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Relationship between the later strong gas-charging and the improvement of the reservoir capacity in deep Ordovician carbonate reservoir in Tazhong area, Tarim Basin

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Some large-scale oil-gas fields have recently been discovered in marine carbonate in China, especially the significant discoveries in deep reservoir that reveals a favorable exploration prospect. Tazhong area is the first-order tectonic unit in Tarim Basin, where there are nearly trillion cubic meters of natural gas resources in the Ordovician limestone reef flat complex in Lianglitage Formation. The reservoir is shelf edge reef flat complex, characterized by ultra-low porosity, low permeability and strong heterogeneous, with a current burial depth of 4500–6500 m. Studies find that the formation and distribution of deep reservoir of the Lianglitage Formation were controlled not only by the early high-energy sedimentary facies and corrosion, but the fracture network formed by the strong gas-charging process since the Himalayan epoch, which played an important role in optimizing and improving reservoir properties. This paper discusses the relationship between the strong later gas-charging and the improvement of the reservoir capacity in deep Ordovician carbonate reservoir, and also builts the corresponding mechanisms and modes, which is favorable for the prediction and evaluation of the advantageous exploration targets.

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  1. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing, 100083, China

    WenZhi Zhao, GuangYou Zhu, ShuiChang Zhang, XueFeng Zhao & HongJun Wang

  2. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, Tarim Oilfield Company, PetroChina, Korla, 841000, China

    YuShan Sun, HaiJun Yang & JianFa Han

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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2007CB209500) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos: 40602016 and 40773032)

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Zhao, W., Zhu, G., Zhang, S. et al. Relationship between the later strong gas-charging and the improvement of the reservoir capacity in deep Ordovician carbonate reservoir in Tazhong area, Tarim Basin. Chin. Sci. Bull. 54, 3076–3089 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0457-z

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