Characteristics and Natural Gas Origin of Middle-Late Triassic Marine Source Rocks of the Western Sichuan Depression, SW China  

作　　者：SUN Tengjiao LUO Xiaoping QING Hairuo KOU Xueling SHENG Zhongming XU Guosheng ZUO Yinhui 

机构地区：[1]College of Energy Resource,Chengdu University of Technology,Chengdu 610059,China [2]State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Geology and Exploitation.Chengdu 610059,China [3]Department of Geology,University of Regina,Regina,Saskatchewan,S4S0A2.Canada [4]South Exploration Company,SINOPEC,Chengdu 610041,China

出　　处：《Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)》2020年第2期376-398,共23页地质学报（英文版）

基　　金：the Special Key Discipline-Geological Resources and Geological Engineering Scholarship(No.11000-13Z00703)of Chengdu University of Technology(CDUT);Oil and Gas Plays Accumulation and Enrichment Mechanisms in the Sichuan Basin Research Program for funding this research.

摘　　要：A scientific exploration well(CK1) was drilled to expand the oil/gas production in the western Sichuan depression, SW, China. Seventy-three core samples and four natural gas samples from the Middle–Late Triassic strata were analyzed to determine the paleo-depositional setting and the abundance of organic matter(OM) and to evaluate the hydrocarbon-generation process and potential. This information was then used to identify the origin of the natural gas. The OM is characterized by medium n-alkanes(n C15–n C19), low pristane/phytane and terrigenous aquatic ratios(TAR), a carbon preference index(CPI) of ~1, regular steranes with C29 > C27 > C28, gammacerane/C30 hopane ratios of 0.15–0.32, and δDorg of-132‰ to-58‰, suggesting a marine algal/phytoplankton source with terrestrial input deposited in a reducing–transitional saline/marine sedimentary environment. Based on the TOC, HI index, and chloroform bitumen "A" the algalrich dolomites of the Leikoupo Formation are fair–good source rocks;the grey limestones of the Maantang Formation are fair source rocks;and the shales of the Xiaotangzi Formation are moderately good source rocks. In addition, maceral and carbon isotopes indicate that the kerogen of the Leikoupo and Maantang formations is type Ⅱ and that of the Xiaotangzi Formation is type Ⅱ–Ⅲ. The maturity parameters and the hopane and sterane isomerization suggest that the OM was advanced mature and produced wet–dry gases. One-dimensional modeling of the thermal-burial history suggests that hydrocarbon-generation occurred at 220–60 Ma. The gas components and C–H–He–Ar–Ne isotopes indicate that the oilassociated gases were generated in the Leikoupo and Maantang formations, and then, they mixed with gases from the Xiaotangzi Formation, which were probably contributed by the underlying Permian marine source rocks. Therefore, the deeply-buried Middle–Late Triassic marine source rocks in the western Sichuan depression and in similar basins have a great significant hydrocarbon potential

关 键 词：MIDDLE to Late TRIASSIC source rock CHARACTERISTICS HYDROCARBON generation and potential origin of naturalgas western SICHUAN depression 

分 类 号：P618.13[天文地球—矿床学]