[HTML][HTML] Unconventional petroleum sedimentology: A key to understanding unconventional hydrocarbon accumulation

C Zou, Z Qiu, J Zhang, Z Li, H Wei, B Liu, J Zhao… - Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The commercial exploitation of unconventional petroleum resources (eg, shale oil/gas and
tight oil/gas) has drastically changed the global energy structure within the past two …

Coupling mechanism between sea level changes and pore heterogeneity of marine shale reservoirs driven by astronomical orbital cycles: Lower Silurian Longmaxi …

L Chen, M Xiong, X Tan, X Chen, J Zheng… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine cycles driven by astronomical orbital periods, may reflect sea-level fluctuations,
which considerably influence organic matter (OM) accumulation, redox conditions, and …

Depositional environment and organic matter accumulation of Upper Ordovician–Lower Silurian marine shale in the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China

Y Li, T Zhang, GS Ellis, D Shao - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2017 - Elsevier
The main controlling factors of organic matter accumulation in the Upper Ordovician Wufeng–
Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formations are complex and remain highly controversial. This …

Controlling factors on the formation and distribution of “sweet-spot areas” of marine gas shales in South China and a preliminary discussion on unconventional …

Z Qiu, C Zou - Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Shale gas resources in China are abundant with the marine shales accounting for the
largest proportion, ie 13× 10 12 m 3. The Wufeng-Longmaxi Shale system deposited across …

[HTML][HTML] Whole petroleum system and ordered distribution pattern of conventional and unconventional oil and gas reservoirs

CZ Jia, XQ Pang, Y Song - Petroleum Science, 2023 - Elsevier
The classical source-to-trap petroleum system concept only considers the migration and
accumulation of conventional oil and gas in traps driven dominantly by buoyance in a basin …

Rare Earth Element Characteristics of Shales from Wufeng–Longmaxi Formations in Deep-Buried Areas of the Northern Sichuan Basin, Southern China: Implications …

B Xiao, D Guo, S Li, S Xiong, Z Jing, M Feng, X Fu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
To explore the sedimentary environment and the background of the source area of organic-
rich shales in the Wufeng–Longmaxi Formations in the northern Sichuan Basin, samples …

Geochemical characteristics, redox conditions, and organic matter accumulation of marine oil shale from the Changliang Mountain area, northern Tibet, China

S Zeng, J Wang, X Fu, W Chen, X Feng, D Wang… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The organic-rich Changliang Mountain oil shale, located in the North Qiangtang
depression, northern Tibet, is considered to be excellent mineral resource in China. The …

Organic matter enrichment due to high primary productivity in the deep-water shelf: Insights from the lower Cambrian Qiongzhusi shales of the central Sichuan Basin …

Y Li, G Liu, Z Song, B Zhang, M Sun, X Tian… - Journal of Asian Earth …, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation and enrichment mechanisms of organic-rich shales under different marine
environments remain unclear. Recently, Cambrian Qiongzhusi (QZS) shales with greater …

Late Ordovician-Early Silurian extension of the northern margin of the Upper Yangtze Platform (South China) and its impact on organic matter accumulation

B Xiao, L Xiong, Z Zhao, X Fu, Z Zhao, H Hou… - Journal of Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breakthroughs in shale gas exploration in the Upper Ordovician-Lower Silurian strata of the
Upper Yangtze Platform have attracted interest in its sedimentary-tectonic evolution, but the …

Controls on organic matter accumulation in the Triassic Chang 7 lacustrine shale of the Ordos Basin, central China

W Zhang, W Yang, L Xie - International Journal of Coal Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Triassic Chang 7 Formation is a rich lacustrine source rock in the Ordos Basin,
central China. Petrographic and geochemical analyses were performed in order to research …