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Discussion on Genetic Types and Sources of Natural Gas in Y5 Well Area on the North Slope of Baiyun Sag

Version 1 : Received: 27 September 2023 / Approved: 16 October 2023 / Online: 16 October 2023 (02:48:19 CEST)

How to cite: Peng, G.; Liu, J.; Wang, X.; Zhang, L.; Chen, C.; Sun, H.; Li, J.; Huang, Y. Discussion on Genetic Types and Sources of Natural Gas in Y5 Well Area on the North Slope of Baiyun Sag. Preprints 2023, 2023100617. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0617.v1 Peng, G.; Liu, J.; Wang, X.; Zhang, L.; Chen, C.; Sun, H.; Li, J.; Huang, Y. Discussion on Genetic Types and Sources of Natural Gas in Y5 Well Area on the North Slope of Baiyun Sag. Preprints 2023, 2023100617. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202310.0617.v1

Abstract

In recent years, the genesis of natural gas and the definition of major gas source rocks in the Baiyun Sag of the Pearl River Mouth Basin have attracted extensive attention from scholars. There is still considerable controversy over the genesis and the main gas source rocks of natural gas. In this study, the chemical kinetics method of natural gas generation and carbon isotope fractionation was used to study the generation history and isotope evolution history of Paleogene natural gas in the Y5 well area located on the north slope of Baiyun Sag. And other geochemical discriminant methods were applied simultaneously to determine the type and source rocks of natural gas. The results show that the natural gas in the Y5 well area on the northern slope of Baiyun Sag is mainly kerogen degradation gas, mixed with a small amount of oil cracking gas. The mixture of kerogen degradation gas and a small amount of crude oil cracking gas caused the inversion of the carbon isotope sequence of ethane and propane. The natural gas in the Y5 well area mainly comes from delta–shallow lacustrine facies source rock. The high–quality reservoirs in the shallower strata accumulate natural gas generated in the early stage, and the tight reservoirs in the deeper strata mainly accumulate natural gas generated in the late stage.

Keywords

Baiyun Sag; thermal simulation experiment; hydrocarbon generation kinetics; carbon isotope fractionation; natural gas genesis

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Geochemistry and Petrology

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