Biomarker geochemistry of crude oils and Lower Paleozoic source rocks in the Tarim Basin, western China: An oil-source rock correlation study

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作者
Chen, Zhonghong [1 ,2 ]
Wang, T-G [3 ]
Li, Meijun [3 ]
Yang, Fuling [4 ]
Chen, Bin [1 ]
机构
[1] China Univ Petr, Sch Geosci, Changjiang West Rd 66, Qingdao 266580, Shandong, Peoples R China
[2] Shandong Univ Sci & Technol, Shandong Prov Key Lab Deposit Mineralizat & Sedim, Qingdao 266590, Shandong, Peoples R China
[3] China Univ Petr, Fac Nat Resources & Informat Technol, State Key Lab Petr Resources & Prospecting, Beijing 102249, Peoples R China
[4] Tongren Coll, Qingshui Rd 103, Tongren City 554300, Guizhou, Peoples R China
关键词
Steranes; Triaromatic steroids; Cambrian; Ordovician; Source rocks; Biomarkers; Tarim Basin; NW CHINA; MATURITY PARAMETERS; MOLECULAR FOSSILS; PETROLEUM SYSTEMS; STEROID HYDROCARBONS; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; TRIAROMATIC STEROIDS; TRICYCLIC TERPANES; HYDROUS PYROLYSIS; MARINE PETROLEUM;
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10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.05.023
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
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07 ;
摘要
In order to select biomarker parameters that have potential to quantitatively distinguish between the Cambrian-Lower Ordovician and Upper Ordovician source rocks in the Tarim Basin with a total organic carbon content > 0.5%, 42 Lower Paleozoic shale samples, were collected from a number of wells and outcrops in the Tarim Basin, northwestern China. The biomarkers in the extracts of the source rocks were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results show that C-23 and C-30 were dominant in the tricyclic terpanes and pentacyclic triterpanes, respectively, and C-27 and C-29 were both dominant in C27-29 steranes of the source rock samples. The distribution of n-alkanes, isoprenoids and terpanes indicate that the source rock samples have been slightly to moderately biodegraded, and they originated from a reducing depositional environment with considerable marine algal input in. Comparatively, Upper Ordovician source rock samples presented lower values of C28/C29 regular steranes and higher values of C-29 alpha alpha alpha 20S/(20S + 20R) and C-29 alpha beta/(alpha beta beta+ alpha alpha alpha). Abnormally lower values of C-29 alpha alpha alpha 20S/(20S + 20R) and C-29 alpha beta beta/(alpha beta beta+alpha alpha alpha) were observed in the Cambrian-Lower Ordovician strata. The set of data in this study show that homohopane index including C(31)homohopane/C(30)hopane, C31-35 homohopanes/C(30)hopane, and the ratios related to the triaromatic steroids including C-26 - 20S/C-28 - 20S TAS, C-27 - 20R/C-28 - 20R, (C-26 - 20R + C-27 - 20S)/C-28 - 20S and C-28/(C-26 + C-27) TAS, could serve as potential biomarker parameters to distinguish between the two groups of source rocks in the Tarim Basin. The values of those parameters (in above order) in Cambrian-Lower Ordovician source rocks were < 0.6, < 1.5, > 0.3, > 0.5, > 0.85, and < 1.2, respectively, whereas those in Upper Ordovician source rocks were > 0.8, > 1.9, < 0.3, < 0.5, < 0.85, and > 1.2, respectively. The correlation between the source rock samples and 19 oils obtained from the Tadong, Tabei and Tazhong uplifts in the Tarim Basin show that most of the oils in Tabei uplift are probably from Upper Ordovician source rocks, the oils in Tadong uplift are more likely from Cambrian- Lower Ordovician source rocks, and the Tazhong uplift is more like a mixed oil region with oils from both of the two groups of source rocks.
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