Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 889-901.doi: 10.11743/ogg20220412

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Reservoir characteristics of the Upper Permian marine tuffaceous deposits in Yuanba area, Sichuan Basin

Fang Xiang1,2(), Qian Xiao2, Xiantao Yu2, Hengxu Huang2, Xiang Zhu3   

  1. 1.State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu,Sichuan 610059,China
    2.Institute of Sedimentary Geology,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu,Sichuan 610059,China
    3.Exploration Company,SINOPEC,Chengdu,Sichuan 610041,China
  • Received:2022-01-13 Revised:2022-04-28 Online:2022-07-14 Published:2022-07-14

Abstract:

The study focuses on the petrological characteristics, reservoir space characteristics and diagenesis of the Upper Permian marine tuffaceous deposits in Yuanba area, Sichuan Basin based on thin section observation, analysis of scanning electron microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS), X-ray diffraction analysis, and mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) test. The research results indicate that the tuffaceous deposits interbedding with organic mudstones and carbonaceous mudstones are in laminae of 0.1-10.0 mm thick, and sandwiched within biogenetic limestones or marlstones, which can be classified into tuff, sedimentary tuff and tuffaceous sedimentary rocks. Under the joint effect of seawater and hydrotherm, the tuffaceous deposits have been altered by diagenetic effects such as recrystallization, cementation, metasomasis, dissolution and filling, resulting in a variety of secondary rock types. Acidic hydrotherm can dissolve tuffs and water-rock reaction serves to reproduce an alkaline environment resulting in filling or metasomasis of ferrodolomite/dolomite, gypsum, and a small amount of albite and barite. At the same time, the alkaline environment is also favorable for the formation and preservation of illite or mixed-layer illite/smectite, which in turn stimulates the formation of micrometer-scale dissolved pores in tuffs and nanometer-scale intercrystal pores in authigenic clay. In addition, the directionality of detrital and authigenetic clay minerals, and the existence of laminae in the tuffaceous deposits are conducive to the formation of bedding-parallel fractures, which have effectively improved the reservoir property of the rocks.

Key words: petrological feature, diagenesis, reservoir space, tuffaceous deposit, Upper Permian, Yuanba area, Sichuan Basin

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