1. Secondary migration of hydrocarbons in the Zhujiang formation in the Huixi half-graben, Pearl River Mouth Basin, South China Sea
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Peng, Junwen, Pang, Xiongqi, Xiao, Shuang, Peng, Huijie, Li, Qianwen, Song, Shuang, Wu, Luya, Chen, Di, and Hu, Tao
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Pearl River (China) -- Natural history ,Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) -- Natural history ,Hydrocarbons -- Natural history ,Earth sciences - Abstract
The process and mechanisms of secondary hydrocarbon migration in the Huixi half-graben, Pearl River Mouth Basin, were investigated on the basis of geological analysis of the strata and study of the porosity and permeability of the reservoir rocks, fluid potential, oil properties, and geochemistry of oil-source correlation. The results suggest that the hydrocarbons of the Zhujiang Formation in the Huixi half-graben were derived from source rocks of the Eocene Wenchang Formation and the Eocene-Oligocene Enping Formation in the Huizhou Sag. The hydrocarbons migrated laterally from northeast to southwest. The sandstone in the upper member of the Zhujiang Formation exhibited superior physical properties (porosity and permeability) and connectivity than the lower member. Thin sandstone beds with good physical properties and stable distribution in the upper member of the Zhujiang Formation were the main carrier beds for lateral hydrocarbon migration. Les processus et les mecanismes de migration secondaire des hydrocarbures dans le demi-graben d'Huixi, dans l'embouchure du bassin de la riviere Pearl, ont ete etudies en se basant sur l'analyse geologique des strates et la determination de la porosite et de la permeabilite des roches reservoir, le potentiel de fluides, les proprietes du petrole et la geochimie de la correlation petrole-source. Selon les resultats, les hydrocarbures de la Formation de Zhujiang dans le demi-graben d'Huixi proviendraient des roches-meres de la Formation de Wenchang (Eocene) et de la Formation d'Enping (Eocene-Oligocene) dans l'affaissement d'Huizhou. Les hydrocarbures ont migre lateralement du nord-est au sud-ouest. Le gres dans le membre superieur de la Formation de Zhujiang presentait de meilleures proprietes physiques (porosite et permeabilite) et une meilleure conductivite que le membre inferieur. De minces lits de gres avec de bonnes proprietes physiques et une distribution stable dans le membre superieur de la Formation de Zhujiang constituaient les principaux lits reservoirs pour la migration laterale des hydrocarbures. [Traduit par la Redaction], Introduction Hydrocarbon migration, which connects the processes of hydrocarbon generation and final accumulation, has been a matter of interest in petroleum geology for many years (Magoon and Dow 1994). However, [...]
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- 2016
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