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Feb 2009
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Shiguo Wu, Qinghua Han, Yubo Ma, Dongdong Dong, Fuliang Lü. Petroleum System in Deepwater Basins of the Northern South China Sea. Journal of Earth Science, 2009, 20(1): 124-135. doi: 10.1007/s12583-009-0014-3
Citation: Shiguo Wu, Qinghua Han, Yubo Ma, Dongdong Dong, Fuliang Lü. Petroleum System in Deepwater Basins of the Northern South China Sea. Journal of Earth Science, 2009, 20(1): 124-135. doi: 10.1007/s12583-009-0014-3

Petroleum System in Deepwater Basins of the Northern South China Sea

doi: 10.1007/s12583-009-0014-3
Funds:

the National Basic Research Program of China 2007CB411703

the CAS Knowledge Innovation Program KZCX2-YW-203

the National MLR Petroleum Resource Strategic Target Survey and Evaluation Program 

the Taishan Scholarship Program of Shandong Province 

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  • Corresponding author: Wu Shiguo, swu@ms.qdio.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 28 Oct 2008
  • Accepted Date: 01 Dec 2008
  • The northern South China Sea margin has experienced a rifting stage and a post-rifting stage during the Cenozoic. In the rifting stage, the margin received lacustrine and shallow marine facies sediments. In the post-rifting thermal subsidence, the margin accumulated shallow marine facies and hemipelagic deposits, and the deepwater basins formed. Petroleum systems of deepwater setting have been imaged from seismic data and drill wells. Two kinds of source rocks including Paleogene lacustrine black shale and Oligocene-Early Miocene mudstone were developed in the deepwater basin of the South China Sea. The deepwater reservoirs are characterized by the deep sea channel fill, mass flow complexes and drowned reef carbonate platform. Profitable capping rocks on the top are mudstones with huge thickness in the post-rifting stage. Meanwhile, the faults developed during the rifting stage provide a migration path favourable for the formation of reservoirs. The analysis of seismic and drilling data suggests that the joint structural and stratigraphic traps could form giant hydrocarbon fields and hydrocarbon reservoirs including syn-rifting graben subaqueous delta, deepwater submarine fan sandstone and reef carbonate reservoirs.

     

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