Oil & Gas Geology ›› 1996, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (3): 243-250.doi: 10.11743/ogg19960314

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CONTROL OF PALEOPRESSURE OVER NATURAL GAS FORMATION IN TIGHT CLASOLITE RESERVOIRS

Xu Guosheng1, Zeng Fangang2   

  1. 1. National Laboratory of Hydrocarbon Reservoir Geology & Development Engineering, Chengdu, Sichuan;
    2. Lanzhou Geology Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, Gansu
  • Received:1995-12-23 Revised:1996-06-17 Online:1996-09-25 Published:2012-01-16

Abstract:

Upper Triassic clasolite reservoirs in West Sichuan are a set of tight sand-mud rocks with low porosity-low permeability, high aqueous saturation and abnormal high pressure.According to their fluid pressures and gas reserves, the reservoirs could be divided into superhigh pressure-low reserve type (Ⅰ), high pressure-high reserve type (Ⅱ) and normal to transitional pressure-high reserve type(Ⅲ).The formation and evolution of paleopressure controlled the formation of gas reservoirs.Successive pressure increase caused by gas generation and compression resulted in superhigh pressure-low reserve type reservoirs (Ⅰ) ; long-term pressure increase resulted in long distance gas migration and trap area enlargement, and thus forming high pressure-high reserve type reservoirs (Ⅱ); the development of structural fractures and high-pressure enlarged fractures, the early-stage enrichment and late-stage reformation of the reservoirs should be the basic formation model of normal to transitional pressure-high reserve type reservoirs(Ⅲ).