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Hydrocarbon Generation and Accumulation in the Eastern Kuqa Depression, Northwestern China: Insights from Basin and Petroleum System Modeling

Kun Jia    
Wenfang Yuan    
Jianliang Liu    
Xianzhang Yang    
Liang Zhang    
Yin Liu    
Lu Zhou and Keyu Liu    

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The eastern Kuqa Depression in the northern Tarim Basin, NW China, is rich in oil and gas. However, recent exploration has been hindered by a lack of knowledge on the evolution of the petroleum system. To address this, we conducted hydrocarbon generation and accumulation modeling using both the 2Dmove and PetroMod2017 software for a complex tectonic extrusion section in the Kuqa Depression. The results show that the source rocks in the northern slope zone became mature quite early at around 170 Ma, but the thermal maturity evolution stagnated subsequently because of tectonic extrusion and uplift. The source rocks in the central anticline zone, the southern slope zone, and the deep sag zone were of overall low maturity during the Jurassic to Paleogene but rapidly became mature to highly mature with the deposition of the Neogene Jidike and Kangcun formations. The main hydrocarbon generation periods are in the late Neogene and Quaternary, and the main hydrocarbon generation stratum is the lower Jurassic Yangxia formation. The amount of cumulative hydrocarbon generation gradually increases for carbonaceous mudstone, mudstone, and coal source rocks. Sourced from source rocks mainly in the northern slope zone, oil and gas migrated to anticlinal traps along sandstone transport layers and faults. Recent discoveries, such as the Tudong-2 gas field in the central anticline zone, underscore the richness of this region in petroleum resources. Some gas fields were also predicted in lithologic traps in the southern slope zone and the deep sag zone, as well as in fault-related traps in the northern part of the northern slope zone.

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