Lithofacies and depositional setting of a highly prospective lacustrine shale oil succession from the Upper Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation in the Gulong sag, northern Songliao Basin, northeast China

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 103 (2) ◽  
pp. 405-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Liu ◽  
Haoli Wang ◽  
Xiaofei Fu ◽  
Yunfeng Bai ◽  
Longhui Bai ◽  
...  
Geofluids ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Long Luo ◽  
Dongping Tan ◽  
Xiaojun Zha ◽  
Xianfeng Tan ◽  
Jing Bai ◽  
...  

China shale oil, which is preserved in lacustrine shale with strong heterogeneity and relatively low maturity, has been a research hotspot of unconventional resources. However, controlling factors of shale oil enrichment and resource potential evaluation restricted efficient exploration and development of lacustrine shale oil. On the basis of well logging data, TOC content, Rock-Eval pyrolysis values, thermal maturity, 100 oil saturation data, and pressure coefficient, the core observation, X-ray diffraction analysis, physical property analysis, scanning electron microscopy, CT scan, well logging interpretation, and volumetric genesis method depending on three-dimensional geological modeling were used to determine enrichment factors and evaluate the resource potential of Qingshankou Formation shale oil in the Southern Songliao Basin. Shale oil was mainly enriched in the semideep and deep lake shale of K2qn1, with the high capacity of hydrocarbon generation and favorable petrological and mineralogical characteristics, pore space characteristics, and physical properties in the low structural part of the Southern Songliao Basin. The three-dimensional geological resource model of Qingshankou Formation lacustrine shale oil was determined by the key parameters (Ro, TOC, and S 1 ) of shale oil in the favorable zone of the Southern Songliao Basin, northeast China. The geological resource of shale oil, which was calculated by two grid computing methods ( F 1 and F 2 ), was, respectively, 1.713 × 10 12   kg and 1.654 × 10 12   kg . The great shale oil resource indicates a promising future in the exploration and development of Qingshankou Formation shale oil of the Southern Songliao Basin.


2020 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 103998
Author(s):  
Changfeng Zhu ◽  
Xingqian Cui ◽  
Yuxin He ◽  
Lishu Kong ◽  
Yongge Sun

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Liu ◽  
Jinyou Zhang ◽  
Yunfeng Bai ◽  
Yupeng Zhang ◽  
Ying Zhao ◽  
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Low-field NMR theory was employed to study the pore structure of the upper cretaceous oil shale, on the basis of fourteen core samples collected from Qingshankou (UCQ) and Nenjiang (UCN) formations in the Songliao basin. Results indicated that the T2 spectra from NMR measurements for collected samples contain a dominant peak at T2 = 1∼10 ms and are able to be categorized as three types—unimodal, bimodal, and trimodal distributions. The various morphologies of T2 spectra indicate the different pore type and variable connection relationship among pores in shale. By contrast, UCN shale has more single pore type and adsorption pores than UCQ shale. Besides, NMR-based measurements provide reliable characterization on shale porosity, which is verified by the gravimetric approach. Porosities in both UCN and UCQ shales have a wide range (2.3%∼12.5%) and suggest the strong heterogeneity, which partly makes the challenge in selection of the favorable area for shale oil exploration in the Songliao basin. In addition, the pore size of the collected sample has two distribution types, namely, peaked at ∼10 nm and peaked at ∼100 nm. Similarly, two distribution patterns emerge to the specific surface area of the study shale—peaked at ∼2 nm−1 and peaked at ∼20 nm−1. Here, more investigations are needed to clarify this polarization phenomenon. Basically, this study not only exhibits a preliminary understanding on the pore structure of the upper cretaceous oil shale, but also shows the reliability and pertinency of the low-field NMR technique in the petrophysical characterization of the shale oil reservoir. It is expected that this work is helpful to guide the investigation on the pore structure of oil shale from the Songliao basin in theory.


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