Special Oil & Gas Reservoirs ›› 2025, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (6): 78-85.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-6535.2025.06.009

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Prediction of shale content in tight sandstone reservoirs of the Lower He 8 Member in Jingbian Gasfield

LUO Guanghui1,2,3, DAI Heng4, YU Jie4, ZHANG Xiaoli1,2,3, YANG Yi5, LI Yajun6, YAN Yuanzi7, ZHOU Zhijie1,2,3   

  1. 1. Northwest University, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710069,China;
    2. National & Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710069, China;
    3. Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Carbon Neutrality Technology, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710069, China;
    4. PetroChina Changqing Oilfield Company, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710016, China;
    5. Xi′an Petroleum University, Xi′an, Shaanxi 710065, China;
    6. Yan′an University, Yan′an, Shaanxi 716000, China;
    7. Shaanxi Energy Institute, Xianyang, Shaanxi 712099, China
  • Received:2024-12-05 Revised:2025-08-05 Online:2025-12-25 Published:2025-12-31

Abstract: To address challenges such as complex and variable sandstone types, unclear identification of lithology and effective reservoirs and low accuracy in porosity log interpretation in the tight sandstone reservoir of the Lower He 8 Member of the Upper Paleozoic Shihezi Formation in the Ordos Basin, a prediction model for shale content of these three types of sandstone was established through analysis of the logging response characteristics of quartz sandstone, lithic quartz sandstone and lithic sandstone. The results indicate that the distribution ranges of natural gamma logging values for quartz sandstone, lithic quartz sandstone and lithic sandstone are large, with minimum values of 20.0, 30.0 and 40.0 API respectively;The absolute error of the shale content prediction model is less than 5.0%, indicating reliable prediction accuracy of the model. This achievement can provide technical support for lithology identification and effective reservoir prediction in the study area and also provide reference for calculating shale content and porosity in other complex tight sandstone reservoirs.

Key words: shale content, tight sandstone, low porosity and low permeability reservoir, Lower He 8 Member, logging response characteristics, Jingbian Gasfield

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