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Reservoir petroleum inclusion GOR characteristics and geological significance from the Lunnan Low Uplift of the Tarim Basin

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There were different opinions about the origin of petroleum property variations in the Lunnan Low Uplift of the Tarim Basin. In this paper, a software PVTsim was applied to investigate the compositions of the petroleum fluid inclusions in different sets of reservoir rocks from this area. The results show that there are three phases of petroleum inclusions in the Ordovician carbonate reservoirs and two types of petroleum inclusions in the Carboniferous and Triassic sandstone reservoirs. The three phases of the petroleum inclusions from the Ordovician reservoir rocks have similar compositions with the type 1 petroleum inclusion from the carboniferous and Triassic reservoir rocks, but the type 2 petroleum inclusion from the carboniferous and Triassic reservoirs is characterized by higher content of C1 and higher GOR values. With the combination of the geological background, it was inferred that the current petroleum pools in the Lunnan Low Uplift were formed mainly by two phases of petroleum charges, one is normal oils and another light oils, and both occurred during the late Tertiary. The light oils came from eastern-south direction, and migrated and charged into the reservoirs upward and toward northern west directions. On the basis of this, it was believed that the multiphases of the petroleum charges and some composition dissipation caused by the preserved condition changes would be the main reason of the petroleum property variations in the petroleum pools in this area.

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  1. Department of Geoscience, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou, China

    Qinghua Wang

  2. State Key Laboratory of Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 510640, Guangzhou, China

    Xianming Xiao & Zhiguang Song

  3. Exploration and Development Institute, Tarim Petroleum Company, CNPC, 841000, Kuerlei, China

    Zhongyao Xiao

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Wang, Q., Xiao, X., Xiao, Z. et al. Reservoir petroleum inclusion GOR characteristics and geological significance from the Lunnan Low Uplift of the Tarim Basin. Chin. Sci. Bull. 49 (Suppl 1), 27–32 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02890450

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