Petroleum migration and mixing in the northwestern Junggar Basin (NW China): constraints from oil-bearing fluid inclusion analyses

Petrographic and microthermometric investigations of oil-bearing fluid inclusions suggest a single oil charge in the slope area (to the Lower Triassic reservoir, occurring during the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic time). In the fault zone, oil migration and mixing took place mainly during the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic and Cretaceous, followed by gas migration in the Tertiary period. The different petroleum migration and mixing histories in the slope and fault zones are attributed to the effect of fault-controlled oil and gas migration.