Xinjiang Petroleum Geology ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (3): 253-260.doi: 10.7657/XJPG20220301

• OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION •     Next Articles

Practices and Cognitions of Petroleum Exploration in Mesozoic,Ordos Basin

LUO Anxiang1,2a(), YU Jian1,2a, LIU Xianyang1,2a, JIAO Chuangyun2, HAN Tianyou2, CHU Meijuan2   

  1. 1. Changqing Oilfield Company,PetroChina,Xi'an,Shaanxi 710018,China
    2. PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company,a.National Engineering Laboratory of Exploration and Development for Low Permeability Oil and Gas Field; b.Research Institute of Exploration and Development,Xi'an,Shaanxi 710018,China
  • Received:2021-11-26 Revised:2021-12-21 Online:2022-06-01 Published:2022-05-26

Abstract:

The Ordos basin is the second largest sedimentary basin in China with abundant oil and gas resources and broad exploration prospects. Typical low-permeability-tight oil reservoirs are develpoed in the Triassic Yanchang formation in the basin,which are difficult to explore. Through continously geological researches on the Mesozoic oil reservoirs in the Ordos basin over the past 50 years,some theories about hydrocarbon accumulation in Jurassic reservoir groups,in large-scale lithologic reservoirs in inland depression lake basins and in continental shales have been formed. By virtue of three strategic shifts,four conventional hydrocarbon provinces with reserves exceeding 10×108 t and a successive zone with shale oil reserves of 20×108 t have been discovered. The proven oil reserves have increased by an average of over 3×108 t per year for 10 consecutive years. Thus,Changqing oilfield in Ordos basin has become an oil and gas province with the fastest increase in reserves and production in China and contributed 12.5% of China's annual oil production,which provides a reference for the petroleum exploration in other similar basins.

Key words: Ordos basin, Mesozoic, Triassic, Jurassic, lake basin, exploration enlightenment, exploration prospect

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