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Natural Gas Geochemistry in Kuqa Depression, Tarim Basin, NW China and Its Application to Gas Filling History Quanyou Liu1，#, Tongwei Zhang2,3,#, Jin Zhijun1, Qin Shengfei4, Tang Yongchun3, Liu Wenhui3 1. Exploration Production Research Institute, SINOPEC, Beijing, China 2. Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin University Station 3. Power, Environmental Energy Research Center, California Institute of Technology 4. Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development, PetroChina, Beijing, China # Corresponding author: E-mail: qyouliu@ (Quanyou Liu), Tel: 010zhangtw@ (T.W Zhang) Abstract: Based on the pyrolysis products for the Jurassic low-mature coal under programmed temperature, and chemical and carbon isotopic compositions of natural gas from the Kuqa Depression, the genetic origin of natural gas was determined, and then gas filling model was established, in combination with geological background of the Kuqa Depression. The active energy of CH4, C2H6 and C3H8 was gotten after the data of pyrolysis gas products under different heating rates (2oC/hr and 20oC/hr) were fitted by the GOR Isotope Model soft. When the frequency factor (Af) was chosen as 1E+14, the active energy of CH4, C2H6 and C3H8 is 58kcal/mol, 57kcal/mol and 54kcal/mol, respectively. The distributive ranges of the ?13C1,??13C2 and ??13C3 values for the pyrolysis gas products are -35.9‰ ~ -30.7‰, -26.2‰ ~ -21.3‰ and -26.4 ~ -22.7‰, respectively. All of the natural gases from the Kuqa Depression are dominated by hydrocarbon gases, with the high gas dryness (C1/C1-4) at the middle and northern parts of the depression and the low values at both east and west sides and southern part. The carbon isotopes of methane and its homologues as a typical coal-type gas are enriched in 13C, and the distributive range of the ?13C1,??13C2 and ??13C3 value is -32‰ ~ -38‰, -22‰ ~ -24‰ and -20 ~ -22‰, respectively, with the carbon isotopes of gaseous alkanes being less n