Abstract:In recent years, with the increasing demand for oil and gas resources in China and around the world, the field of unconventional oil and gas development has developed rapidly, among which shale gas is a large-scale, continuous, low-abundance unconventional oil and gas resource, has become a hot spot in the field of oil and gas exploration and development . Although the production of shale gas in my country has increased year by year in recent years, the exploration and development are mainly concentrated in the burial depth of 1500-3500 m and gradually develop to deep layers. It has received extensive attention due to its advantages of low development cost and fast production speed. At present, the exploration of shallow shale gas in foreign countries has been realized in some basins in the United States. my country's Zhaotong National Demonstration Area has been proved to have good natural gas performance by practice, and the development of shallow shale gas in the Taiyang block has been successful in This is the first case in my country. At present, the research on the Zhaotong National Demonstration Zone is mainly focused on the Huangjinba-Zijinba block, and there is less research on the shallow shale gas in the Zhaotong Taiyang anticline block. It is proved that it has the characteristics of shallow burial depth and high gas content, showing good exploration potential. The predecessors have studied the depositional environment, preservation conditions, reservoir characteristics and distribution of sweet spots in the Zhaotong Taiyang anticline block, and put forward the law of "three-element control of reservoirs". The characteristics and main controlling factors are not elaborated.
In this paper, the Zhaotong Taiyang block is taken as the research area, and the gas-bearing characteristics and main controlling factors of the shale samples from the Long 1 subsection of the Taiyang block are analyzed and tested using the relevant drilling data. The results show that (1) the shallow shale gas (buried depth <1500m) in the Taiyang block of the Zhaotong national demonstration area has a good prospect for exploration and development. Vertically, the total gas content is the highest in the S1l11 at the bottom, with an average of 2.74m3/t, which generally shows a decreasing trend with the decrease of depth. On the plane, the shale gas content of each sublayer has similar distribution characteristics as a whole, showing a pattern of high in the north and south and low in the middle, and the most enriched area of shale gas is located in the north of the study area; (2) Long 1 subsection of the study area The organic matter content, mineral composition and reservoir physical properties of shale all have a certain control on its gas-bearing properties. TOC, siliceous mineral content and porosity are positively correlated with shale gas-bearing properties. The development of TOC, siliceous mineral content and porosity can promote the generation, storage and development of shale gas. Among them, TOC is the most important factor controlling the gas content of the shale in the Long 1 subsection of the study area. The organic matter is the original material for generating shale gas, and the organic matter pores formed by the cracking of hydrocarbon generation provide a large amount of storage space for shale gas; The control effect of shale and siliceous mineral content is slightly weaker; studies have shown that marine shale has various pore types, and pores can be seen in organic matter, brittle minerals, clay minerals and other matrices; shale gas is mainly composed of adsorbed gas and free gas. The two states exist, and the development of organic pores is mostly honeycomb-like continuous and dense distribution, which can greatly increase the specific surface area, and has a positive effect on the free gas and adsorbed gas in shale, while the clay mineral intergranular there is more moisture in the pores, which is not conducive to the storage of shale gas, while free gas mainly occurs in the intergranular pores of brittle minerals. High content of brittle minerals is beneficial to the formation of reservoir fractures and the fracturing development of shale gas in the later stage. (3) The high-quality roof and floor conditions and micro-overpressure—overpressure in the study area provide favorable conditions for the enrichment and accumulation of shallow shale gas. The top and bottom strata of the Long 1 subsection in the study area are tight in lithology and good in sealing, showing the characteristics of micro-overpressure—overpressure, reducing shale gas escape, and having broad exploration prospects.