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Jidong Nanpu Oil Field
The Jidong Nanpu Oil field is located in the Southwest corner of Bohai Bay, China. It is part of the Nanpu sag, within the Huanghua depression in Bohai Bay, China. Discovered in 2005, production began in 2006 by the China National Petroleum corporation. During the first 16 years since CNPC Jidong Oil Company began to develop the area in 1988, little progress was made. However, in September 2004, a high yield gas flow was obtained in old Nanpu Well 1 with an output of 700 m3 per day, marking the great discovery. Up till now, 76 exploration wells and appraisal wells have been completed, and 67 wells have been interpreted. Commercial oil flows are obtained from 30 of the 32 testing wells. And 5 oil-bearing structures have been discovered.

The eponymous, Nanpu Sag, from which oil and gas is generated, covers an area of roughly 3000 km2. Total Oil reserves are estimated at 7.35 billion barrels, of the certified reserves an estimated 86.96 million tons is economically recoverable. Daily oil productions averages about 200,000 barrels per day.

Geologic Context
The Bohai-Bay Basin is a faulted or pull-apart basin of Mesozoic–Cenozoic age, which experienced multi-phase tectonic activities after sedimentation. Paleozoic sediments were uplifted and denuded, forming a tectonic framework characterized by horsts and grabens and a series of buried hills.

Weathering and leeching processes created high quality reservoirs at the structural peaks of buried hills. These Paleozoic reservoirs usually directly contact the Cenozoic source rocks, which are favorable for forming oil pools with young source rocks and ancient reservoirs.

The basement structure of the Bohai Bay Basin is complex, with alternated sags and bulges and large tectonic relief, and varying residual pre-Paleogene formations.

Tectonic Setting
The Nanpu sag is a Cenozoic graben sag located to the northeast of Huanghua depression, Bohai Bay Basin. It is bounded by the Xinanzhuang fault with the Laowangzhuang - Xinanzhuang uplift in northwest, bounded by the Bogezhuang fault with the Matouying - Baigezhuang uplift in northeast, in the southern overlapped by the Shaleitian uplift.

During the Pre-Tertiary the tectonic feature of the Nanpu No. 1  is a faulted nose that dips from south to north, west and east. The late activity of the Nanpu No.1 basement fault resulted in the early Ordovician buried hill fault block mountains.

The Paleogene is the major period of subsidence and depression, the Shahejie Formation directly covered the drape anticline above the buried hill, and a number of north-east and east-west faults made the anticline be split into many faulted anticlines in this period. Es,

The lower member in the Shahejie Formation, the upper member in the Shahejie Formation and the lower member in the Dongying Formation, are the main source rocks of the Nanpu sag, and form good petroleum sources with organic content of greater than 1% on average.

Burial and Thermal Evolution
The Paleogene Dongying Formation in the Nanpu Sag was slowly buried to a depth of 800 m at the end of Neogene Guantao Formation, and was continuously buried to a depth of 2500–3500 m because the Guantao deposition had a greater burial rate. Multiphase tectonic activities gave rise to two stages of hydrocarbon generation of coal source rocks. The accelerated tectonic subsidence occurring after 12Ma in Bohai Bay Basin buried the Paleogene source rocks of the basin deeper, resulting in a higher maturity.

This additional subsidence enabled the source rocks to reach maturity due to the accumulation of additional overburden. Furthermore, as a direct result of accelerated tectonic subsidence, Bohai Bay deposited shallow, argillaceous lacustrine successions, and these likely served to enable the juxta-position of seal and reservoir rocks required for the development of viable hydrocarbon plays. Networks of dense Neogene Quaternary faults provided the most important pathway for vertical hydrocarbon migration from the Paleogene sequence to the Neogene sequence.

The first stage of hydrocarbon formation occurred at the end of the Yanshanian (Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous), when some small oil and gas reservoirs formed due to small period of hydrocarbon generation with the highest temperature of 120 °C. The second stage occured in the Himalayan (since the middle Paleogene Period),  when the organic matter in Carboniferous–Permian source rocks was mature enough to generate a large volume of oil and gas. This is the major stage of hydro-carbon accumulation in the Paleozoic buried hills of the Huanghua Depression.

Reservoir Properties
Wide ranges of porosity and permeability are observed in the sandstones of Dongying Formation. There is a general increasing trend of permeability with porosity, however, the oil bearing property does not always improve with reservoir quality

Most of the clastic buried hills are in the central and southern Huanghua Depression, where thick Carboniferous-Permian formations have been preserved, these layers contain high oil content. The Ordovician reservoirs have higher gas-oil ratio and oil maturity than Permian reservoirs. Gases from Ordovician buried hills often contain acidic gases, (e.g. H2S and CO2.). Gases from Permian buried hills have lower content of non-hydrocarbon components.

The thermal maturity of source rock in this area is mainly dependent on the process of burial. Through restoration of single-well denudation thickness, burial history, and thermal  history, it is concluded that the Upper Paleozoic Erathem in the central and southern Huanghua Depression may have four types of burial history, i.e. sustained deep burial, early uplifting and later burial, periodic burial, and early burial and later uplifting, different types of burial history have different processes of hydrocarbon generation.

The Carboniferous–Permian coal-bearing source rock is rich in organic matter, which are mainly composed of type II2 and III kerogens, and minor II 1 kerogen  in partial areas. These natural gases are mainly hydrocarbon gases, with methane content about 80% to 90% and ethane 6%—9%, so they are mainly wet gas; and non-hydrocarbons are at a low level.

Paleogene Dongying Formation (Ed)
The Palaeogene Dongying Formation is dominated by the depositional system of alluvial fan facies, fan delta facies (braided delta facies) and lacustrine facies. The lithologies of the Paleogene Dongying Formation in the Nanpu Sag include fine-medium grained sandstones, grey mudstones, medium-grained sandstones, conglomerates, and siltstones interbedded with mudstones.

Cross beddings (wedge-shape and tabular) as well as parallel bedding was observed in the fine-medium grained sandstones, and occasionally massive (without cross bedding) sandstones can be observed.

Dark-grey mudstones are commonly interbedded with the siltstones, and occasionally wavy bedding can be observed. The complex lithologic assemblage is in accordance with the depositional setting of a rift lacustrine basin, in which the depositional facies are interpreted as braided delta, fan delta, and lacustrine facies, as well as subaqueous gravity flows.

Shahejie Formation (Es)
Permian buried hill resevoirs in the Huangua are mostly clastic and include the Upper and lower Shihezi sandstone.

The Upper Shihezi formation consists of  feldspar lithic sandstone and lithic feldspar sandstone (with quartz, feldspar, and clastic debris accounting for 42%, 25%, and 33% of clastic components, respectively) and some lithic sandstone.

The lower Shihezi sandstone is a continental fuluvial facies which was depostited after marine regression. mainly consists of lithic quartz sandstone and lithic feldspar sandstone (with quartz, feldspar, and clastic debris accounting for 54%, 24%, and 22% of the clastic components, respectively) and some feldspathic quartz sandstone. The clastic particles have medium-good sorting, and are subangular.

Es1
The Es1 sandstone is a fruitful hydrocarbon zone of Eocene Shahejie Formation.

Studies divided the formation into five lithofacies including conglomerate sandstone lithofacies, medium to coarse-grain sandstone lithofacies, fine sandstone lithofacies, siltstone lithofacies, and mudstone lithofacies. Core observation, sedimentary structures, facies sequences of the well log, and sedimentary composition reveal that Es1 deposited into the lacustrine delta fan depositional environment. Rock grain size indicates that Es1 contains mixtures of grains including pebbles, sand-size as well as minor silt and clay size. Grain size varies from conglomerate to clay size. The Es1 sandstone was deposited in braided river (conglomerates sandstone), channel bar, lacustrine, fluvial channel (massive bedding, cross-bedding, and graded bedding sandstone), deltaic, and flood-plain (siltstone and mudstone) sedimentary environment. It is concluded that higher transport energies in channels deposited coarse-grain sediments in shallowest part of the lake setting. However, the energy decreases towards greater depth which deposited mudstone in central part of the lake.

Two microfacies of lithofacies have been established as sandstone microfacies and mudstone microfacies on the basis of grain size. Among them, sandstone is further divided into four sub-microfacies on the basis of microscopic studies, rock fragments and mineral composition, which are arkose sandstone, lithic arkose, feldspathic lith-arenite, and lith-arenite. These microfacies consisting quartz, feldspar as abundant detrital grains followed by rock fragments and micas, whereas calcite, ferro-calcite, quartz overgrowth, and clay are the main cement.

The Es1 sandstone consists of good primary porosity and permeability as well as good secondary porosity caused by fracturing and dissolution of unstable minerals that enhance the reservoir quality, whereas cementation and compaction reduce the reservoir characteristics.

Petroleum Production
China's Ministry of Land and Resources has certified the discovery of 445 million tonnes, or some 3.2 billion barrels, of proven oil reserves in PetroChina's 0857.HKPTR.N Jidong Nanpu oilfield.

CNPC had also said in May that Jidong Nanpu contained total oil and gas reserves of some 1 billion tonnes (7.3 billion barrels), ranking it among the world’s biggest finds this decade.