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Hydrocarbon generation evaluation of Permo-Carboniferous source rocks in Qinggu-2 well in Dongpu depression, China

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The Dongpu (东濮) depression is a Mesozoic subsidence and Cenozoic fault basin developed within the North China craton. Since the deposition of Permo-Carboniferous hydrocarbon source rock, the depression has undergone many tectonic disturbances and uplifts. The source rocks have undergone nonuniform uplift, deformation, deep burying, and magmatism, and those led to an interrupted or stepwise evolution of the hydrocarbon source rocks in Qinggu (庆古)-2 well. We have investigated the history of burying, heating, and hydrocarbon generation of the Permo-Carboniferous hydrocarbon source rocks not just on the basis of tectonic disturbance and deep burying, but also with new studies in apatite fission track analysis, fluid inclusion measurements, and the application of the numerical simulation of EASY%R o. The heating temperature of the source rocks pulsated upward from Indosinian to Himalayan stages and reached a maximum during early Himalayan. This led to the stepwise increases of organic maturation and multiple stages of hydrocarbon generation. This study delineated the tectonic stages, maturity evolved ranges, and the intensity of hydrocarbon generation of Permo-Carboniferous source rocks in Qinggu-2 well. The hydrocarbon generation mainly occurred during Indosinian and early Himalayan. The early Himalayan stage hydrocarbon generation is the larger one, but the Dongying (东营) movement, which happened at the end of early Himalayan, may destroy the trapped oil and gas. Thereby, future exploration will need to pay more attention to the Dongying movement effect in Qinggu-2 well area, and it may get new breakthrough in Permo-Carboniferous oil and gas.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Coal Bed Methane Resource and Reservoir Formation Course of Ministry of Education, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221008, China

    Yanming Zhu  (朱炎铭), Shangbin Chen  (陈尚斌) & Meng Wang  (王猛)

  2. College of Resource and Geoscience, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, 221008, China

    Yanming Zhu  (朱炎铭), Shangbin Chen  (陈尚斌), Xiaodong Lan  (兰晓东), Meng Wang  (王猛) & Junhua Fang  (方俊华)

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This study was supported by the Science and Technology Key Item of China National Petroleum Corporation (No. 970206), the Natural Oil & Gas Stratagem Tap of China (No. XQ-2004-03), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40730422).

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Zhu, Y., Chen, S., Lan, X. et al. Hydrocarbon generation evaluation of Permo-Carboniferous source rocks in Qinggu-2 well in Dongpu depression, China. J. Earth Sci. 21, 94–103 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-010-0007-2

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