scholarly journals Origins and Geochemistry of Dolomites and Their Dissolution in the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation, Western Sichuan Basin, China

Minerals ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Shunli Zhang ◽  
Zhengxiang Lv ◽  
Yi Wen ◽  
Sibing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Sichuan Basin ◽  
Middle Triassic ◽  
Western Sichuan ◽  
Leikoupo Formation ◽  
Western Sichuan Basin

scholarly journals Sedimentary and Diagenetic Features and Their Impacts on Microbial Carbonate Reservoirs in the Fourth Member of the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation, Western Sichuan Basin, China

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2293
Author(s):  
Yuanchong Wang ◽  
Weimin Jiang ◽  
Hangyu Liu ◽  
Bo Liu ◽  
Haofu Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sichuan Basin ◽  
Depositional Environments ◽  
Sw China ◽  
Western Sichuan ◽  
Microbial Carbonates ◽  
Rock Types ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Leikoupo Formation ◽  
Western Sichuan Basin ◽  
Fourth Member

In recent years, the discovery of two gas fields in the fourth member of the Leikoupo Formation in the Western Sichuan Basin of SW China confirmed the exploration potential of microbial carbonates. The aim of the present study is to clarify the formation mechanism of the microbial reservoirs in the Leikoupo Formation. For this purpose, lithofacies, depositional environments, and diagenesis analyses were performed in samples collected from cores of 12 wells. The climate of study area was arid during Anisian time, and the water body was restricted. In such a climate, an evaporitic environment was developed, where ten types of lithofacies, dominated by microbial carbonates and gypsum rocks, were recognized. Thrombolites and stromatolites are the main high-quality reservoirs rock types in the fourth member of the Leikoupo Formation in the Western Sichuan Basin of SW China, which developed as microbial mounds, with reservoir space of microbial inter-clot pores, intra-clot pores, fenestral pores, inter-crystalline pores, and cracks. The microbial inter-clot pores are the main reservoir space, formed by trapping and binding of marls by benthic microbial communities. These pores were partially filled with evaporites because of the arid climate, which were subsequently dissolved (mainly gypsum) in the syn-depositional period, thus greatly improving the quality of reservoirs. Although some pores were occluded by multi-stage cements during the burial stage, major pores were well preserved own to the early dolomitization, rapid burial of the Leikoupo Formation, and early charging of hydrocarbon. The early dolomitization enhanced the anti-compaction ability of microbial carbonates during the burial stage. Rapid burial of the Leikoupo succession slowed down early cementation, and it also accelerated the maturation and expulsion process source rock to promote early charging of hydrocarbon in pores, which created a closed system, inhibiting strong burial cementation.

Diagenesis and its impact on a microbially derived carbonate reservoir from the Middle Triassic Leikoupo Formation, Sichuan Basin, China

AAPG Bulletin ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (12) ◽  
pp. 2599-2628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Jiang ◽  
Suyun Hu ◽  
Wenzhi Zhao ◽  
Zhaohui Xu ◽  
Shuyuan Shi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sichuan Basin ◽  
Middle Triassic ◽  
Carbonate Reservoir ◽  
Leikoupo Formation
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