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Abstract
Debolt Formation Oil-Source Systems: 1. Crude Oil Families in the Dunvegan-Blueberry Area of Alberta and British Columbia
ABSTRACT
Eleven crude oils and eleven oil-stained core samples from the Blueberry, Dunvegan, Royce, Girouxville East and Eaglesham areas of northwest Alberta and northeastern British Columbia have been geochemically analyzed. The sample set includes three families of oils. The Dunvegan Debolt family is similar to oils derived from the Winnepegosis Formation in Saskatchewan, characterized by a moderate pristane/phytane ratio, significant prominence of the C34 homohopane biomarker and low concentrations of tricyclic triterpenoids. This family is inferred to have been derived from a source rock deposited under hypersaline, carbonate-evaporite conditions similar to the Winnipegosis Formation source. The Royce Debolt family has many characteristics similar to oils interpreted as having been derived from the Exshaw Formation, including no homohopane prominence, moderate concentration of tricyclic triterpanes and low concentration of the C24 tetracyclic terpane. The Blueberry Debolt oils are highly unusual in that they are devoid of polycyclic biomarker compounds (steranes and terpanes) but do not appear to be overly mature. These oils are interpreted as having either a third and highly unusual source rock and/or a complex generation, expulsion, migration, entrapment and preservation history.
RESUME
Onze echantillons de carottes tachees de petrole et onze autres de petrole brut provenant des regions de Blueberry, de Dunvegan, de Royce, de Girouxville Est et d'Eaglesham du nord-ouest de l'Alberta et du nord-est de la Colombie-Britannique ont fait l'objet d'analyse geochimique. Le jeu d'echantillons inclut trois familles de petrole. La famille de Dunvegan Debolt est similaire aux petroles derives de la Formation de Winnipegosis de la Saskatchewan, caracterisee par un rapport pristane/phytane, la proeminence significative du biomarqueur homohopane C34 et des concentrations faibles de triternoides tricycliques. Cette famille est inferee comme etant derivee d'une roche source deposee dans des conditions hypersalines, de carbonate-evaporite similaires a la source de la Formation de Winnipegosis. La famille de Royce Debolt montre plusieurs caracteristiques qui sont similaires aux petroles interpretes comme ayant ete derives de la Formation de Exshaw, incluant la proeminence du non-homohopane, la concentration moderee de triterpanes tricy-cliques et la concentration faible de terpane tetracyclique C24. Les petroles de Blueberry Debolt sont hautement insolites en ce qu'ils sont depourvus de composes biomarqueurs polycycliques (steranes et terpanes), mais n'apparaissent pas excessivement matures. Ces petroles sont interpretes comme ayant soit une troisieme et hautement insolite roche source et/ou une histoire complexe de genese, d'expulsion, de migration, de piegeage et de preservation.
Traduit par Lynn Gagnon.
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