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Zhong-kai Bai, Xiu-xiang Lü, Zong-xu Song, Hai-jun Qiu, Xin-gui Zhou, Yong-jin Gao, Ying-min Qi, Li-chun Zhu, Xiao-tao Fu, Yuan-yuan Zhou, 2019. Characteristics of boundary fault systems and its hydrocarbon controlling on hydrocarbon accumulation in Awati Sag, Tarim Basin, China, China Geology, 2, 94-107. doi: 10.31035/cg2018095
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Characteristics of boundary fault systems and its hydrocarbon controlling on hydrocarbon accumulation in Awati Sag, Tarim Basin, China
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Abstract
Based on the interpretation of two-dimensional seismic data, this paper analyzes the characteristics of three boundary fault systems including the Shajingzi fault, the Aqia fault and the Tumuxiuke fault around the Awati sag of the Tarim Basin, and studies its controlling on hydrocarbon accumulation. Neotectonic movement is ubiquitous in oil and gas bearing basins in China, such as Neogene intense activities of large boundary thrusting faults of the Awati sag: Shajingzi fault, Aqia fault and Tumuxiuke fault. Based on a large number of seismic data, it is showed that they have section wise characteristics in the direction of fault strike, and active periods and associated structures formed of different sections are different. Usually, large anticlinal structures are formed in the upper wall, and faulted anticline controlled by companion faults are formed in the bottom wall. Large faults cut the strata from Cambrian up to Neogene. For the anticline in the upper wall, fault activities caused by neotectonic movement played a destructive role in hydrocarbon accumulation, thus the preservation condition is critical for reservoir formation. In this sense, attention should be paid to formations in the upper walls of Aqia fault and Tumuxiuke fault under the Cambrian salt bed, whose plastic deformation could help to heal faults. Companion faults in the bottom wall cut down to the Cambrian and up to the Triassic serving as the pathway for hydrocarbon migration, and associated structures in the bottom wall are noteworthy exploration targets.
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Keywords:
- Neotectonic movement /
- Boundary fault /
- Reservoir forming control /
- Awati sag /
- Tarim Basin
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Figure 1.
The distribution of boundary faults of Awati sag, China.
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Figure 2.
Sections of Shajingzi fault belt. a–Poststack time migration section AN05-324; b–poststack time migration section TLM-Z15; c–poststack time migration section A98-438 (Their location, length and direction are shown in Fig. 1; the faults in the figures are all reverse faults).
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Figure 3.
Structural evolvement section of Shajingzi fault belt (the faults in the figures are all reverse faults).
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Figure 4.
Sections of Aqia fault belt. a–Poststack time migration section AN05-160; b–poststack time migration section AN05-144; c–poststack time migration section AN05-128 (Their location, length and direction are shown in Fig. 1; the faults in the figures are all reverse faults).
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Figure 5.
Structural evolvement section of Aqia fault belt.
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Figure 6.
Sections of Tumuxiuke fault belt. a–Poststack time migration section AN05-96; b–poststack time migration section AN05-160; the faults in the figures are all reverse faults.
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Figure 7.
Sections of Tumuxiuke fault belt. a–poststack time migration section AN05-188; b–poststack time migration section AN05-232 (Their location, length and direction are shown in Fig. 1; the faults in the figures are all reverse faults).
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Figure 8.
Structural evolvement section of Tumuxiuke fault belt (The faults in the figures are all reverse faults).
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Figure 9.
Poststack time migration section AN05-L1 (across Fang1; the faults in the figures are all reverse faults)).
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Figure 10.
Distribution characteristics of terpene and sterane between the extractive in Triassic sandstone reservoir of Shanan 1 well and Middle-Upper Ordovician source rock in Tazhong 12 well.