Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 833-844.doi: 10.11743/ogg20220408

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Sedimentary architectures of reef-shoal facies at the platform margin during Changxing times of the Late Permian around Kaijiang-Liangping trough in the Sichuan Basin and their differences

Xu Chen1,2(), Mingyi Hu1, Changhai Xu3, Dawei Wang4   

  1. 1.School of Geosciences,Yangtze University,Wuhan,Hubei 4301000,China
    2.Key Laboratory of Tectonics and Petroleum Resources,Ministry of Education,China University of Geosciences (Wuhan),Wuhan,Hubei 430074,China
    3.Exploration and Development Research Institute of Southwest Oilfield Branch Company Ltd. ,PetroChina,Chengdu,Sichuan 163712,China
    4.Research Institute of BGP,CNPC,Zhuozhou,Hebei 072750,China
  • Received:2021-12-17 Revised:2022-05-18 Online:2022-07-14 Published:2022-07-14

Abstract:

The reef-shoal gas reservoirs of Changxing Formation around the Kaijiang-Liangping trough in the Sichuan Basin are the major targets of natural gas exploration and development in eastern Sichuan Basin. However, few studies have been seen on the sedimentary architectures of reef-shoal around platform margin and their differences as of now. An integrated analysis of cores, thin sections, well logs, and seismic data, is applied to disclose the changes of slope angle at the front, lithologic composition of organic reef-shaol facies, reef cycle, external contour, vertical superimposition pattern, lateral migration, spatial distribution characteristics and differences around the trough, coupled with the seismic stratigraphic framework around the trough. The results are as follows. First, the Kaijiang-Liangping trough formed during the Late Permian rifting, when the NW-trending tensional basement-rooted faults were active, has nearly U-shaped platform marginal zones developed around. The palaeotectonic pattern of platform margin is characterized by “deep water in the steep northwest and shallow water in the wide and gentle southeast”. Second, the sedimentary architectures of platform margins around can be classified into four types, that is, the fault-controlled steep slope type with accretion rim, sedimentary steep slope type with accretion rim, gentle slope break type with retrograding strip, and extremely gentle slope type with discrete migration. These architectures are in alternative distribution around the trough, the western and northern platform margin dominated by fault-controlled or vertical superimposed steep slope type and the eastern and southern by extremely gentle slope type with discrete migration. Third, tectonic palaeogeomorphology and sea level eustacy jointly control the formation of sedimentary architectures of the platform margin in the study area and their differences. Among others, the former controls the pattern of the platform margin and accommodation of organic reef, and the latter controls the sedimentary architecture, migration and superposition of reef-shoal.

Key words: organic reef-shoal facies, platform margin, sedimentary architecture, Changxing Formation, Late Permian, Kaijiang-Liangping trough, Sichuan Basin

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