Destruction of hydrocarbon reservoirs due to tectonic modifications: Conceptual models and quantitative evaluation on the Tarim Basin, China

The Tarim Basin in China is a complicated superimposed basin with four periods of hydrocarbon accumulations and three periods of modifications due to tectonic movements, forming complicated hydrocarbon reservoirs, many of which have gone through reservoir migration, reservoir scale reformation, reservoir damage and phase alterations a result of the tectonic events. Due to the complexity, the hydrocarbon exploration in this region has low success...