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Breakthrough and significance of natural gas exploration of Permian Changxing Formation at Well Pengshen10 in Sichuan Basin
The Mianyang-Guang’an shallow-water shelf is another key area for Permian-Triassic natural gas exploration in Sichuan Basin
following the Kaijiang-Liangping trough. Currently
existing efforts mainly focus on hydrocarbon exploration in bioclastic bank development zones at the margin of Suining and Guang’an platforms on both sides of the stu
dy area
while insufficient attention has been paid to the clustered biological reefs within the shelf. In 2003
the gas testing of Permian Changxing Formation at Well Pengshen10 deployed within the shelf demonstrates a high-yield industrial gas flow of 206.36×10
4
m
3
/d
exhibiting the promising exploration prospects of biological reefs. Through petrographic and geochemical analyses based on core samples
solid bitumen samples as well as seismic and logging data
this study systematically investigates the stratigraphic and sedimentary characteristics
hydrocarbon accumulation conditions
periods and patterns of Changxing Formation at Well Pengshen10. The research results show as follows. (1)The Changxing Formation at Well Pengshen10 is composed of the pinnacle reef subfacies of shallow-water shelf. The reef reservoir is charaterized with abundant dissolution pores and structural fractures
forming a good reservoir-cap combination with the overlying Feixianguan Formation mudstone. (2)The geochemical characteristics of solid bitumen in natural gas reservoir demonstrate the contributions of source rocks from Longtan Formation and Qiongzhusi Formation. The Pengshen10 well area has developed a deep-seated strike-slip fault that runs through the Sinian Dengying Formation and the Permian Changxing Formation
serving as a key channel for vertical oil and gas migration. The lithologic traps are primarily developed in Changxing Formation at Well Pengshen10. (3)The homogenization temperature of inclusions and the burial-thermal history of reservoirs jointly reveal that hydrocarbon charging mainly occurred in the Early Triassic and Middle to Late Jurassic. Based on this
combined with the development of faults and traps during the oil and gas charging period
a hydrocarbon accumulation model was ultimately established
involving multi-source hydrocarbon supply
fault-mediated migration
as well as oil-gas accumulation and adjustment in the lithological and structural traps. The exploration breakthrough at
Well Pengshen10 reveals that it is a representative area for the large-scale hydrocarbon accumulation in biological reefs over the shallow-water shelves
which points out a new direction for the exploration and deployment of natural gas in the Permian-Triassic reef shoal reservoirs of Sichuan Basin.
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