thickening can lead to amplitude enhancement, and thin layer interference and fault zones can also cause change in amplitude. The increase of amplitude in the core of contemporaneous anticline is caused by the thickening of sandstone in delta front of lower Pinghu Formation and the increase of coal seam content in delta plain of mid to upper Pinghu Formation. The plane extension and morphology of strong amplitude and the high velocity part of the lower Pinghu Formation indicate the type of river-dependent delta reworked by waves. This conclusion is helpful to the sedimentary facies depiction, reservoir characterization and target evaluation in the region.

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High-frequency sequence division reveals the intergrowth development regularity between source rocks and reservoirs of deep lake facies strata in the faulted depression:Taking the Eocene Liushagang 2 interval in Haizhong Depression, Beibuwan Basin as an example
Journal of Northwest University (Natural Science Edition) 2024, 54(3): 527-540
Published: 25 June 2024
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Taking the deep lake sedimentary system of the Eocene Liushagang 2 interval in the Haizhong Depression, Beibuwan faulted lacustrine basin as an example, guided by the theory of high-resolution sequence stratigraphy, the high-frequency sequence division of the Liushagang 2 interval was carried out by means of the utilization of the maximum entropy spectrum analysis and wavelet transform analysis techniques; further, the source-reservoir intergrowth regularity of the deep lake strata in the faulted lacustrine basin was discussed, on basis of the analysis of the development rules of sedimentary system, and also the analysis of the development regularity of deep lake facies source rocks and sublacustrine fan gravity flow sandstones in the high-frequency grade-5 sequence of the Liu 2 interval. The research suggests: INPEFA spectrum analysis and wavelet transform analysis technology can be effectively applied to the high-frequency sequence division in deep lake facies strata in the faulted lake basin; the Liu 2 interval in Haizhong depression of Beibuwan Basin can be divided into one grade-3 sequence, two grade-4 sequences and five grade-5 sequences, with the grade-4 sequence being divided into two system tracts of the lake expansional system tract(TST) and the lake contraction system tract(HST), which are interfaced by the maximum flooding lake surfurce(Mfs); High-quality thick source rocks in faulted lacustrine basins were often developed in the initial grade-5 sequence at the first lake flooding surface in the lower part of the lake expansional system tract of grade-4 sequence. Although the source rocks developed in the two grade-5 sequences closely under or over the maximum lake flooding surface at the top of the lake expansional system tract of grade-4 sequence are large in areal extent, but thin in thickness, which can thus be served as the secondary source rocks and most well cap rocks. The grade-5 sequence at the middle part of the grade-4 sequence in the lake expansion system tract often developed sublacustrine fan gravity flow facies reservoirs, which are sandwiched between the two sets of source rocks nearing the initial lake flooding surface and the maximum lake flooding surface, while all these together could form a good sandwich type source-reservoir-cap assemblage, which should be a follow-up field of unconventional oil and gas prospection.

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