RESEARCH PAPER

Reservoir geological modeling and significance of Cambrian Xiaoerblak Formation in Keping outcrop area, Tarim Basin, NW China

  • Jianfeng ZHENG ,
  • Wenqing PAN ,
  • Anjiang SHEN ,
  • Wenfang YUAN ,
  • Lili HUANG ,
  • Xinfeng NI ,
  • Yongjin ZHU
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  • 1. Key Laboratory of Carbonate Reservoir, CNPC, Hangzhou 310023, China
    2. PetroChina Hangzhou Research Institute of Geology, Hangzhou 310023, China
    3. Tarim Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Korla 841000, China

Received date: 2019-06-28

  Revised date: 2019-12-26

  Online published: 2020-06-19

Supported by

China National Science and Technology Major Project of(2016ZX05004-002);PetroChina Science and Technology Major Project(2019B-0405);PetroChina Science and Technology Major Project(2018A-0103)

Abstract

Take the Cambrian Xiaoerblak Formation in the Keping (Kalpin) outcrop area as an example, a 28 km reservoir scale geological model was built based on description of 7 profiles, observation of more than 1000 thin sections, petrophysical analysis of 556 samples and many geochemical tests. The Xiaoerblak Formation, 158-178 m thick, is divided into three members and 5 submembers, and is composed of laminated microbialite dolomite (LMD), thrombolite dolomite (TD), foamy-stromatolite dolomite (FSD), oncolite dolomite (OD), grain dolomite (GD)/crystalline dolomite with grain ghost and micritic dolomite (MD)/argillaceous dolomite. The petrology features show that its sediment sequence is micro-organism layer - microbial mound/shoal - tidal flat in carbonate ramp background from bottom up. The reservoir has 5 types of pores, namely, framework pore, dissolved vug, intergranular and intragranular dissolved pore and intercrystalline dissolved pore, as main reservoir space. It is found that the development of pore has high lithofacies selectivity, FSD has the highest average porosity, TD, OD and GD come second. The reservoir is pore-vug reservoir with medium-high porosity and medium-low permeability. The dolomite of Xiaoerblak Formation was formed in para-syngenetic to early diagenetic stage through dolomitization caused by seawater. The reservoir development is jointly controlled by sedimentary facies, micro-organism type, high frequency sequence interface and early dolomitization. The classⅠand Ⅱ reservoirs, with an average thickness of 41.2 m and average reservoir-stratum ratio of about 25.6%, have significant potential. It is predicted that the microbial mounds and shoals in the middle ramp around the ancient uplift are the favorable zones for reservoir development.

Cite this article

Jianfeng ZHENG , Wenqing PAN , Anjiang SHEN , Wenfang YUAN , Lili HUANG , Xinfeng NI , Yongjin ZHU . Reservoir geological modeling and significance of Cambrian Xiaoerblak Formation in Keping outcrop area, Tarim Basin, NW China[J]. Petroleum Exploration and Development, 2020 , 47(3) : 536 -547 . DOI: 10.1016/S1876-3804(20)60071-4

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