| Summary: | The petroleum geological elements and main controlling factors of the Middle-Upper Cambrian Xixiangchi Group in the eastern Sichuan Basin were systematically analyzed on the basis of geological outcrops and drilling data. Results showed that the reservoir lithology of the Xixiangchi Group was mainly micritic and silt-crystal dolomites, and the reservoir space was dominated by dolomite inter-crystalline pores, inter-crystalline dissolved pores and karst caves, etc., at the meantime, the reservoir quality is generally poor. The Xixiangchi Group was vertically composed by two sets of source rocks strata: the underlying Lower Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation and the overlying Upper Ordovician Wufeng Formation-Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation. The Silurian shale and the Lower Ordovician argillaceous rocks acted as regional and local cap rocks of the Xixiangchi Group. High-quality reservoirs are the necessary prerequisite for hydrocarbon accumulation in the Xixiangchi Group, and the source-reservoir spatial configuration and its effectiveness are the key factors to hydrocarbon accumulation. Though the Xixiangchi Group could have been charged by natural gas generated from the underlying and the overlying source rocks, it is difficult for the natural gas generated from the underlying source rocks to migrate up to the Xixiangchi Group due to the barrier of the Cambrian gypsum layers. However, the faulted anticlines developed over the Cambrian gypsum layer were favorable for hydrocarbon accumulation because they could change and construct a series of effective source-reservoir spatial configuration between the Wufeng-Longmaxi source rocks and the Xixiangchi reservoirs, and finally formed reservoirs with "young source in old reservoir" in the Xixiangchi Group.
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