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STUDY ON THE ORGANIC MATTER ACCUMULATION MECHANISM OF EARLY CAMBRIAN MARINE SHALE: A CASE STUDY OF JXY1 WELL IN LOWER YANGTZE REGION, SOUTH CHINA


ZHANG, Kun1, PENG, Jun2, CHENG, Sihong3, LI, Bin4, LIU, Weiwei5, WEN, Ming6, LIU, Xiaoxue7, YANG, Yiming2, ZENG, Yao2, JI, Xin2, LI, Xiang2 and YANG, Peng2, (1)School of Geoscience and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China; State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China, (2)School of Geoscience and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China, (3)Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China; State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu, 610059, China; Jiangxi Provincial Shale Gas Investment Company, Ltd, Nanchang, 330000, China, (4)State Key Laboratory of Shale Oil and Gas Enrichment Mechanisms and Effective Development, SINOPEC, Wuxi, 214162, China; School of Geoscience and Technology, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, 610500, China, (5)Jiangxi Provincial Shale Gas Investment Company, Ltd, Nanchang, 330000, China, (6)State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Beijing, 102249, China; Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, Beijing, 102249, China, (7)Unconventional Natural Gas Institute, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, Beijing, 102249, China; State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, Beijing, 102249, China

The abundance of organic matter in shales, which has a direct effect on the hydrocarbon generation potential of shales, is an important organic geochemical parameter for evaluating shale gas reservoirs. The total organic carbon content (TOC content) in shale is controlled by the abundance of original sedimentary organic matter. Therefore, it is very important to study the mechanism of organic matter enrichment in shale. In this paper, the Lower Cambrian marine shales from the Lower Yangtze region are selected as the research subject, most of which originate from a typical area well called Well JXY1. The degree of pyritization (DOP) is used to characterize the redox environment of the water body, while the P/Al ratio is used to analyze the biological productivity of paleo-seawater. The paleo-salinity of seawater is calculated via carbon and oxygen isotope analysis. In addition, the early Cambrian hydrothermal activities were studied by using core description; Si, Al, Fe, and Mn elemental analysis; and oxygen isotope calculations. The results show that during the early Cambrian Wangyinpu sedimentary period, the seawater was an anaerobic water body with H2S, and the oxygen concentration was approximately 0 mL/L. In the middle stages of the Wangyinpu sedimentary period, the water body had the strongest reducibility and the highest biological productivity. Moreover, the paleo-ocean in this period between the Yangtze plate and the Cathaysian plate was greatly affected by hydrothermal activities, with temperatures ranging from 90°C to 120°C. Active hydrothermal activities promoted high biological productivity and an anaerobic environment, both of which were conducive to the preservation and enrichment of organic matter, resulting in extremely high TOC content in the Wangyinpu shales (from 6.5%~16%).

Session No. 24

T203. New Advances in Geobiology
Monday, 26 October 2020: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol 52, No. 6
doi: 10.1130/abs/2020AM-350989
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