The reservoir characteristics research of Devonian Jinbaoshi Formation, Northwest Sichuan Basin, SW China

Abstract

A great breakthrough was achieved on the Middle Devonian's oil-gas exploration in the Longmenshan area in northwestern Sichuan. However, only the Guanwushan Formation was researched in detail. The underlying formation -Jinbaoshi Formation as a set of the potential well reservoir and its reservoir characteristics have not been discussed. Based on the section's fine description, thin section analysis, and core borehole logging, combined with petrophysical analysis, the reservoir characteristics, controlling factors, and evolution process of the Jinbaoshi Formation reservoir in the Longmenshan area are deeply studied in this paper. The results showed that the Jinbaoshi Formation has developed a set of sand-shale interbedding deposit of terrigenous clastic and carbonate rocks. The reservoir lithology is mainly quartz sandstone and calcareous quartz sandstone. The quartz sandstone reservoir has good physical properties, but the calcareous quartz sandstone has the characteristics of strong heterogeneity, low porosity, and permeability. Residual intergranular pores are mainly developed in the reservoir space. And the development of intercrystalline pores and intergranular dissolved pores can also be seen, but the development frequency is low, and the scale is small. Among them, the Devonian Jinbaoshi Formation quartz sandstone's average porosity is about 8%, and the highest is 18.43%. The main diagenesis types of the Jinbaoshi Formation are compaction, recrystalization, and dissolution. Compaction is the main reason for the destruction of original pores, and dissolution is the main driving force for later porosity and permeability improvement. Rock fragments, calcareous silty clasts, and bioclastic grains are the main dissolution objects. The formation of intergranular dissolved pores significantly improves the physical properties of the reservoir. Therefore, the reservoir development of the Jinbaoshi Formation is mainly controlled both by favourable sedimentary facies and diagenesis. Quartz sandstone and calcareous sandstone of the Jinbaoshi Formation were controlled by early sedimentary facies in the syngenetic rock stage and developed more early intergranular pores; in the early diagenesis stage, compaction-pressure solution and cementation resulted in residual intergranular pores. In the middle-late diagenesis stage, the calcareous cement is dissolved, and more pores were formed.

Keywords

Northwest Sichuan basin / Middle Devonian / Jinbaoshi Formation / Quartz sandstone / Calcareous quartz sandstone / Diagenesis / Reservoir space

Declaration of competing interests

The authors declare that they have no conflict of interests.

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the PetroChina Innovation Foundation (2018D-5007-0105), Open Experiment Funding of Southwest Petroleum University(2020KSZ02018, 2020KSP02025).

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