The Ordos Basin
Sedimentological Research for Hydrocarbons Exploration
- 1st Edition - November 29, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editors: Renchao Yang, A.J. (Tom) Van Loon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 2 6 4 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 5 2 6 5 - 4
The Ordos Basin: Sedimentological Research for Hydrocarbons Exploration provides an overview of sedimentological approaches used in the lacustrine Ordos Basin (but also applic… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe Ordos Basin: Sedimentological Research for Hydrocarbons Exploration provides an overview of sedimentological approaches used in the lacustrine Ordos Basin (but also applicable in other marine and lacustrine basins) to make hydrocarbon exploration more efficient. Oil exploration is becoming increasingly focused on tight sandstone reservoirs and shales. The development of these reservoirs, particularly regarding the sedimentary processes and the resulting sediments, are still poorly understood. Exploration and exploitation of such reservoirs requires new insights into the lateral and vertical facies changes, and as already indicated above, the knowledge surrounding facies and how they change in deep-water environments is still relatively unclear.
- Covers several geological aspects so the reader may well understand the context of the various chapters
- Explores and explains the important relationship between sedimentology and hydrocarbon explorations
- Highlights the significance of sedimentological aspects (facies, porosity, etc.) for basin analysis and the development of energy resources
Oil and gas exploring companies; university departments of petroleum industry and of sedimentology. University departments aimed at geological mapping, stratigraphy, sedimentology, applied geology
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Sedimentological research for hydrocarbons exploration in the Ordos Basin: Preface
- Chapter 1: Sedimentary and tectonic development of the Ordos Basin and its hydrocarbon potential
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Basin development
- 3: The Mesozoic Ordos Basin
- 4: Energy resources
- References
- Section A: Relationships between tectonics, sedimentology, diagenesis, and hydrocarbon reservoirs
- Chapter 2: The collision between the North China Block and the South China Block, and the resulting event beds in the Triassic Yanchang Formation (southern Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Types of soft-sediment deformation structures
- 4: The trigger of the soft-sediment deformation
- 5: Discussion
- 6: Importance for hydrocarbons exploration
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: Origin and evolution of dolomite reservoirs in the Ordovician Majiagou Formation, Central and Eastern Ordos Basin, NW China
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Reservoir characteristics
- 4: Diagenesis
- 5: Diagenetic evolution
- 6: Formation of the below-salt dolomite reservoir
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4: Depositional model and diagenetic evolution of hydrocarbon reservoirs in deep dolomites of the Ordos Basin, China
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Sampling and analytical methods
- 4: Results
- 5: Discussion
- 6: Significance for exploration in other intracratonic basins
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 5: Facies shifts in the Ordos Basin (China) along the southern and western margins of the North China Plate as a result of plate tectonics
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: Facies analysis
- 5: Paleogeographical development
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Model
- 8: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6: Evolution during the Permian from a marine to a continental setting, south-eastern Ordos Basin, China
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: Facies analysis
- 5: Sequence stratigraphy
- 6: Stable isotopes
- 7: Analysis and discussion
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 7: Hydrocarbon accumulations in the Permian Shanxi Formation (Ordos Basin, China) as controlled by sedimentary heterogeneities
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Modeling techniques
- 4: Sedimentary heterogeneity of the Shanxi Formation
- 5: Modeling of the petroleum system
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8: Subsidence of the Mesozoic Ordos Basin and resulting migration of depocenters
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Depo- and accumulation centers and their migration in the Mesozoic Ordos Basin
- 3: Subsidence centers and their origin
- 4: Conclusions
- References
- Section B: The role of diagenesis in gas fields
- Chapter 9: Chlorite coatings of quartz grains and the implications for Permian gas reservoirs in the Ordos Basin (China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Results
- 4: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 10: Gas geochemistry indicates Ordovician marine micrites as the main source rock of natural gas in a weathered limestone reservoir (Jingbian Gas Field, Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Sample collection and gas analysis
- 4: Analytical results
- 5: A nonorganic vs. a humic source
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Significance for gas exploration
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 11: The influence of diagenesis on low-porosity, low-permeability gas reservoirs in the Sulige Gas Field (Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Geology of the gas reservoir rocks
- 4: Materials and methods
- 5: Reservoir lithology
- 6: Diagenetic characteristics
- 7: Diagenetic conditions as revealed by fluid inclusions
- 8: Diagenetic evolution
- 9: Pore types and petrophysical reservoir properties
- 10: Significance for gas exploration and exploitation
- 11: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 12: Diagenetically induced heterogeneity of tight gas reservoirs near Zizhou (Ordos Basin, eastern China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: Results
- 5: Discussion
- 6: Implications for the prediction of reservoir quality
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Section C: Understanding facies problems
- Chapter 13: Facies distribution in the Ordovician Pingliang Formation (southern Ordos Basin, China) and the role of turbidity currents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geographical and geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: Lithofacies and lithofacies associations
- 5: Interpretation of the lithofacies and their associations
- 6: Facies distribution
- 7: Discussion
- 8: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 14: When turbidity currents cross contour currents: a struggle for life in the Ordovician along the southern margin of the Ordos Basin (China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: Sedimentology of the Longxian section
- 5: Analysis of the reworked turbidites at Longxian
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 15: Predicting the spatial distribution of sandy mass-flow deposits in deep basins by analysis of mud-coated structures
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological and geographical setting
- 3: Mud-coated structures
- 4: Origin of the mud-coated structures
- 5: Sedimentological significance
- 6: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Section D: Focus on the Yanchang Formation
- Chapter 16: Lacustrine sequence stratigraphy: New insights from the study of the Yanchang Formation (Middle-Late Triassic), Ordos Basin, China
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: Results
- 5: Discussion
- 6: Towards a comprehensive evolutionary model for lacustrine basins: Key understanding from the Yanchang Formation
- 7: Concluding remarks
- References
- Chapter 17: The origin of hyperpycnites in the Middle-Late Triassic Yanchang Fm. (Ordos Basin, China) and their significance for the formation of unconventional hydrocarbons
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Sedimentology
- 4: Core analysis
- 5: Sedimentary evolution
- 6: Distribution of the hyperpycnites in space and time
- 7: Hyperpycnite lobes in seismic profiles
- 8: Implications for unconventional oil exploration
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 18: Influence of diagenesis on reservoir properties of the Chang 2 Oil Member of the Yanchang Formation in the Zhidan Oil Field (Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Methods
- 3: Diagenesis
- 4: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 19: Slurry deposits in cores from the Middle-Late Triassic Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Deformation structures in the cores
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 6: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 20: Late Triassic tectono-volcanic activity and resulting soft-sediment deformation structures in the Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods
- 4: The soft-sediment deformation structures
- 5: Distribution of the SSDS in space
- 6: Trigger mechanisms of the SSDS
- 7: Overview of lake evolution
- 8: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 21: Middle-Late Triassic muddy gravity-flow deposits in the Ordos Basin (China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Types, facies, and depositional processes of the mudstones
- 4: Soft-sediment deformation structures
- 5: Environmental interpretation
- 6: Transport and depositional processes
- 7: Geological significance
- 8: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 22: Debrite/turbidite transitions in the Chang 6 Oil Member of the Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China)
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geographical and geological setting
- 3: Lithofacies of the Chang 6 Oil Member
- 4: Discussion
- 5: Depositional model
- 6: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 23: Reservoir quality of the Middle-Late Triassic Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin) as controlled by sedimentology and diagenesis
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Sample collection and research methods
- 4: Results
- 5: Factors influencing the reservoir quality
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 24: The significance for unconventional petroleum exploration of a good classification system for gravity-flow deposits, with examples from the Yanchang Formation
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: A new classification scheme for gravity-flow deposits
- 3: Application of the classification scheme to gravity-flow deposits in the Triassic Yanchang Formation
- 4: Methods
- 5: The variety of gravity-flow deposits
- 6: Discussion
- 7: Significance for hydrocarbon exploration
- 8: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 25: Quality of tight sandstone reservoirs in gravity-flow deposits of the deep-lacustrine Yanchang Formation (Ordos Basin, China) as controlled by diagenesis
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Geological setting
- 3: Methods and data
- 4: Petrological characteristics of the sandstones
- 5: Lithofacies
- 6: Diagenesis
- 7: Diagenetic evolution
- 8: Controls of the reservoir quality
- 9: Conclusions
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 29, 2021
- No. of pages (Paperback): 532
- No. of pages (eBook): 532
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323852647
- eBook ISBN: 9780323852654
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Renchao Yang
Dr. Renchao Yang is a professor at the Laboratory for Marine Mineral Resources, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology and at the Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization & Sedimentary Mineral of Shandong University of Science and Technology. He studied sedimentology and petroleum geology. He focuses on tight sandstone reservoirs, gravity-flow deposits and soft-sediment deformation structures of the Triassic Yanchang Formation, and on the Permian Sulige Gas Field in the Ordos Basin now for 20 years. He received 20 research grants in this field and published some 90 articles, both in English and in Chinese. Two of them (published in AAPG Bulletin, 2017, and in the Journal of Geodynamics, 2019) are highly cited.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Shandong University of Science and Technology, ChinaAV
A.J. (Tom) Van Loon
A.J. (Tom) van Loon studied geology in Leiden (Netherlands), where he received his Ph.D. in 1972 for a thesis on the sedimentological development of a Carboniferous intramontaneous basin in Spain. He held various positions in academia and industry, and was a professor of Geology at the University of Silesia (Katowice, Poland) and the Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland), and is currently visiting professor at the Shandong University of Science and Technology (Qingdao, China). His main interests are soft-sediment deformation, basin analysis and mass flows. Currently he is involved in the sedimentological analysis of hydrocarbon occurrences in China. He authored, co-authored and edited several books and around 200 scientific publications. He held numerous editorial positions. He is an Honorary Member of the Geological and Mining Society of The Netherlands.
Affiliations and expertise
Visiting Professor, Shandong University of Science and Technology, ChinaRead The Ordos Basin on ScienceDirect