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This work aims to reconstruct the burial history of various kinds of sandstones penetrated by the well YS201 in the Yaoyingtai region of the Changling Fault Depression, southern Songliao Basin, China. Analyses of fluid inclusions in the reservoir rocks, combined with a review of the regional tectonic evolution, revealed the hydrocarbon accumulation stage and accumulation age of the Early Cretaceous Denglouku group and the first member of the Quantou group reservoir, which are the future exploration focus for deep gas reservoirs in this region. Acoustic time data and sedimentary rates calculated for sediments in the YS201 well yielded thicknesses for the Yingcheng, Nenjiang, and Mingshui groups of 506, 539.18, and 144.85 m, respectively, thereby revealing the burial history of the sediments in the well. Fluid inclusions of the Denglouku group reservoir and the first member of the Quantou group reservoir contain oil inclusions and hydro-carbonaceous salt water inclusions. The main peaks of the homogenization temperature and salinity of these saltwater inclusions in the first member of the Quantou group reservoir are generally 110-120°C and 6wt%-8wt%, respectively, and for the Denglouku group are 130-140°C and 4wt%-6wt%. The data for both reservoirs show only one main peak, indicating that they both have experienced single-stage accumulation. Combining the homogenization temperature of the reservoir fluid inclusions with the burial and thermal history of the sediments in the YS201 well, we infer that the hydrocarbon gas in these two intervals accumulated at 79 Ma (middle Late Cretaceous). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a study which aims to assess the tight oil in tight sandstone reservoirs in the Sanzhao Sag, northern Songliao Basin, China. Methods including small bin volumetric, resource abundance analogy, and estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) analogy methods were used in the study. Results indicated that migration and accumulation coefficient depends on the total hydrocarbon generation volume and are key parameters of tight oil resource assessment of hydrocarbons in the Basin.