Abstract
In order to better understand pore–throat structure characteristics, the coupling relationship between micropore–throat structure and macro reservoir quality and influencing factors caused by authigenic minerals were studied. Petrographic analyses, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), pressure-controlled mercury injection (PMI), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were performed on a suite of tight reservoir samples from the Chang 8 Member of the Upper Triassic Yanchang Formation in the southwestern Ordos Basin, China. The results show that the pore–throat sizes obtained with the combination of PMI and NMR methods varied from nano- to microscale, revealing pore–throat sizes ranging from 0.001 μm to 70 μm, and showing that pore–throats with a radius larger than 1.0 μm are rare. Larger pore–throats with good connectivity (>rapex) account for a smaller part of the total pore volume, ranging from approximately 7.58% to 38.90% with an average of 22.77%, but account for more than 80% of contributions to permeability. The effective movable fluid porosity (φemp) measured by NMR, ranging from approximately 0.10% to 7.07% with an average of 2.56%, had a positive contribution to permeability. The contents of chlorite occurrence state, other than illite, are beneficial to pore–throat preservation. A new reservoir evaluation scheme of the Chang 8 reservoir is established. These research results provide a theoretical basis for the evaluation and development of tight sandstone oil and gas exploration.
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