Recovery of the Erosion Thickness and Characterization of the Paleogeomorphology in the Southern Lishui Sag, East China Sea Shelf Basin

The restoration of the denudation thickness is the basis for quantitatively analyzing the basin burial history,thermal evolution history and hydrocarbon accumulation conditions.The well data is not sufficient to do this in the southern Lishui Sag with only 5 wells,so the new,high-quality three-dimensional(3D)seismic data is essential.The methods employed to determine the eroded thicknesses of key unconformities in the study area are the mudstone acoustic time difference(AC)method,vitrinite reflectance(Ro%)method and stratigraphic trend comparison method.On the basis of the structural evolution,the restoration of the paleogeomorphology is carried out.The results show that the Wenzhou formation(E2 w)in the entire study area has been all denuded.The denudation thickness is in the range of 0–550 m,and decreases gradually from west,thicker than 200 m,to east.The erosion of the upper Lingfeng formation(E1l)are mainly occurred in the N-P-1 structural trap(N-P-1),the N-P-2 structural trap(N-P-2)and the N-P-3 structural trap(N-P-3).Among them,the eroded area in N-P-1(near well S-1)and N-P-2 is 200–230 km^2,and the denudation thickness is 0–600 m,which increases from south to north,even up to 200–400 m in the region around well S-1.In N-P-3,the extent of denudation is 30–50 km^2,and the denudation thickness is 0–400 m.In the early stage of the upper E1 l,one north-south strike slip fault began to develop in the southern study area.Affected by this fault,the southern Lingfeng bulge was offset,forming a gorge,and the eastern and western sides of the concave belt connected to each other.On the basis of the paleo-geomorphological characteristics,it is shown that the sedimentary center of the west subsag began to migrate to the south.

Burial History and Petroleum Entrapment in the Yaoyingtai Region of the Changling Fault Depression, China

This work aims to reconstruct the burial history of various kinds of sandstones penetrated by the well YS201 in the Yaoyingtai region of the Changling Fault Depression, southern Songliao Basin, China. Analyses of fluid inclusions in the reservoir rocks, combined with a review of the regional tectonic evolution, revealed the hydrocarbon accumulation stage and accumulation age of the Early Cretaceous Denglouku group and the first member of the Quantou group reservoir, which are the future exploration focus for deep gas reservoirs in this region. Acoustic time data and sedimentary rates calculated for sediments in the YS201 well yielded thicknesses for the Yingcheng, Nenjiang, and Mingshui groups of 506, 539.18, and 144.85 m, respectively, thereby revealing the burial history of the sediments in the well. Fluid inclusions of the Denglouku group reservoir and the first member of the Quantou group reservoir contain oil inclusions and hydro-carbonaceous salt water inclusions. The main peaks of the homogenization temperature and salinity of these saltwater inclusions in the first member of the Quantou group reservoir are generally 110-120℃ and 6wt%-8wt%, respectively, and for the Denglouku group are 130-140oc and 4wt%-6wt%. The data for both reservoirs show only one main peak, indicating that they both have experienced single-stage accumulation. Combining the homogenization temperature of the reservoir fluid inclusions with the burial and thermal history of the sediments in the YS201 well, we infer that the hydrocarbon gas in these two intervals accumulated at 79 Ma （middle Late Cretaceous）.

Mesozoic Tectonic Evolution and Thermal History of the Yuanba Area of Northeast Sichuan Basin-Low-Temperature Thermochronology of Apatite and Zircon

By means of the vitrinite reflectance and U-Th/He dating of apatite and zircon in cut- ting samples from the T3x-K1j formations in the Yuanba （元坝） area of Northeast Sichuan （四川） Basin, a correlation has been established between the He-derived age and depth/temperature in this area assuming helium closure temperature of apatite in this area being 95 ℃. Mesozoic strata （T3x-Kd＇） experienced helium closure temperature of apatite approaching 95 ℃, but didn＇t reach the helium closure temperature of zircon （ca. 170-190 ℃） although some reached the highest pa- laeogeothermal temperature of about 170 ℃. The Mesozoic strata in the Yuanba area experienced an important uplift and denudation during Paleogene-Neogene periods （0.2-36.4 Ma）, the erosion rate being about 109.9 m/Ma. The K1] Formation and overlying strata experienced a maximum de- nudation loss of about 4 000 m. Geotemperatures gradually fell to the helium closure temperature of apatite and then fell further to the current temperature. The thermal evolution history of this area indicates that the maximum palaeogeothermal temperature of Mesozoic strata was close to 170- 190 ℃, prior to the strata being uplifted. During the period between 176 and 36 Ma, the palaeogeo- thermal temperature fell to 95-170 ℃. and after 36 Ma, it continued to fall to the present geotem- perature of less than 95 ℃.