Characteristics and Influence Factors of the Middle-Lower Jurassic Tight Sandstone Reservoirs in the Taibei Sag, Turpan-Hami Basin

Abstract Sandstone can be divided into many types with reference to permeability and porosity. Some scholars and researchers have established criteria to classify tight sandstone by using porosity and permeability. Sandstone with permeability less than 1mD and porosity less than 10% could be called tight sandstone. Exploration and development of tight sandstone gas has become a hot spot of oil and gas exploration (Dai J. et al., 2002) in China. Quite recently, tight sandstone gas reservoirs of different scales have been discovered in the middle-lower Jurassic of Taibei Sag in Turpan-Hami Basin. The purposes of this paperare to analyze the texture and composition of the middle-lower Jurassic tight sandstones, investigate diagenesis type and reveal the influence of diagenesis on reservoir quality.