Multi-spheric interactions driven differential formation and accumulation of hydrocarbon resources in the North Sea Basin  

作　　者：Rixiang ZHU Shuichang ZHANG Huajian WANG Xiaomei WANG Yuke LIU Wang ZHANG Fang HAO Zhijun JIN 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Deep Petroleum Intelligent Exploration and Development,Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China [2]State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil&Gas Recovery,Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development,China National Petroleum Corporation,Beijing 100083,China [3]State Key Laboratory of Deep Oil and Gas,China University of Petroleum(East China),Qingdao 266580,China [4]Institute of Energy,Peking University,Beijing 100871,China

出　　处：《Science China Earth Sciences》2024年第11期3397-3420,共24页中国科学（地球科学英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 42288201, 92255303, 42202162, 42372162)。

摘　　要：The North Sea Basin is the most important oil and gas producing area in Europe and the birthplace of many classic petroleum geological theories. From the perspective of multi-spheric interactions in the Earth, this study investigated the riftforeland-rift evolution process of the North Sea Basin, which was controlled by the deep dynamic driving forces of the continental collision orogeny, mantle plume uplift, and intraplate deformation. The North Sea Basin was found to have drifted northward since the Carboniferous and passed through the low-latitude Hadley and the mid-latitude Ferrel cells. Two sets of main hydrocarbon source rocks have formed, the coals and coal measures of the Upper Carboniferous Westphalian and the marine shale of the Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation. We propose that the deep processes, tectonic activity, and transgression-climate evolution jointly controlled the types and horizons of the source rocks, reservoirs, and seals in different regions of the North Sea Basin. In the southern North Sea Basin, a Carboniferous-Lower Triassic gas-rich petroleum system was formed,which is characterized by transitional coal measure source rocks, desert aeolian sandstone reservoirs, and evaporite cap rocks. In the northern North Sea Basin, an Upper Triassic-Paleogene oil-rich petroleum system was formed, which is characterized by marine graben-type source rocks, deltaic sandstone and marine limestone reservoirs, and marine tight marl and shale cap rocks.The late tectonic burial and uplift in the North Sea Basin further controlled the processes of oil and gas generation and accumulation, ultimately leading to a differential distribution pattern which is oil rich in the northern part and gas rich in the southern part of the basin. In the future, there is an urgent need to re-examine the mechanisms for the petroleum generation and accumulation in large mature exploration areas(e.g., super basins such as the North Sea) and low exploration areas(e.g., the Okhotsk Sea and Arctic regions) from the perspect

关 键 词：North Sea Basin Multi-spheric interactions Petroleum system Okhotsk Sea region 

分 类 号：P618.13[天文地球—矿床学]