How to Achieve the Precise Dating of Hydrocarbon Accumulation

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  • 1.State Key Laboratory of Enhanced Oil Recovery,Beijing 100083,China; 2.Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development,Beijing 100083,China

Received date: 2012-10-01

  Revised date: 2012-12-11

  Online published: 2013-04-10

Abstract

With the further development of “precise exploration” of oil and gas reservoirs,accurate dating of hydrocarbon accumulation is increasingly becoming a necessity.Most of the methods used to achieve the precise dating were through the radioisotope systems,such as K-Ar,40Ar-39Ar or Re-Os.Due to different samples,it includes the dating of diagenetic minerals related with the hydrocarbon migration,the dating of organic matters in the reservoir of oil or gas,and the dating of inclusions of oil or gas.However,for the imperfect or faulty of these dating methods in principle or experimental methodology,the accuracy and precision are still lack in the actual exploration work.Furthermore,the interpretations of geological events are still full of speculation and uncertainty.On the proposition of how to achieve the precise dating of hydrocarbon accumulation,we still need to improve the theoretic research and experimental analysis techniques to give much more reasonable explanation.Therefore,the geochronology analysis of hydrocarbon accumulation should not just stay on the single technology.We should combine the characteristics of each oil or gas reservoirs,search the direct products related to hydrocarbon accumulation,to obtain more comprehensive chronological information using multi-technology means. 

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WANG Hua-jian,ZHANG Shui-chang,WANG Xiao-mei . How to Achieve the Precise Dating of Hydrocarbon Accumulation[J]. Natural Gas Geoscience, 2013 , 24(2) : 210 -217 . DOI: 10.11764/j.issn.1672-1926.2013.02.210

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