Orignal Article

Hydrocarbon migration pathways in the Neogene of Laixi structural belt, southern Bohai Sea, China

  • QIAN Geng ,
  • NIU Chengmin ,
  • YANG Bo ,
  • TU Danfeng ,
  • LI Guoying ,
  • GAO Wenbo
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  • Bohai Petroleum Research Institute, CNOOC Tianjin Company, Tianjin 300450, China

Abstract

Characteristics, distribution, temporal and spatial configuration, and effectiveness of hydrocarbon migration pathways have been investigated through geochemical and formation pressure analysis etc, to further reveal hydrocarbon accumulation patterns in the Neogene of the Laixi structural belt, southern Bohai Sea of China. Firstly, three factors, faults, carrier rocks (beds) and mud caprocks of the transporting framework in the Neogene were examined to find out its feature and space configuration and made static state evaluation. It is found that besides the Guantao Formation - lower Minghuazhen Formation No. V oil layers, the No. I - III oil layers in the lower Minghuazhen Formation are also the dominant oil and gas carrier beds. Cutted by the adjustment faults and sealed by mudstone capcocks, the two carrier layers are combined into a “layered cake” type hydrocarbon migration framework. Then the hydrocarbon passage pathways were tracked dynamically and described using nitrogen compounds concentration, formation pressure, fluorescence logging and sand bodies description, which shows that the “T03-T02-T01 mudstone cap layers” separate the Neogene hydrocarbon migration pathways into upper and lower units. The massive sandy conglomerate reservoirs in the Guantao Formation - lower Minghuazhen Formation No. V oil layers are the carrier bed of the lower hydrocarbon migration pathway, while the north-south trending overlapped and connected channel sandbodies in lower Minghuazhen Formation No. I - III oil layers are the carrier bed of the upper unit. Hydrocarbon migrated laterally along the two passage ways, accompanying with differential accumulation.

Cite this article

QIAN Geng , NIU Chengmin , YANG Bo , TU Danfeng , LI Guoying , GAO Wenbo . Hydrocarbon migration pathways in the Neogene of Laixi structural belt, southern Bohai Sea, China[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2016 , 43(1) : 34 -41 . DOI: 10.11698/PED.2016.01.04

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