Study of gas source, diagenesis stage and accumulation process of the sandstone of the Shanxi Formation in the southern north China Basin

Abstract:

In order to systematically and deeply study the gas source, diagenesis stage and accumulation process of the upper  
Paleozoic Shanxi Formation in Taikang and the Bengbu Uplift in the Southern North China Basin, this paper adopted the crystal
linity of illite, fluid inclusion petrography, and Micro-Laser Raman, combined with rare gas isotopes, which provides a detailed  
study of the diagenesis stage of sandstone, the accumulation process of tight sandstone gas and its source and contribution rate.  
The crystallinity of illite in the sandstone ranges from 0.64 to 1.06 ( 2θ), indicating an early to middle diagenesis stage. The
smectite content in the I/S mixed layer ranges from 0 to 50 % , indicating a middle diagenetic stage A-B. The temperature of fluid  
inclusions is in two ranges of 110~120 ℃ and 130~150 ℃, which also indicates in the middle diagenetic stage A-B. Integrating  
the three research methods of illite crystallinity, smectite content in mixed layer I/S and paleo-temperature, the diagenesis  
stage of tight sandstone in the Shanxi Formation is in the middle diagenetic stage A-B. Through fluid inclusion petrographic  
observations combined with Micro-laser Raman testing, the type, composition, and generation relationship of the inclusions  
are accurately determined, and there is only one hydrocarbon accumulation period. Using the homogenization temperatures  
of the hydrocarbon-bearing brine inclusions, “projecting” these onto the burial history map with paleotemperature evolution,  
the accumulation time of tight sandstone gas in the Shanxi Formation is determined to be the end of the Indosinian to the early  
Yanshan period. By using rare gas isotope 40 Ar/ 36 Ar values to calculate the age of the gas source rock, it is determined that the  
natural gas in tight sandstone in the Shanxi Formation comes from the Carboniferous-Permian. According to the mud shale and  
coal rock two-end-member mixing model, the contribution rate of natural gas produced by different source rocks to natural gas in  
sandstone samples was calculated. The results indicate that the main source rock of natural gas in tight sandstone of the Shanxi  
Formation in the southern north China Basin is the mud shale, and the contribution rate of shale is about 73 % . Coal rock plays a  
secondary role in the entire hydrocarbon generation process, and the contribution rate is about 27 % .


Key words:diagenesis stage; accumulation; tight sandstone gas; rare gas isotope; southern north China Basin

Received: 2021-05-11

Corresponding Authors:guosb58@126.com

Cite this article:刘瑞, 郭少斌, 屈凯旋, 郭予斌. 南华北盆地山西组砂岩的气体来源、成岩阶段与成藏过程研究. 石油科学通报, 2021, 03: 356-368 LIU Rui, GUO Shaobin, QU Kaixuan, GUO Yubin. Study of gas source, diagenesis stage and accumulation process of the sandstone of the Shanxi Formation in the southern north China Basin. Petroleum Science Bulletin, 2021, 03: 356-368.

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