Abstract: Host Rock Control on the Boron Concentration and Isotopic Composition of Ground Water from the Edwards Aquifer of Central Texas, by N. G. Hemming, G. N. Hanson, and W. J. Meyers; #90987 (1993).

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Organic and Authigenic Mineral Geochemistry of the Permian Delaware Mountain Group, West Texas: Implications for the Chemical Evolution of Pore Fluids

Phillip D. Hays, Suzette D. Walling, Thomas T. Tieh

Special Publications of SEPM

... limit for a potential source rock (Tissot and Welte 1978 In order for a potential source rock Tissot and Welte, 1978). In order for TOC data...

Carbon Isotopic Composition of Crude Oils from Ellenburger Group (Lower Ordovician), Permian Basin, West Texas and Eastern New Mexico

Keith A. Kvenvolden , Rodney M. Squires

AAPG Bulletin

... and distinguishable from most other known crude oils. Three main factors determine the isotopic composition of an oil; these are source, migration...

New Deepwater Geochemical Model for the Mahakam Delta and Makassar Slope, Kalimantan

K. E. Peters, J. W. Snedden, A. Sulaeman, J. F. Sarg, R. J. Enrico

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... on the Makassar Slope. However, our reinterpreted seismic and sequence stratigraphic data show that much of the source rock on the slope is in the oil...

Isotopic Composition of Sulfate Sulfur of Formation Waters of Some Oil-Gas Regions of the Soviet Union

R. G. Pankina, V. L. Mekhtiyeva, S. M. Guriyeva

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

...Isotopic Composition of Sulfate Sulfur of Formation Waters of Some Oil-Gas Regions of the Soviet Union R. G. Pankina, V. L. Mekhtiyeva, S. M...

Molecular and isotopic gas composition of the Devonian Berea Sandstone and implications for gas evolution, eastern Kentucky

Thomas M. Marty Parris, Paul C. Hackley, Stephen F. Greb, and Cortland F. Eble

AAPG Bulletin

... demonstrates the influence of nearby source rock thermal maturity on gas composition. Downdip, migration of oil and the attendant increase...

ABSTRACT: Sr Isotopic Characterization of Coal and Sandstone Aquifers, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Monitor of Aquifer Interactions in an Area of Active Coalbed Methane Development, by Carol D. Frost; #90906(2001)

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Hydrocarbon generation potential of Triassic mudstones in the Junggar Basin, northwest China

Ming Wu, Jian Cao, Xulong Wang, Yong Tang, Bin Wang, Baoli Xiang, Sufang Kang, and Wenfang Lan

AAPG Bulletin

... of organic matter is another important parameter for the assessment of source rock potential. Indicators of maturity include vitrinite reflectance (Ro...

Multiple Oil Families in the West Siberian Basin

K. E. Peters , A. Eh. Kontorovich , B. J. Huizinga , J. M. Moldowan , C. Y. Lee

AAPG Bulletin

... in Peters et al. (1993) and Peters and Moldowan (1993). DISCUSSION The following discussion focuses on oil-to-oil and oil-to-source rock correlations...

A New Technique for the Analysis of Commingled Oils and Its Application to Production Allocation Calculations

R. L. Kaufman, A. S. Ahmed, W. B. Hempkins

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... applications1 such as: identification and characterization of source rocks, oil to oil and oil to source rock correlations, maturation measurements...

Empirical relationship between gas composition and thermal maturity in Eagle Ford Shale, south Texas

Tongwei Zhang, Xun Sun, Kitty L. Milliken, Stephen C. Ruppel, and Daniel Enriquez

AAPG Bulletin

... of retained oil and expelled oil from source rocks highly depends on source rock mineralogy, lithology stacking pattern, organic matter type, thermal...

Mandal-Ekofisk(!) Petroleum System in the Central Graben of the North Sea: Chapter 33: Part VI. Case Studies--Eastern Hemisphere

Chris Cornford

AAPG Special Volumes

... 62% of the system's reserves, is the major reservoir rock. An excellent oil source rock correlation based on molecular and isotopic correlations...

Abstract: Stable Carbon Isotopes for Constraining Sequence Stratigraphic and Paleogeographic Interpretations of Carbonate Successions: Fact or Fantasy?, by Ruppel, Stephen C.; Rowe, Harry; #90163 (2013)

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Chemical and Isotopic Composition of Carbonates in Recent Sediments and Soils from Western Europe

W. Salomons

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... climate regions is FIG. 4. The stable isotopic composition of ancient carbonates (Keith and Weber, 1964) and of soil carbonates. The data for the soil...

Geochemical Characterization of Rocks and Fluids from Liberia and Sierra Leone Offshore.

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Intra-Delta Versus Sub-Delta Sourcing of Petroleum - a Global Review, by Olukayode J. Samuel, and D. Martin Jones, and Chris Cornford, #40243 (2007).

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Methane in Columbia River Basalt Aquifers: Isotopic and Geohydrologic Evidence for a Deep Coal-Bed Gas Source in the Columbia Basin, Washington

Vernon G. Johnson , David L. Graham , Stephen P. Reidel

AAPG Bulletin

... increase as observed for DC-16 (Figure 6A), as would be expected for mixing with a high-methane, deeper source. However, no methane isotopic data were...

Comparison of Isotopic and Petrographic Provenance Indicators in Sediments from Tertiary Continental Basins of New Mexico

Bruce K. Nelson , Donald J. DePaolo

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... provenance indicators. The data also suggest that the isotopic tracer is more sensitive to minor detrital input from a second source than is the framework...

Effect of Biodegradation and Water Washing on Crude Oil Composition: Chapter 4: PETROLEUM GENERATION AND MIGRATION

Susan E. Palmer

AAPG Special Volumes

...-oil correlation), depositional environments, and time of oil generation (i.e., thermal maturity of the source rock at the time of oil generation...

Potential of 13C/12C Variations in Bacterial Methane in Assessing Origin of Environmental Methane

A. M. Zyakun

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Isotopic effects associated with bacterial methane generation depend on the specific methane production rate, that is, the amount of methane produced...

Oxygen Isotopic and Petrographic Evidence Relevant to the Origin of the Arkansas Novaculite

Daphne L. Jones, L. Paul Knauth

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... and sponge spicules are preserved only as petrographic ghosts. The isotopic and petrographic data can be interpreted in terms of a siliceous biogenic ooze...

Diagenetic Stabilization of Aragonite and Low-Mg Calcite, II. Stable Isotopes in Rudists

Ihsan S. Al-Aasm, Jan Veizer

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

.... Acta, v. 12, p. 133-149. CZERNIAKOWSKI, L. A., LOHMANN, K. C., AND WILSON, J. L., 1984, Closed-system marine burial diagenesis: isotopic data from...

Stratigraphic Distributions of Volatile Compounds in Samples of the Cretaceous Mowry Shale, Wind River and Bighorn Basins, Determined by Vacuum Extraction and Cryotrap-Mass Spectrometry

Christopher M. Smith, Michael P. Smith, Justin E. Birdwell

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... data (donated to the USGS Core Research Center in Denver, CO) based on standard source rock characterization methods like programmed pyrolysis and X-ray...

Glossary of Terms Applicable to Petroleum Geochemistry

Frederick W. Vlierboom

AAPG Special Volumes

... in chemical composition. MATURITY INDEX: Chemical parameter indicating maturity* of an oil source rock, e.g., the isoprenoid index,* the naphthene...

Recent Advances in Petroleum Geochemistry Applied to Hydrocarbon Exploration

B. P. Tissot

AAPG Bulletin

.... Following important advances in identification of biological markers in sediments and crude oils, these markers are used for oil-source rock...