Reservoir characteristics and hydrocarbon accumulation of Carboniferous volcanic weathered crust of Zhongguai high area in the western Junggar Basin, China

Abstract

Based on the drilling, cores, logs, seismic, laboratory analysis and so on, reservoir characteristics and hydrocarbon accumulation of Carboniferous volcanic weathered crust in Zhongguai high area are studied. Volcanic rocks were formed in an island arc environment. The lithology is mainly andesite and tuff; Reservoir spaces are mainly secondary pore, fracture and their combination forms, fractures have a better effect on reservoir seepage; There are four layer structures of volcanic weathered crust, weathered clay layer, strongly weathered zone, weakly weathered zone and unweathered zone and strongly weathered zone is the best, which is the main reservoir development zone; The development of reservoir is mainly affected by weathering-leaching, lithology and lithofacies, and fault (fracture); Effective reservoirs could reach to 480 m thickness (high quality reservoirs are within 240 m). Carboniferous volcanic reservoirs are distributed along three zones, which are near the fault zone, high structural part, favorable lithofacies development zone, and one plane, which is near the unconformity.