The primary focus of oil and gas exploration for tight sandstone reservoirs is on a quantitative characterization of reservoir properties. This paper uses the tight sandstone reservoir developed in the Gaotaizi oil layer in the Qijia area of the Songliao Basin as an example. The petrology, physical properties, pore–throat characteristics, and the genesis of the densification of the oil-bearing sandstones are elucidated using casting thin-sections, scanning electron microscopy, 3D computerized tomography (CT), and petrophysical experimental techniques. The results show that the Gaotaizi oil layer is mainly composed of clastic rocks and contains small amounts of shell limestone. The clastic rocks are mainly lithic feldspar sandstone and feldspar lithic sandstone, while residual intergranular pores, intergranular dissolved pores, intragranular dissolved pores, intragranular pores and intercrystalline pores constitute the different pore types. Mercury intrusion and 3D computerized tomography analysis showed that micro-nano pores account for 53% of the total pores present. The pore–throat coordination number is distributed between 1 and 4, with an average of 1.8. The pores and throats in the Gaotaizi reservoir have poor connectivity. The porosity distribution of the Gaotaizi oil layer is 1.4%–22.5%, with an average of 9.5%, while the permeability distribution ranges from 0.01 to 27.10 mD, with an average of 0.41 mD. It is an ultra-low porosity and ultra-low permeability tight reservoir. The Gaotaizi oil layer is divided into three types of reservoirs through a systematic study of its pore developmental characteristics. Diagenetic processes like compaction and cementation result in a reduction in porosity and permeability. Compaction, calcite and siliceous cementation, and illite packing are primarily responsible for reservoir densification.
A thermodynamic and hydrocarbon composition model based on VTFlinc software was conducted based on the homogenization temperature of fluid inclusions and gas-to-liquid ratio, and the fluid inclusions’ trapped pressure was calculated. This software does not require the determination of individual inclusions, the composition of the simulation procedure is simple, and the simulation result has certain reliability. The VTFlinc software was used to calculate the trapped pressure of oil inclusions in the Fuyu tight reservoir of the Sanzhao area in the Songliao Basin. The results show the existence of two phases of oil charge. The first phase occurred at the end of the Nenjiang Formation at 79–74 Ma with an oil entrapped pressure of 16.922–19.068 MPa, and pressure coefficient of 1.18–1.26. During the second period in the Sifangtai Mingshui group at 69–64 Ma, the oil entrapped pressure was 20.216–28.830 MPa, and the pressure coefficient was 1.21–1.33. During the two periods, the pressure of the trapped oil inclusions is abnormal, and the pressure coefficient is above 1.2. Abnormal high pressure is the main driving force of hydrocarbon source rock and oil in the Fuyu Formation, as well as an important driving force for the lateral migration of oil in the tight reservoir. The reservoir formation model of the Fuyu tight oil reservoir in the Sanzhao area is a direct high-pressure charging and multi-channel migration accumulation model. The Q-1 source rock and Fuyu oil layer has a direct contact relationship between the source rock and the reservoir.
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