Compositional Models of Petroleum and Expulsion from Source Rocks and Generation in Their Application
- Received Date: 1996-09-12
- Publish Date: 1997-04-10
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Key words:
- hydrocarbon generation /
- oil and gas migration /
- numerical simulation /
- composidonal model
Abstract: The new compositional models of hydrocarbon generation in and expulsion from source rocks wereproposed in this paper. The compositional model of hydrocarbon generation is based on the com posi do nalproductivity of source rocks vs. thermal maturity derived from thermal simulation experiment in labora-tory. The compositional model of hydrocarbon expulsion includes open system model and intermittentlyopen system model. The open system model describes the process of hydrocarbon expulsion throughpores of source rocks forced by compaction,and the intermittently open system model describes the pro-cess of hydrocarbon expulsion through microfractures forced by abnormally high fluid pressure. The changes of fluid volume and phases in the pore system and the distribution of hydrocarbon compositionsin different phases were calculated with thermodynaer cprinciples based on the temperature pressureand the fluid composition in the pore system. Thus, the expulsion history of hydrocarbon compositionsand the total expulsion amount can be simulated based on the difference between fluid volume and porevolume of source rocks and the distribution of hydrocarbon compositions in different phases. The resultof these models applied to the Paleozoic of the Ordos basin has shown the practical value of the models.
Citation: | Liu Guangdi, Huang Zhilong, Hao Shisheng. Compositional Models of Petroleum and Expulsion from Source Rocks and Generation in Their Application[J]. Acta Sedimentologica Sinica, 1997, 15(2): 130-133. |