Development characteristics and orientation of tight oil and gas in China
SUN Longde,ZOU Caineng,JIA Ailin,WEI Yunsheng,ZHU Rukai,WU Songtao,GUO Zhi
Table 1 Three-level evaluation system for tight oil sweet spots.
Sweet spot
area
Lithology Physical property Oil-bearing property
Reservoir effective thickness/m Thickness ratio of re-
servoir to stratum/%
Shale
content/
%
Area/
km2
Depth/
m
Porosity/% Overburden pressure
permeability/
10-3 μm2
Oil
satura-
tion/%
Surface oil density/
(g·cm-3)
Gas-oil
ratio
Sandstone Carbonate Sand-
stone
Carbo-
nate
Level I >15 >80 >70 <15 >50 <3 500 >12 >7 >0.1 >65 <0.75 >100
Level II 10-15 75-80 60-70 15-20 50-30 3 500-4 500 8-12 7-4 0.01-0.1 50-65 0.75-0.85 10-100
Level III 5-10 70-75 50-60 20-30 <30 >4 500 5-8 4-1 0.001-0.01 40-50 0.85-0.92 <10
Sweet spot
area
Source rock Brittleness index Crustal stress
Effective thickness/m Organic
matter type
TOC/
%
Ro/
%
Area/
km2
Poisson’s
ratio
Elasticity modulus/
104 MPa
Horizontal 2-direction
principal stress times
Pore pressure
coefficient
Level I >20 I, II1 >2 0.9-1.1 >300 <0.2 >3 About 1 >1.2
Level II 15-20 Mainly II1 1-2 0.8-0.9 150-300 0.2-0.3 2-3 1-1.5 1.0-1.2
Level III 5-15 Mainly II2 0.5-1.0 0.6-0.8 <150 0.3-0.4 1-2 1.5-2 0.8-1.0