Carbon Isotope Composition of Natural Methane Occurrences: GEOLOGICAL NOTES

William M. Sackett

AAPG Bulletin

... by bacterial processes. Colombo et al. (1966) suggested that the chemical and isotopic data for the many Italian natural gases of Tertiary age, shown...

The North Slope Foreland Basin, Alaska: Chapter 13

Kenneth J. Bird, Cornelius M. Molenaar

AAPG Special Volumes

... as related to oil-source rock correlations, in I. Tailleur and P. Weimer, eds., Alaskan North Slope geology: Bakersfield, California, SEPM, Pacific Section...

Geologic evolution of the Iraqi Zagros, and its influence on the distribution of hydrocarbons in the Kurdistan region

Joseph M. English, Grenville A. Lunn, Luke Ferreira, and George Yacu

AAPG Bulletin

...-oil window, and do not reflect the original source rock quality. Data sources include Abeed (2006); Al-Ahmed (2006); Ahmed (2007); Jabbar (2007...

Identification of Novel Deep Sources in Mature Basins Using Diamondoids

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Blackened Smackover: Thermal Evolution and Mass Transfer Adjacent to a Subsurface Alkalic Igneous Dike in Northern Louisiana

B. Dutrow , D. J. Henry , C. Christensen , C. W. Gable , B. J. Travis , E. Heydari

GCAGS Transactions

... , C. Christensen , C. W. Gable , B. J. Travis , E. Heydari 1997 Vol. 47 (1997), The Smackover Formation is a major hydrocarbon source rock...

Surface Geochemical Exploration and Heat Flow Surveys in Fifteen (15) Frontier Indonesian Basins

Bernie B. Bernard, James M. Brooks, Peter Baillie, John Decker, Philip A. Teas, Daniel L. Orange

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... be used to characterize oil properties, maturity, and source rock type. The spatial coincidence of seepage and geologic structure allows...

Using SARA Data to Reduce Uncertainty about the Type of Petroleum Fluid in the Woodford Formation and the Meramec Formation in the Anadarko Basin and the Arkoma Basin, Oklahoma, #41845 (2016).

Alan S. Kornacki, Doran B. Eddins

Search and Discovery.com

... and the STACK area in the Anadarko Basin. Oil-prone source rock beds in the Woodford Formation generated the crude oil and wet gas produced from...

Abstract: Chemical and Carbon Isotopic Gas Compositions from the Wolfcamp in Midland Basin and Their Significance as Geochemical Tracers for Well Completion;

Tongwei Zhang, Lucy Ko, Xun Sun, Di Meng, Scott Hamlin

Search and Discovery.com

... in higher ratios of iC4/nC4, iC5/nC5 in Wolfcamp B. Crushed rock gas data from cored wells in this study provide important reference data...

Oil Source Beds and Oil Prospect Definition in the Upper Tertiary of the Gulf Coast

Wallace G. Dow

GCAGS Transactions

... in a plethora of ideas that are long on speculation and short on substantiating data. When oil source beds could not be identified, it was generally...

Petroleum distribution in the Montney hybrid play: Source, carrier bed, and structural controls

Tristan Euzen, Neil Watson, Martin Fowler, Andy Mort, and Thomas F. Moslow

AAPG Bulletin

... unconventional light oil plays. In shale oil plays, the source rock is also the reservoir, whereas in tight oil plays, source rocks and reservoirs are closely...

ABSTRACT: The Limit of Gas Generation Potential of Highly to Over Mature Humic Coals: Theoretical Consideration; #90134 (2011)

Jianping Chen, Yongge Sun, and Chunping Deng

Search and Discovery.com

... of thermal degraded gas from coals The H/C atom ratio in kerogen can be a good indicator for hydrocarbon generation potential of source rock...

A Study of Natural Gas Origins in China

Xu Yongchang, Shen Ping

AAPG Bulletin

... effect of the source rock and a heavy methane carbon isotopic composition due to the effect of the precursor (^dgr13C1<-30^pmil), can be distinguished...

Numerical Correlation of Middle and Upper Precambrian Sediments

Michel G. Bonhomme

AAPG Special Volumes

... age determinations on sedimentary Precambrian sequences have been published. These measurements were made on whole-rock samples, clay fractions...

Devonian Petroleum Systems in Queensland

J. J. Draper, C. J. Boreham, K. L. Hoffmann, J. L. McKellar

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...' if oil-source rock or gas-source rock correlations are established. It is a 'hypothetical' system if geochemical evidence indicates the origin of oil...

The Petroleum Geology of Western Turkmenistan: The Gograndag-Okarem Province

Max A. Torres

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the oil-window top is approximately at 4000 m (13,124 ft) in the producing areas. The postulated source rock is interpreted as the Maikop Series...

Diagenesis and Porosity Distribution of Pennsylvanian Paradox Formation Carbonates (Upper Ismay), Southeastern Utah

James V. White, Brenda L. Kirkland

Utah Geological Association

..., Calculation of simultaneous isotopic and trace element variations during water-rock interactions with applications to carbonate diagenesis: Geochimica et...

The "Productivity Versus Preservation" Controversy: Cause, Flaws, and Resolution

R.V. Tyson

Special Publications of SEPM

... generated upon maturation but also control the amount of hydrocarbons and the oil-to-gas ratio likely to be expelled from the source rock (Pepper...

Salinian Block U/Pb Age and Isotopic Variations: Implications for Origin and Emplacement of the Salinian Terrane

James M. Mattinson, Eric W. James

Circum Pacific Council Publications

... to the age and nature of the source of the magmas that fed the Salinian plutons. Such data also shed light on the provenance of the protoliths...

Reference Section for the Horn River Group and Definition of the Bell Creek Member, Hare Indian Formation in central Northwest Territories

Leanne J. Pyle, Len P. Gal

CSPG Bulletin

...: A geochemical oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation. In: Sequence, Stratigraphy, Sedimentology: Surface and Subsurface. D.P. James and D.A. Leckie (eds...

Recognition and sources of secondary biogenic gases in the oil sand areas, Western Canada Sedimentary Basin

Haiping Huang

CSPG Bulletin

... Gases Gas isotopic data associated with the WCSB heavy oils and oil sands are rarely available in public domain, however, a few mud gas log profiles...

Diagenesis and Sedimentology of the Clearwater Formation at Tucker Lake

Ian Hutcheon, Hugh J. Abercrombie,, Peter Putnam, Rob Gardner, H. Roy Krouse

CSPG Bulletin

... -13.59 to -7.60‰. INTERPRETATION OF ISOTOPIC DATA Carbon and oxygen isotopic compositions for oil-free and water zone samples, shown in Figure 11, lie...

4-Methyl-24-Ethylcholestane in Upper Permian Fossil Conifer Wood from Paleo-Midlatitude of NE Pangea, Wutonggou Low-Order Cycle, Southern Bogda Mountains, NW, #51432 (2017).

Xin Zhan, Wan Yang, Qiao Feng, Yujiao Zhang, Yankuan Tian

Search and Discovery.com

... of this biomarker in geological records makes it an effective proxy for nonmarine sequence stratigraphic correlation and oil-oil and oil-source rock correlation...

The Relationship of Organic Components to Source Rocks Types Based on Biomarker Data at Central Sumatra Basin

Anil, Asy’ari Alfin Giovany, Yarra Sutadiwiria

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... when analyzing oil or source rock samples is to know the characteristic of the hydrocarbon and correlate it with reaction during the deposition...

Uranium and Thorium in Selected Quaternary Volcanic Rocks of Guatemala and Sumatra: Evidence for Uranium Redistribution

William I. Rose Jr., Theodore J. Bornhorst

AAPG Special Volumes

... are shown in Figure 2. In general, absolute U and Th concentrations and isotopic ratios are in mass balance, the whole-rock data are reconcilable...

Reservoir Quality Development in the Oligocene of the Topkhana-1 Well, Block 39, Kurdistan, Iraq, #50941 (2014)

Jean C.C. Hsieh, Normand Begin, Ross Deutscher

Search and Discovery.com

... the Group. Topkhana-1 was cored to better understand the distribution of reservoir rock in the subsurface. This paper presents the description of that core...