Evaluation of dolomite reservoirs in the Longwangmiao Formation, Lower Cambrian in Northern Sichuan basin, China

• Main Authors: Xuefei Yang, Yaping Wang, Xingzhi Wang, Deming Zeng, Longbo Xu, Zisang Huang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2017-12-01
• Series: Petroleum
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405656117300731

With the extended petroleum exploration of the carbonate reservoir in the Longwangmiao Formation, Lower Cambrian in Sichuan basin, looking for a new favorable exploration area is the primary task in current exploration. This paper focusing on the dolomite reservoir in the Longwangmiao Formation in the Northern Sichuan basin, will evaluate the reservoir conditions, including reservoir lithology, reservoir spaces, physical properties and other basic characteristics. Combined with sedimentary environment study and diagenesis analysis, the genetic mechanism of Longwangmiao reservoir in study area will be discussed. It indicates that the reservoir rocks of Longwangmiao Formation in the study area are composed of dolarenite and crystalline dolomite, and the main reservoir spaces are intergranular dissolved pores, intragranular dissolved pores and intercrystalline dissolved pores. However, most of dissolved pores have been filled with bitumen, which lead to the reservoir properties very poor, both the porosity and permeability are worse than that of central Sichuan basin, so the reservoir in the Longwangmiao Formation in the Northern Sichuan basin is low-porosity and low-permeability reservoir. During the Early Cambrian Longwangmiao period, the study was near the old-land, and the energy of sea water was not enough to deposit many grain shoals, which cause the sediments are small with lots of quartz and muds. Moreover, because lacking of large scale karstification in the late diagenesis, there isn't much dissolved pores and vugs develop in the Longwangmiao Formation. Some Intergranular dissolved pores and intercrystalline dissolved pores formed by the early atmosphere water dissolved exist as some reservoir spaces, but most of them have been filled with bitumen, which was residual when the ancient oil reservoir transformed. Above factors cause the Longwangmiao Formation in the Northern Sichuan basin become not a very favorable reservoir in Sichuan basin. Keywords: Reservoir evaluation, Dolomites, Longwangmiao Formation, Northern Sichuan basin