A dynamic theory of hydrocarbon migration

This paper presents a new analysis of secondary migration of hydrocarbon that does not require capillary forces for trapping, but instead uses the method of characteristics and wave theory. The waves change speed and either reflect or refract (or partially reflect and partially refract) as they contact with layers of different flow capacities. Reflection of a certain wave from a boundary starts hydrocarbon accumulation below that boundary. The method is easy to use and conforms readily to graphical solution. For the sake of simplicity there is only two-phase flow. The application of this method gives new insights into the physics of migration and entrapment of oil. The method gives realistic times for oil accumulation and points to oil generation rate as the most sensitive variable. Oil and water densities, viscosities, and permeability are also important. We find that at the very small generation rates usually assumed the time required to develop a given column thickness is insensitive to the distance from the source rock. In general, the method also predicts a non-uniform saturation in the oil column caused by an interaction between buoyancy and viscous forces. Being based on the dynamic interactions of viscous and buoyancy forces, our theory is considerably at odds with hydrostatic approaches. We assume no capillary pressure, one-dimensional flow, and no regional groundwater flow, conditions which are not realized in actual migration. The theory should be viewed therefore as an end member of a more general theory; nevertheless, the largely graphical solutions give fundamental insights that are difficult to obtain by other techniques.     

Numerical Simulation Of Oil/Oily-Contaminant Migration And Entrapment In A Lenticular Reservoir

Numerical simulations show that water and oil/oily-contaminant migration are controlled by regional fluid-potential fields which may be modified locally by highly permeable lenses and buoyancy. In addition, fluid potentials are coupled to the distribution of oil/oily-contaminant via relative permeability and capillary-pressure curves. As saturation distributions evolve through space and time, so do the water and oil fluid-potential surfaces. The importance of capillary forces in oil contaminant migration and entrapment is illustrated by the fact that, in certain cases, lenses fill from above, even when the migrating fluid is lighter than water. Capillary forces operating in conjunction with lenticular reservoirs create excellent dynamic oil traps by allowing free passage of water, while retaining and concentrating oil. The analysis of oil (oily-contaminant) migration using numerical modeling and potentiometric-surface techniques is useful for the prediction of migration pathways and potential accumulation sites. On the other hand, identifying acatual accumulations from fluid-potential measurements (via inverse modeling) is not possible because fluid potentials are not uniquely dependent on saturation.     

油气成藏与分布的递变序列

在分析成藏过程的基础上,指出了不同类型油气藏分布的序列性。油气生成的多源性和不同聚集条件下成藏聚集的多变性构成了油气在平、剖面上发育和分布的序列性,它由生供烃序列、运移序列、封存序列以及成藏序列等构成,多因素变化导致不同盆地中的油气藏分布构成多种变化序列。若将不同盆地中的典型油气藏片段进行时空组接,则上述所有油气藏类型都将在理想的盆地中出现,构成理论上完整的油气成藏机理序列。对具体的盆地而言,由于不同类型油气藏的存在几率及发育的规模和程度各有差异,通常形成以几种机理类型为主的油气藏组合序列。单就一定条件下的天然气成藏分析而言,煤层气或页岩气、根缘气、致密砂岩气、水溶气、常规圈闭气以及甲烷水合物等可构成完整的油气成藏机理递变序列。     

岩性圈闭地质风险评价原则与方法探讨

依据对油气勘探理论和圈闭概念的理解和认识,认为在建立岩性圈闭地质模型时,对岩性圈闭的地质风险评价应分3个层次进行,即圈闭的成藏环境、圈闭自身的成藏条件和圈闭可靠性的评价,从而得到圈闭的含油气性系数或圈闭的地质风险系数.在分析圈闭自身的成藏条件时,应对传统的"生、储、盖、运、圈、保"进行分类和归纳,利用圈闭获得油气的能力、圈闭的储集能力、圈闭的后期保存条件"三要素"对岩性圈闭的含油气性进行评价.运用该评价系统对西部新区塔里木、准噶尔盆地中的储备圈闭进行了评价,其评价结果均较合理.     

松辽盆地敖古拉断裂的封烃泄水作用

敖古拉断裂位于齐家一古龙坳陷生油气区向西运移的指向上。且其走向与油气运移方向垂直。该断裂自基底一直断到第四系。具同生正断特征。通过封堵率计算研究表明,该断裂的侧向封烃能力在姚家组和泉头组地层中为中等,在嫩江组和青山口组地层中较好。通过断面压力计算发现,该断裂垂向封闭性在浅部差,深部好;在断裂走向上断裂中部差。向两端逐渐变好。通过地层水矿化度和变质系数等参数的分布规律及一系列折算水位剖面图的分析发现。该断裂对水是不封闭的,并且是盆地西缘大气渗入水向东流动(向心流)及齐家—古龙坳陷沉积压实水向西流动(离心流)的共同泄水带。所以,该断裂是一条封烃泄水断裂。敖古拉断裂封烃泄水的主要机理是毛细管压力作用。由于敖古拉断裂的封烃泄水作用,使其对齐家—古龙坳陷向西运移的油气起到了一定的屏障作用。     

MIGRATION AND ACCUMULATION OF OIL AND GAS ACCORDING TO THE SOURCE-ROCK THEORY

Practically all oil and gas accumulations throughout the world are associated with some extensive productive series which consist of highly permeable rocks containing oil and gas pools, interbedded with shales and marls containing dispersed organic matter. All of the important recent discoveries between the Volga and the Urals were based on the observed association of oil and gas pools with certain lithologic-stratigraphic complexes of the Devonian, Carboniferous, and part of the Permian; although accumulation is related to many diverse Structural zones. Here, the productive series is the source rock as well, for the pelites contain dispersed organic matter including bitumen whose composition is related to the oils.

Where accumulations occur in sediments deposited under oxidizing conditions, factors are sought which favor migration from possible source rocks along faults, unconformities, or surfaces of facies change. For example, in Azerbaidjan and Turkmenistan large oil and gas accumulations in Pliocene continental beds occur along structural zones that allowed migration from underlying, principally Paleogene and Miocene, deposits.

As shales compact, their organic constituents gradually change; the coaly part from a ligniferous to a carboniferous stage and, ultimately, to graphite. The mobile bituminous substances formed by dissociation of organic matter and disproportioning of hydrogen, change from asphaltines and resins to oils and then to methane in the subcapillary pores of pelites, where they are in a dispersed, loosely bound state. Compaction causes slow removal of the loosely bound water and molecular migration with differentiation of the bituminous substances. After differentiation, the more mobile hydrocarbons are carried by the water into reservoir rocks. The bituminous substances move from small to large pores also by capillary forces. Migration in subcapillary pores apparently ceases when rocks become lithified and are no longer plastic.

In the super-capillary pores and fissures of reservoir rock, free migration takes place as both molecular migration and movement in larger masses. Water circulates in reservoir beds from elevated areas of the outcrop toward lower discharge areas. When the hydrocarbon-bearing water moves into different environments of temperature and pressure, the hydrocarbons may come out of solution, rise to the top of the carrier-beds, and unite into oil and gas pools if traps are available. The location of oil and gas reflects the present equilibrium of fluids with the structural pattern and hydrogeological environment. --D. C. Van Siclen.     

煤层气藏的封闭及其研究意义——华北石炭—二叠系煤层气藏封闭特征浅析

煤层气是一种以吸附气为主的天然气,其保存与散失的矛盾仍十分突出．毛细封闭、质量浓度差封闭和压力封闭是煤层气藏封闭的主要表现形式．根据这３种不同封闭机理对煤层气藏的作用特点的不同,可以分为以压力封闭和围岩中毛细封闭为主的他封闭型,以毛细封闭和质量浓度差封闭为主的自封闭型,以及３种封闭共同作用的混合封闭型．自封闭型煤层气藏的封闭特征主要取决于煤储层自身的孔裂隙系统发育特征,其含气量通常较高．而他封闭型煤层气藏的含气饱和度受下列因素的制约：（１）连续沉积的围岩岩性及其厚度;（２）相邻煤层气藏中煤层气（或烃）质量浓度的高低;（３）构造条件是否简单稳定;（４）水文地质条件是否稳定;（５）区域不整合界面与煤层气藏之间的垂直距离及其连通状况．煤层气藏的外部封闭按规模可分为３级：第１级封闭是煤系围岩对煤系内若干煤层气藏的封闭;第２级封闭是煤系内其他岩系对某一煤层气藏及其顶底板构成的封闭;第３级封闭是顶底板围岩对某一特定煤层气藏的封闭．煤层气藏封闭条件的优劣是决定煤层气藏保存与高产的关键因素之一,而水文地质条件是影响煤层气藏封闭的关键．认识华北不同地质条件下各煤层气藏封闭特征的差异、寻找封闭条件良好的煤层气藏是今后煤层气勘探     

东濮凹陷流体势和天然气运移、聚集

本文从东濮凹陷桥白地区出发,研究了流体势和天然气运移方向、聚集的关系。指出了东濮凹陷储集岩地层水压力系统属压实作用引起的沉积水压系统,水流方向为离心流。流体势特点为油、气、水势等势面在水平面投影轮廓近似。油气一般聚集于低势区,但又往往因岩性而出现局部高势区高产天然气。本文最后从烃水界面倾斜度分析了油气聚集条件上的差别。     

油气运移基础理论与油气勘探

在非均质地层中, 烃类的扩散流和体积流可以同时存在并可相互转换.扩散流有助于烃类从源岩中排出, 并通过流动方式的转变直接参与油气的聚集成藏.在致密泥岩层中, 扩散流和体积流的计算流速分别为4~18 m/Ma和3~15 m/Ma, 几乎没有差别, 说明泥岩中的流动也可以用达西公式来表述.虽然油气的浮力流和渗流都是地下多孔介质中的流动, 但油气在水中上浮不呈连续相流动.因此不要求也不能用达西公式表述临界运移饱和度和相对渗透率.优势运移通道和有效运移空间是2个不同的概念, 前者是指油气运移的主要方向, 后者是指地层中真正发生了油气运移的空间.大约有70%的油气藏位于优势运移通道上, 而在运载层中有效运移通道空间约占总孔隙空间的5%~10%.圈闭的封盖强度与闭合度有3种不同的组合类型, 它们是世界上油气分布的主控因素.根据研究和统计, 世界石油储量的半衰期约为29 Ma, 大油田的中值年龄约为35 Ma.根据烃类的微渗漏流量计算, 中-大型油气藏的平均自然年龄约为50~100 Ma.      

Effects of fault activities on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation in the Zhu I Depression,Pearl River Mouth Basin,South China Sea

Faults can act as either conduits or barriers for hydrocarbon migration, because they have complicated anisotropic flow properties owing to their complicated three-dimensional structures. This study focuses on the Zhu I Depression, Pearl River Mouth Basin (PRMB), China. In this area, hydrocarbon migration and accumulation occurred over a relatively short period of time and were contemporaneous with fault activation, so the characteristics of hydrocarbon accumulations can be used to deduce the effect of active faults on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation. This study addresses the effect of fault activity on flow properties during hydrocarbon migration through a quantitative and comparative analysis of fault activity vs hydrocarbon accumulation. The fault slip rate and shale smear factor parameters were used to characterise faulting and elucidate its effect on hydrocarbon migration and accumulation. Active faults are generally excellent vertical conduits with strong fault activation resulting in vertical migration of most hydrocarbons and little preservation; traps near faults with fault slip rates greater than 20 m/Ma rarely contain commercial oil and gas accumulations. Faulting can form shale smear, which, if continuous, can act as a barrier to hydrocarbon migration. An active fault can allow hydrocarbon transport from deeper formations and to be trapped by continuous shale smear in shallower strata. Most of the oil and gas in the Zhu I Depression have accumulated near faults with a moderate fault slip rate (<20 m/Ma) and development of continuous shale smear (SSF<4–6).     

油气成藏期断层古侧向封闭性预测方法及其应用

油气成藏期断层古侧向封闭能力的强弱对于油气的聚集和分布有着重要的影响,目前尚无有效的评价方法用于定量分析断层古侧向封闭性,并且在利用断层侧向封闭油气SGR(Shale Gouge Ratio)下限方法预测油柱高度过程中,发现断层侧向封闭油气能力与油气分布呈现部分不吻合现象,即井在预测范围之内,但是该井却不含油气.经过深入研究表明:这种现象可能是由于在油气成藏期断层古侧向封闭能力弱(达不到侧向封闭油气下限)造成的.因此,在断层侧向封闭油气SGR下限方法的基础上,通过恢复油气成藏期的古地层厚度、断层古断距、古泥质含量曲线,建立一套断层古侧向封闭性的评价方法,并以冀中坳陷文安斜坡文13断圈为例,利用断层古侧向封闭性评价法对断圈的古侧向封闭能力进行定量评价.结果表明:文13断圈在油气成藏期侧向封闭油气高度为0 m,与井试油结论相吻合,表明该方法用于定量评价断层古侧向封闭性是可行的,对于准确评价断圈封闭油气能力、降低断圈油气钻探风险以及丰富和完善断层侧向封闭理论均具有实践和理论意义.      

3D seismic analysis of complex faulting patterns above the Snapper Field,Gippsland Basin: implications for CO2 storage

Mechanical damage (e.g. faults and fractures) related to tectonic forces and/or variations in formation pore pressures may enable the leakage of fluids through otherwise effective seal rocks. Characterisation of faults and fractures within seals is therefore essential for the assessment of long-term trap integrity in potential CO₂ storage sites. 3D seismic reflection data are used to describe a previously unrecognised network of extensive, small Miocene-age faults with displacement of generally <30 m and lengths that vary between ～300 and 2500 m above the Snapper Field, in the Gippsland Basin. The Snapper Field is a nearly depleted oil and gas field that presents an attractive site for potential CO₂ storage due its structural closure and because it has effectively retained significant natural hydrocarbon (including CO₂) columns over geological time-scales. Volume-based seismic attributes reveal that this fault system is located within the Oligocene Lakes Entrance Formation of the Seaspray Group, which acts as the regional seal to the Latrobe Group reservoirs in the Gippsland Basin. Detailed analysis of fault lengths and linkages suggests that the Miocene faults are non-tectonic, polygonal faults, although the displacement analysis of fault segments reveals strong correlations with the both the structure of the underlying Top Latrobe surface and normal faults that segment the Latrobe Group reservoirs, suggesting that the development of this fault system has been influenced by underlying structures. The geological evidence for long-term retention of hydrocarbons within the Snapper Field suggests that this fault system has not compromised the integrity of the Lakes Entrance Formation seal, although elevated pore pressures during CO₂ injection could potentially lead to reactivation of these structures.     

断层垂向封油气性综合定量评价方法探讨及应用

在断层垂向上封油气机理及影响因素分析的基础上,通过物理模拟建立了原油通过断裂带运移速度与断层填充物粒度、倾角和泥质含量之间的函数关系。根据断裂带粒度、泥质含量和倾角,基于求取油气通过断裂带运移速度的大小,建立了利用油气通过断裂带运移速度研究断层垂向封油气性的综合定量评价方法。将该方法分别应用于库车坳陷克拉2气田和车古20潜山主要断层垂向封气和油性评价中,评价结果与实际地质条件吻合较好,表明该方法用于评价断层对油气的垂向封闭性均是可行的,是一种综合定量的评价方法。     

Site characterisation of a basin-scale CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> geological storage system: Gippsland Basin,southeast Australia

Geological storage of CO₂ in the offshore Gippsland Basin, Australia, is being investigated by the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Gas Technologies (CO2CRC) as a possible method for storing the very large volumes of CO₂ emissions from the nearby Latrobe Valley area. A storage capacity of about 50 million tonnes of CO₂ per annum for a 40-year injection period is required, which will necessitate several individual storage sites to be used both sequentially and simultaneously, but timed such that existing hydrocarbon assets will not be compromised. Detailed characterisation focussed on the Kingfish Field area as the first site to be potentially used, in the anticipation that this oil field will be depleted within the period 2015–2025. The potential injection targets are the interbedded sandstones of the Paleocene-Eocene upper Latrobe Group, regionally sealed by the Lakes Entrance Formation. The research identified several features to the offshore Gippsland Basin that make it particularly favourable for CO₂ storage. These include: a complex stratigraphic architecture that provides baffles which slow vertical migration and increase residual gas trapping and dissolution; non-reactive reservoir units that have high injectivity; a thin, suitably reactive, lower permeability marginal reservoir just below the regional seal providing mineral trapping; several depleted oil fields that provide storage capacity coupled with a transient production-induced flow regime that enhances containment; and long migration pathways beneath a competent regional seal. This study has shown that the Gippsland Basin has sufficient capacity to store very large volumes of CO₂. It may provide a solution to the problem of substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions from future coal developments in the Latrobe Valley.     

伊利石测年在焉耆盆地油气成藏时期研究中的应用

油气藏成藏时期的确定是进行油气藏勘探与评价的重要工作内容之一。也是揭示成藏过程的有效途径，利用伊利石测年确定油气成藏期，能够得出其绝对年龄，因而受到人们重视，运用自生伊利石同位素年龄测定的原理和方法及自生伊利石同位素年龄资料对焉耆盆地博湖坳陷油气藏成藏时期及油气运移时期进行了分析，最后对自生伊利石同位素测年存在的问题和措施进行了有益的探讨并克服了以往只能根据地质综合研究定性确定油气藏成藏时期及油气运移时期问题，为定量确定油气藏成藏时期以及油气运移时期提供了科学的方法。     

利用三维荧光技术判识油气属性

芳烃是原油和生油岩中重要的组成部分,芳烃化合物较为复杂、稳定,可用来进行油源对比及油气属性的鉴别,是油气化探指示油气存在及油气属性的主要指标.三维荧光图谱具有“指纹图”的特征,不同性质的样品,其三维荧光光谱的各特征参量存在明显的差异,而同源样品,其参量又存在着较大程度的共性.通过对某探区近地表土壤样品的三维荧光分析表明,三维荧光光谱对油气属性具有较好的指示作用,据其可推断下覆圈闭的含油气性质,是地面化探研究油气运移及指示油气属性的有效指标.     

三角洲前缘砂体中石油二次运移与聚集过程物理模拟及结果分析

物理模拟是阐明油气二次运移的效率、机理及其在圈闭中的聚集过程的一个重要途径。针对三角洲前缘砂体这种最有利于油气藏形成的砂体类型,设计了石油在多层均质砂层构成的指状非均质储层运移物理模拟实验模型,来考查石油二次运移的通道、效率和速率。实验表明,石油二次运移的通道十分有限,石油在砂状体的最凸出部位进入储层后,主要沿指状砂体中央有限的通道（约5cm宽）由油源向圈闭运移,而且运移速度很快,约1．4cm/min,通道上含油饱和度较低,约16％。当到达顶部的封闭层后,石油开始聚集成藏。这就表明了石油二次运移、聚集成藏具有沿着有限通道快速、高效运移、聚集成藏的特征,揭示了石油运移“高速公路”的存在和油藏形成与大量排烃同步这一成藏规律。     

海拉尔盆地乌尔逊凹陷石油运移模式与成藏期

海拉尔盆地由多个凹陷构成, 油气潜在资源丰富.研究含油凹陷油气的来源、油气充注方向及成藏时间对指导盆地油气勘探具有理论和现实意义.以乌尔逊凹陷为例, 采用生物标志化合物及含氮化合物定量分析技术, 研究了石油的来源及运移方向; 利用自生伊利石K-Ar同位素测年法、源岩生排烃史法及储层流体包裹体测温法, 探讨了石油成藏期.结果表明, 原油主要来源于凹陷南部“烃源灶”内的南屯组生油岩, 油气成藏中发生了侧向运移.通源大断裂是油气运移的主要通道, 断层两盘的构造圈闭是油气聚集成藏的有利部位.苏仁诺尔构造带石油沿断裂向北东方向运移, 最大距离可达20 km.乌尔逊凹陷有3次成藏期, 其中距今100 Ma左右的伊敏组沉积末期是该区的主要成藏期.凹陷中随油藏与“烃源灶”距离的减小, 成藏期呈现逐渐变晚的趋势.      

论油气成藏流体动力系统

提出了油气成藏流体动力系统的概念和重力驱动型、压实驱动型、流体封存及滞流型油气成藏流体动力学系统类型的划分方案。流体动力系统类型的确定从盆地演化史分析和流体动力特征分析两方面来进行。油气成藏主要驱动力的相对重要性在重力驱动型、压实驱动型、流体封存型系统中不同,浮力在３类系统中都重要,水动力只在前两类中重要,而热力仅在第三类中发挥重要作用,地应力在第一和第三类系统中重要。油气成藏流体动力系统研究对油     

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