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AAPG Bulletin, V. 96, No. 6 (June 2012), P. 11211146.

Copyright copy2012. The American Association of Petroleum Geologists. All rights reserved.

DOI:10.1306/10181111043

Oil families and their inferred Previous HitsourceNext Hit rocks in the Barents Sea and northern Timan-Pechora Basin, Russia

Meng He,1 J. Michael Moldowan,2 Alla Nemchenko-Rovenskaya,3 Kenneth E. Peters4

1Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, California; [email protected]
2Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, California; [email protected]
3The Foundation for Previous HitEastNext Hit-West Cooperation, Moscow, 119234, Russia; [email protected]
4Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, California; present address: Schlumberger, 18 Manzanita Place, Mill Valley, California; [email protected]

ABSTRACT

A geochemical study of 34 oil samples was conducted to understand the types and distributions of effective Previous HitsourceNext Hit rocks and evaluate the geographic extent of the petroleum systems in the Barents Sea and northern Timan-Pechora Basin. Taxon-specific, age-related, and Previous HitsourceNext Hit-related biological markers (biomarkers) and isotope data provided information on the depositional environment of the Previous HitsourceNext Hit Previous HitrockNext Hit, Previous HitsourceNext Hit input, and Previous HitsourceNext Hit age of the oil samples. A relationship between biomarker and diamondoid concentration was used to identify mixed oils having both oil window and highly cracked components. Compound-specific isotope analyses of diamondoids and n-alkanes were used to deconvolute cosourced oils and identify deep Previous HitsourceNext Hit rocks in the basin. Results suggest five major Previous HitsourceNext Hit rocks in the Barents Sea and the northern Timan-Pechora Basin: Upper Jurassic shale, Lower–Middle Jurassic shale, Triassic carbonate and shale, Devonian marl, and Devonian carbonate. The Upper and Lower–Middle Jurassic Previous HitsourceNext Hit rocks are dominant in the Barents Sea. Triassic Previous HitsourceNext Hit Previous HitrockNext Hit consists of carbonate in the onshore part of northern Timan-Pechora Basin and marine shale in the Barents Sea. The Devonian Domanik Formation carbonate Previous HitsourceNext Hit Previous HitrockNext Hit extends offshore into the southern Barents Sea. The high-maturity Domanik Formation could also be a secondary Previous HitsourceNext Hit Previous HitrockTop for most of the mixed oils in the northern Timan-Pechora Basin. This detailed geochemical study provides a new and detailed understanding of petroleum systems in the Barents Sea and northern Timan-Pechora Basin.

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