Geochemistry of an Oil Seep and Gas Hydrate on the Lower Slope, Central Gulf of Mexico: Significance to Paleogeography and Possible Source Rocks

Roger Sassen, Paul J. Post, Debra A. DeFreitas, Stephen T. Sweet

GCAGS Transactions

... of subsurface reservoirs suggests that an oil-prone Upper Jurassic (Tithoniancentered) source rock may be a significant hydrocarbon source across much...

ABSTRACT: Natural Mixing of Crude Oils From Different Sources in the Bohai Bay Basin, China

C. R. Robison

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

.... Robison Texaco Exploration Technology, 3901 Briarpark Dr., Houston, TX 77042 Many oil reservoirs contain oils from more than one source rock Frequently...

Implications of Stratigraphic Variability of Source Rocks: Chapter 2

B. J. Katz, T. M. Breaux, E. L. Colling , L. M. Darnell, L. W. Elrod, T. Jorjorian, R. A. Royle,V. D. Robison, H. M. Szymczyk, J. L. Trostle, J. P. Wicks

AAPG Special Volumes

.... Variations in geochemical character of many source rock systems can be substantial enough to raise questions on proposed oil-to-source rock correlations...

North Alaska Super Basin: Petroleum systems of the central Alaskan North Slope, United States

W. Dallam Masterson and Albert G. Holba

AAPG Bulletin

... as related to oil-source rock correlations, in L. B. Magoon and G. E. Claypool, eds., Alaska North Slope oil-rock correlation study: AAPG Studies in Geology...

Thermal Maturity Patterns in Alaska: Implications for Tectonic Evolution and Hydrocarbon Potential

Mark J. Johnsson , David G. Howell , Kenneth J. Bird

AAPG Bulletin

.... J., 1987, The framework geology of the North Slope of Alaska as related to oil-source rock correlations, in I. Tailleur and P. Weimer, Alaskan North...

ABSTRACT: ORIGIN AND GENERATION TIMING OF COOK INLET PETROLEUM: CIRCUM-ARCTIC CHEMOMETRICS AND 1-D GEOHISTORY MODELING

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New insights on the Green River petroleum system in the Uinta basin from hydrous pyrolysis experiments

Tim E. Ruble, M. D. Lewan, R. P. Philp

AAPG Bulletin

.... This information provides new insights on lacustrine source rock lithofacies, gas-oil-source rock correlations, hydrocarbon generation kinetics...

2009 Napa AAPG Hedberg Research Conference on Basin and Petroleum Systems Modeling

Marek Kacewicz, Kenneth E. Peters, David J. Curry

AAPG Bulletin

... resulted in substantial error in the calculated depth or age at the top of the oil window in the Jurassic Tuxedni Group source rock: as much as 305 m...

Hydrocarbon Systems of Southeast of West Siberia

I. S. Starobinets, T. N. Nemchenko

Petroleum Geology: A Digest of Russian Literature

... Paleozoic and Mesozoic oil is in the carbon isotope composition. See table 4. Table 4. Variation in Carbon Isotopic Composition of Oils along the Section...

Organic Facies and Petroleum Geochemistry of the Lacustrine Murta Member (Mooga Formation) in the Eromanga Basin, Australia

B. H. Michaelsen, D. M. McKirdy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... to 2180 BOPD. The unit appears to be self-sourcing. The most recent oil-source rock correlations based on alkane biomarker distributions...

Chemostratigraphy Concepts and Case Studies

John Woods, Paul Montgomery, Ted Playton, David Katz, Mitch Harris, Jean Hsieh, Gareth Jones, Bill Robinson, Doug McCarthy, Ken Ratcliffe, Milly Wright, Jennifer Sano, David Wray, Maodu Yan, Eric Tohver, Peter Cawood, Florian Wellmann, Kelly Hillbun, Peter Ward, Joe Kirschvink, Sara Peek, Kliti Grice, Ericin Maslen, Ken Williford, Roger Hocking, Peter Haines, Phillip Playford, Trevor Holland, Updesh Singh, Matthew Duke, Mihai Ducea

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... was that whole rock chemostratigraphy provides both broad and high resolution correlations, however, it was also concluded that chemostratigraphic correlations...

Hydrocarbon migration in the multiple-sourced petroleum system in the northwestern Junggar Basin (northwestern China): Constraint from geochemical and phase fractionation analysis

Aiguo Wang, Zhenliang Wang, Long Li, Changyu Fan, Kuaile Zhang, Baoli Xiang, Ni Zhou, and Yi Wang

AAPG Bulletin

... Oil mixing and absence of source-rock samples make it difficult to identify the hydrocarbon migration routes in a petroleum system. We provide a case...

Chapter 3: Tools and Techniques for Studying Mudstones

O. R. Lazar, K. M. Bohacs, J. Schieber, J. H. S. Macquaker, T. M. Demko

AAPG Special Volumes

..., p. 93–120. Philp, R. P., 1993, Oil-oil and oil-source rock correlations: Techniques, in M. H. Engel, and S. A. Macko, eds., Organic geochemistry...

Paleolimnological Signatures from Carbon and Oxygen Isotopic Ratios in Carbonates, from Organic Carbon-Rich Lacustrine Sediments: Chapter 6

M. R. Talbot, K. Kelts

AAPG Special Volumes

... signatures. Using isotopic data from carbonates from Lake Bosumtwi, Ghana, as a case study, we show that characteristic relationships exist between...

Primary, Non-Milankovitch Marl-Limestone Parasequences, Upper Cretaceous, Alabama

David T. King, Jr.

GCAGS Transactions

... ichnofabric dominated by Thalassinoides but also including Chondrites, Teichichnus, and Zoophycos. Differences in mean whole-rock 18O ( PDB) isotopic ratio...

Relation Between Petroleum and Source Rock

Dietrich H. Welte

AAPG Bulletin

... and their source rocks. In the light of the data presented, it is then shown that oil genesis and migration are very closely related...

Stable Isotope Analyses of Carbonate Complicated by Nitrogen Oxide Contamination: A Delaware Basin Example

David A. Mucciarone , Douglas F. Williams

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

... of a contaminant gas affecting the isotopic composition of acidified carbonate. The whole rock material, when reacted in purified phosphoric acid using...

Depositional Environment of the Early Cretaceous Ostracode Zone: Paleohydrologic Constraints from O, C and SR Isotopes

C. Holmden, K. Muehlenbachs, R. A. Creaser

CSPG Special Publications

.... Steer, unpublished data). Applying a bulk H isotopic fractionation factor between plants and local meteoric waters of +40%0 (Smith et al., 1983), fresh...

Comparison of Carbonate and Shale Source Rocks

R. W. Jones

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the source rock but also on the maturity level of the OM and on the relative ease of migration of gas and oil in different geologic situations...

Early Carboniferous Petroleum Source Rocks of the Southeastern Bonaparte Basin, Australia

J. D. Gorter, D. M. McKirdy

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... source rock identifications and the Early Carboniferous stratigraphy of that corehole, and a rethinking of the basin’s oil-source rock correlations...

Isochron Study of Donegal Granite and Certain Dalradian Rocks of Britain: Chapter 26: Central Orogenic Belt

P. J. Leggo , P. W. G. Tanner , B. E. Leake

AAPG Special Volumes

... that the chemically different limestone has prohibited complete isotopic mixing of strontium. Table III. Whole-Rock Data for Connemara Schist and Islay...

Compositional Variability of Crude Oils and Source Kerogen in the Silurian Carbonate--Evaporite Sequences of the Eastern Michigan Basin, Ontario, Canada

Mark Obermajer, Martin G. Fowler, Lloyd R. Snowdon, Roger W. Macqueen

CSPG Bulletin

... gammacerane, prominent C34 and C35 homohopanes) which not only indicates a single oil family, but also suggests a carbonate source rock deposited...

Isotopic Constraints on the Migration of Hydrocarbon and Helium Gases of Southwestern Ontario

B. Sherwood Lollar, S.M. Weise, S.K. Frape, J.F. Barker

CSPG Bulletin

... and Halpern, H.I. 1987. Organic geochemistry and oil-source correlations, Paleozoic of Ohio. American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Bulletin. v. 71, p...

Nature and Origin of Dry Natural Gas in the Middle Indus Basin, Pakistan; #10935 (2017)

Alan S. Kornacki, Nazir Ahmad, Sajid Sharif

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...-SOURCE ROCK CORRELATIONS USING C ISOTOPIC DATA A “Chung diagram” can be used to estimate the C isotopic composition of the kerogen that generated...