Located in chinas xinjiang region, it is sometimes used synonymously to refer the southern half of the province, or nanjiang, as opposed to the northern half of the province known as dzungaria or beijiang. Ahlbrandt foreword this report was prepared as part of the world energy project of the u. It has an archeanearly neoproterozoic crystalline basement that is covered by thick sequence of late neoproterozoicquaternary sedimentary strata with multistage sedimentarytectonic evolution figure 1 b 25. A new classification of petroleum systems pss based on reservoir qualities is proposed.
Advances of petroleum exploration and geology research in west chinas petroliferous basins the geochemical characteristics of tazhong crude oils from the tarim basin, northwestern china yungan liang,1,2 jianbing xu,1,2 wenwen li,3 bin cheng,1 qian. It has an archeanearly neoproterozoic crystalline basement that is covered by thick sequence of late neoproterozoicquaternary sedimentary strata with multistage sedimentarytectonic evolution. Because of the shielding effect of the volcanic rocks to the underlying structure, the distribution of the volcanic rocks in tarim basin is very important to the deep oil and gas exploration. Lee abstract this report presents general information on the geology of the tarim basin with special emphasis on petroleum deposits. Some of the mummies are frequently associated with the presence of the indoeuropean tocharian languages in the tarim basin although the evidence is not totally conclusive. Thermal properties of sedimentary rocks in the tarim basin. Petroleum geology of the campos basin, brazil, a model for a producing atlantic type basin. Geological features and hydrocarbon accumulation in the. The entire range of hydrocarbons in bashituo oils from devonian and carboniferous reservoirs were investigated to determine their origin, as well as their alteration, mixing, and maturity using gas chromatography, gas chromatographymass spectrometry, and stable carbon isotope analysis.
The basin covers about 563,000 km2 with a basin fill of sediments amounting to 2,301,000. Oct 17, 20 recently, a largescale ordovician oil and gas pool has been discovered in xinken, north of the tarim basin, and it has strongly heterogeneous reservoirs and complicated fluid distribution. Petroleum geology and prospects of the tarim talimu basin, china. Sinian through permian tectonostratigraphic evolution of the northwestern tarim basin, china alan r.
The tarim basin is located in the xijiang uygur autonomous region of nw china, and covers an area of about 560,000 sq. Petroleum geology and exploration of tarim basin, china. The petroleum geology and resources of malaysia petronas. Catalytic hydropyrolysis of asphaltenes in marine oil from. Pdf evolution of the cenozoic tarim basin by flexural.
It is located in the xinjiang uyghur autonomous region in chinas far west. Chapter 33 neoproterozoic glaciogenic diamictites of the. Core to porescale characterization of heterogeneous petroleum geosystems. Chinas tarim basin is considered to be the last large onshore basin where giant oil and gas deposits remain to be discovered and developed. There are a lot of permian volcanic rocks which are widely distributed in tarim basin. Geological characteristics and shale gas distribution of carboniferous mudstones in the tarim basin, china article pdf available in acta geochimica 362 february 2017 with 332 reads. Petroleum geology and total petroleum systems of the widyan basin and interior platform of saudi arabia and iraq by james e. Tarim basin is a typical multicycle and multiplex basin, hydrocarbon generation history of lower palaeozoic source rock is characterized by secondary hydrocarbon generation. Southern xinjiang, as opposed to the northern half of the province known as dzungaria or beijiang. Rifting evolution, margin segmentation, and breakup. We classify pss into the following three basic types. Tectonic components of the tarim basin, including three uplifts and four depressions with eastwest orientations modified from.
Formation and aspects of petroleum geology article in journal of petroleum geology 151. Petroleum geology and total petroleum systems of the widyan. Recent marine and petroleum geology articles elsevier. The relationship between petroleum emplacement and carbonate reservoir quality. The range of secondary hydrocarbon generation of lower. The ordovician in yubei area is an important target and production layer of marine carbonate exploration in tarim basin. The tarim basin is believed to contain large potential reserves of petroleum and natural gas 493 methane comprises over 70 percent of the natural gas reserve, with variable contents of ethane tarim basin is considered to be the last large onshore basin where giant oil and gas deposits remain to be discovered and developed. The latest mendeley data datasets for marine and petroleum geology mendeley data repository is freetouse and open access. Structural characteristics and petroliferous features of. Tarim basin at 26 ma is set to the zero point of the abscissa in the reference system. Located in chinas xinjiang region, it is sometimes used synonymously to refer the southern half of the province, or nanjiang chinese. Petroleum geology and prospects of the tarim talimu. Marine and petroleum geology vol 15, issue 1, pages 1104. The main oil reservoirs are located in ordovician and carboniferous strata.
Its northern boundary is the tian shan mountain range and its southern is the kunlun mountains on. Chinas tarim basin is considered to be the last large onshore basin where giant. When they were graphically correlated against a composite standard database, paleontologic data sets from the carboniferous and lower permian of the western tarim basin revealed a punctuated stratigraphic succession in which most of geologic time is contained within regional hiatuses up. Marine and petroleum geology vol 112, february 2020. Based on the analyses of hydrocarbon inclusions, kar dating of authigenic illites and oilgaswater contact retrospection as well as other methods, the marine primary reservoirs in the cratonic region of the tarim basin are found to have been formed in the late caledonian to early hercynian, late hercynian, and himalayan, and oil and gas adjusted and redistributed in the. The sedimentary thickness in the basin reaches about 15 km and with an area of 560 000 km2, the basin is expected to contain giant oil and gas.
Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. Seismicbased volcano identification and characterization in. The tarim basin is an endorheic basin in northwest china occupying an area of about 1020000km2. Price new from used from hardcover, 1993 please retry. Marine and petroleum geology vol 28, issue 5, pages 959. Geology and hydrocarbon accumulation of the large ultra. The tarim basin, the largest basin located in the north of the tibetan plateau, northwestern china, has great hydrocarbon resource potential and is an ongoing target for industry exploration. Rare earth elements and yttrium rey geochemistry of. Statistical cluster analysis of the entire suite of tarim oils distinguishes at least seven genetic groups of oils. Old uyghur language used for book of omens, manichaeanism, buddhism 842c. Abstract the tarim basin in northwest china hosts petroleum reservoirs of cambrian, ordovician, carboniferous, triassic, jurassic, cretaceous and tertiary ages. Sedimentology, organic geochemistry, and petroleum. Journal of petroleum geology, july 2002 this work is refreshing and fundamentally clear in its historical presentation, scientific explanations, and logical organization.
Geochemistry and possible origin of crude oils from. Tarim basin synonyms, tarim basin pronunciation, tarim basin translation, english dictionary definition of tarim basin. The thermal evolution of source rocks in the paleozoic stratigraphic sequences has been an outstanding problem for petroleum exploration in the tarim basin, as the thermal history of the paleozoic could not be reconstructed objectively due to the lack of effective thermal indicators in the early paleozoic carbonate successions. Petroleum geochemistry and geology hunt pdf download.
Further recognition of petroleum exploration potential of. Salt tectonics american association of petroleum geologists. The tarim mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the tarim basin in presentday xinjiang, china, which date from 1800 bce to 200 ce. The tarim basin is one of the most important hydrocabonbearing evaporite basins in china. Geology of the tarim basin with special emphasis on petroleum deposits, xinjiang uygur zizhiqu, northwest china openfile report u. Structure and filling characteristics of paleokarst. Oil and gas exploration and development in tarim basin and. If the address matches an existing account you will receive an email with instructions to retrieve your username. Department of petroleum geology, faculty of earth resources, china university of geosciences. Four saltbearing sequences, the middle and lower cambrian, the mississippian, the paleogene, and the neogene, have various thickness and areal distribution. Tarim basin is a large complex sedimentary basin that suffered multiphase tectonic activities including volcanism and deformationinnwchinakangandkang,1994. The former study mostly refers to aspects such as principle and regular pattern.
Hunt, 9780716724414, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide selley r. Geology of the taritn basin with special emphasis on petroleum deposits, xinjiang uygur zizhiqu, northwest china by k. Sinian through permian tectonostratigraphic evolution of. The tarim basin is a large endorheic basin occupying an area of more than 400,000 km2 150,000 sq mi. Many research reports about stratigraphy, sedimentation, oilgeneration, tectonism and etc in the kalpin area are published, especially tectonism, which is much argued. Therefore the publication of this book describing one of the richest basins in the world, the south caspian basin, is welcome. Timing and history of marine hydrocarbon accumulation in. The tarim basin is the largest petroliferous basin in nw china, with an area of 560,000 km 2 figure 1a.
An arid basin of northwest china south of the tian shan and north of the kunlun mountains. However, the thermal properties of sedimentary rocks within the basin are yet to be systematically investigated at a basin scale, thereby limiting our. Neoproterozoic glaciogenic outcrops are mostly limited to the southwestern and northwestern margins of the tarim basin and the tianshan mountains. Hydrocarbon accumulation processes in the dabei tightgas reservoirs, kuqa subbasin, tarim basin, northwest china. Geology of the tarim basin with special emphasis on petroleum. Lop nur is a marshy, saline depression at the east end of the tarim basin. Petroleum geology of the south caspian basin 1st edition. Molecular organic geochemistry of the tarim basin, northwest china. Ordos basin and turpan basin suggest suboxic conditions. Chang department of geological and environmental sciences, stanford university, stanford, california 94305 usa cleavy. Carbon and strontium isotopes and global correlation of cambrian series 2series 3 carbonate rocks in the keping area of the northwestern tarim basin, nw china xiaolin wang, wenxuan hu, suping yao, qi chen, xiaomin xie. They are important detachment layers and intensely affect the structural deformation in the basin.
It is a large composite basin comprising a paleozoic craton and mesocenozoic foreland basins. The tarim basin is believed to contain large potential reserves of petroleum and natural gas493 methane comprises over 70 percent of the natural gas reserve, with variable contents of ethane petroleum exploration and development practice shows that the rich oil and gas resources in kuqa depression, especially natural gas resource potential zhao mj and zhang bm, 2002. Oil source rock potential of the lacustrine jurassic sim uuju formation, west korea bay basin part ii. Buriedeuxenicbasin model sets tarim basin potential. Feb 06, 2018 842 ce, uyghurs, speaking a turkish language, enter tarim basin after destruction of their kingdom in kazakhstan. Recently, she focuses on marine geology and petroleum geology, including sedimentology, geochemistry and natural gas hydrate geology. Only two glaciogenic diamictites are recorded in the neoproterozoic successions from the tielikeli and aksuwusi areas of the tarim basin. Multiscale cm to subnm 2d and 3d imaging of mancos shale with correlative light, xray, electron, and ion microscopy j. The uthhe thermochronometry of apatite and zircon has.
This study provides a better understanding for the petroleum geology, and reduces the risks on hydrocarbon exploitation in this basin. Nomenclature, boundaries and petroleum geology, a new proposal andres pardo1, 3 dario barrero2 carlos a. The north and southwest depressions of tarim are underlain by thick sediments and very thin crust. Using the modern tectonic geology theories and methods such as the plate tectonic analysis, the paleostructure analysis, the structurallithofacies analysis, and the fault related fold and petroleum system, and combining with the seismic data, well drilling data and the circumferential field geology, study on the structural characteristics and petroleum prospect in the tarim basin has been. The mummies of tarim basin xinjiang province of china. The basin entraps oil and gas resources of both marine and continental facies, which are difficult to tap due to large burial depth 32006500m, high formation pressure 3465mpa for oilfields, and 32128mpa for gas fields and high temperature 110140. We conducted organic geochemical analyses on the largest suite of oils and sourcerock extracts from the tarim basin, northwest china, currently available. Twelve thousand km 2d seismic, 4500 kmsup 2 3d seismic, and 200 exploratory wells have been completed. Tarim basin definition of tarim basin by the free dictionary. Carroll department of geology and geophysics, 1215 west dayton street, madison, wisconsin 53706 usa stephan a. Using the modern tectonic geology theories and methods such as the plate tectonic analysis, the paleostructure analysis, the structurallithofacies analysis, and the fault related fold and petroleum system, and combining with the seismic data, well drilling data and the circumferential field geology, study on the structural characteristics and petroleum prospect in the tarim basin. This basin is a typical basin of marine oil production in china, with the tazhong and tabei uplifts being the major production areas. Mechanisms of basin formation have varied throughout this time, caused by frequent tectonic movements along the southern margin of the eurasian plate. Tarim basin hardcover january 1, 1993 by xie hong editor author see all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
Similarly, the tarim basin has several potential petroleum source rocks, including cambrian ordovician, carboniferous, and possibly cretaceous marine rocks, as well as permian and jurassic nonmarine rocks fan et al. Molecular organic geochemistry of the tarim basin, northwest. The paleokarst outcrops in the liuhuang valley are located in the bachu arch, which is approximately 50 km north of bachu city. Giant oil and gas fields of the decade 19781988 articlechapter. Tarim basin, chinese pinyin talimu pendi, wadegiles romanization talimu penti, vast depression drained by the tarim river in the uygur autonomous region of xinjiang, western china, covering about 350,000 square miles 906,500 square km and enclosed by the tien shan mountains to the north, the pamirs to the west, the kunlun mountains to the south, and the altun mountains to the. For this project, the world was divided into eight regions and 937 geologic provinces.
Asia bitumens cenozoic clastic rocks china geochemistry far east mesozoic paleogene paleozoic petroleum tarim basin tertiary mudstone oil and gas fields sedimentary rocks xinjiang china. Through analyzing oil, gas and water samples collected from this area, in combination of field production and testing data, this study reveals that the xinken oil pool contains dominantly normal oil. Petroleum geology of the south caspian basin buryakovsky, l. Oil and gas exploration and development achievements in tarim basin tarim basin lies in the south of xinjiang vygur autonomous region of china with an acreage of 560. Main diagenesis of middlelower ordovician of yubei area. Marine and petroleum geology vol 102, pages 1914 april. The tarim basin is an endorheic basin in northwest china occupying an area of about 1,020,000 km 2 390,000 sq mi. The lower diamictite from the polong formation in the tielikeli area is c. Download or read online petroleum geochemistry and geology hunt book in our. Geology of the ahuas area in the mosquitia basin of honduras. In order to understand the reservoir distribution and therefore to promote exploration, by means of analysis of cores, rock sections, casting sections, logging data of ordovician carbonate reservoirs in the yubei area, the reservoir petrology, diagenesis types and. Hydrocarbon accumulation processes in the dabei tightgas. The tahe oilfield is located in the northern uplift of the tarim basin. Background of the oilfield hd oilfield is located in the center of tarim basin, china figure 1.
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