| DEDICATION | 第1-4页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第4-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-9页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第11-14页 |
| FIGURES AND MAPS | 第14-17页 |
| LIST OF ILLUSTRATION TABLES | 第17-18页 |
| APPENDICES | 第18-19页 |
| Preface | 第19-24页 |
| §1 Objective and problem statement | 第19页 |
| §2 Previous Studies(Petroleum geology and origin of the extension) | 第19-22页 |
| §3 Problems to be addressed | 第22页 |
| §4 Main conclusion and creativity | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter one: South China Sea regional geology | 第24-30页 |
| §1.1 Introduction | 第24-25页 |
| §1.2 Location of the South China Sea | 第25-26页 |
| §1.3 Geological Settings of the South China Sea | 第26-27页 |
| §1.4 Stratigraphy of the Pearl River Mouth Basin | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter Two: Geochemistry Character of Source Rock | 第30-51页 |
| §2.1 Data analysis | 第30-31页 |
| §2.2 Materials and methods | 第31-33页 |
| §2.3 Light oils/Source rock characterization | 第33-45页 |
| ·Source rocks | 第33-39页 |
| ·Geochemical characteristics of the source rocks | 第39-40页 |
| ·Total organic carbon concentration. | 第40-41页 |
| ·Hydrocarbon occurrence potential | 第41页 |
| ·Gas chromatography analysis of dissolved saturated hydrocarbons | 第41-43页 |
| ·Vitrinite reflectance(Ro%) | 第43-45页 |
| §2.4 Oil-source correlations | 第45-51页 |
| ·Characteristics of steranes compounds | 第46-47页 |
| ·Oil-off correlation of series compounds of light hydrocarbons ratios | 第47-48页 |
| ·Steranes-terpanes series correlation | 第48-49页 |
| ·Carbon isotopes distribution | 第49-51页 |
| Chapter Three: Burial history, thermal maturation and Hydrocarbon generation modeling:Bai Yun depression and Pan Yu Low uplift(South China Sea) | 第51-77页 |
| §3.1 Introduction | 第51页 |
| §3.2 Maturity modeling and fluid flow modeling | 第51-52页 |
| §3.3 Methodology and modeling parameters | 第52-57页 |
| ·The methodology in the IES Petromod 7.1 software package | 第52-53页 |
| ·Input modeling parameters | 第53-57页 |
| §3.4 Burial and thermal histories results | 第57-69页 |
| ·LH21-21-1 Well | 第57页 |
| ·PY24-1-1 Well | 第57-58页 |
| ·PY28-2-1 Well | 第58页 |
| ·PY30-1-1 Well | 第58-59页 |
| ·PY33-1-1 Well | 第59-69页 |
| §3.5 2-D thermal modeling results and discussion | 第69-72页 |
| §3.6 Overpressures discussion | 第72-76页 |
| Conclusion | 第76-77页 |
| Chapter Four: 2-D structural analysis of hydrocarbon migration | 第77-91页 |
| §4.1 Introduction | 第77页 |
| §4.2 Methodology | 第77-78页 |
| §4.3 Hydrocarbon migration modeling results with Petromod 7.1 software package | 第78-81页 |
| ·Palaeoenvironment and palaeobathymetry | 第78-79页 |
| ·Palaeo-migration | 第79-81页 |
| §4.4 Hydrocarbon migration modeling with BasinFlow (Basinmod) software package | 第81-90页 |
| ·Introduction | 第81-82页 |
| ·Hydrocarbon buoyancy | 第82-83页 |
| ·Water drive (hydrodynamic pressure) | 第83页 |
| ·Interfacial surface tension | 第83-84页 |
| ·Capillary threshold pressure | 第84-85页 |
| ·Hydrocarbon head | 第85页 |
| ·Methodology used in this study | 第85-89页 |
| ·Comparison between the results from the two softwares | 第89-90页 |
| Conclusion | 第90-91页 |
| Chapter Five: Hydrocarbon migration analysis using gas geochemistry and other geochemical parameters | 第91-104页 |
| §5.1 Gas geochemistry from well testing data | 第91页 |
| §5.2 Migration episodes from well PY34-1-1 | 第91页 |
| §5.3 Migration episodes from well L19-1-1 | 第91-92页 |
| §5.4 Migration episodes from well PY29-1-2A | 第92页 |
| §5.5 Migration episodes from well PY30-1-1 | 第92页 |
| §5.6 Other geochemical parameters in relation with migration | 第92-103页 |
| Conclusion | 第103-104页 |
| Chapter Six: Comparison with source rock maturation analysis in East China Sea(Xihu depression) | 第104-115页 |
| §6.1 Regional geology and structural characters | 第104-106页 |
| §6.2 Geological setting | 第106页 |
| §6.3 Results and discussions of thermal maturation in East China Sea (Xihu depression) | 第106-111页 |
| ·Baoyunting-1 Well | 第106-107页 |
| ·Pinghu-5 Well | 第107页 |
| ·Yuquan-1 well | 第107-108页 |
| ·Duanqiao-1 well | 第108-111页 |
| §6.4 Comparison between Xihu depression and Bai Yun depression | 第111-113页 |
| Conclusion | 第113-115页 |
| References | 第115-122页 |
| Appendices | 第122-134页 |
