Analysis of Artificially Matured Shales With Confocal Laser Scanning Raman Microscopy: Applications to Organic Matter Characterization

Grant A. Myers, Kelsey Kehoe, Paul Hackley

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... is prohibited. Summary Raman spectroscopy has been suggested as a method for characterizing the thermal maturity of rocks. The literature contains many empirical...

ABSTRACT: Geochemical, petrographical and thermal characteristics of Barren Measures shales of Jharia coal basin, India and their implications for hydrocarbon generation and production.

Atul Kumar Varma, Balram Tiwari, Asutosh Mondal, Vinod Atmaram Mendhe, Sanki Biswas

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

...ABSTRACT: Geochemical, petrographical and thermal characteristics of Barren Measures shales of Jharia coal basin, India and their implications...

Geothermal Parameters of in situ Rb…Sr Dating on Proterozoic Shales and Its Applications

Darwinaji Subarkah, Angus L. Nixon, Monica Jimenez, Alan S. Collins, Morgan L. Blades, Juraj Farkas, Sarah E. Gilbert, Simon Holford

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... alteration. However, the thermal sensitivity of the Rb–Sr isotopic system across geological timescales in shale-hosted clay minerals is not well...

Abstract: Temperature, Maturity and Timing of Hydrocarbon Generation in the Central Graben and Terchelling Basin, Dutch Part of North Sea Basin, by M. S. C. Echternach, H. Verweij, A. Fattah, and P. David; #90091 (2009)

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Do Kinetic Parameters from Open Pyrolysis Describe Petroleum Generation by Simulated Maturation?

Tanja Barth, Birthe J. Schmidt, Soren B. Nielsen

CSPG Bulletin

... fraction is used to estimate the initial generation potential. The thermal maturation process observed in the hydrous pyrolysis experiments give an abrupt...

Lower Paleozoic Thermal Maturity and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Keith Dewing, Mark Obermajer

CSPG Bulletin

... as a maturation index for different types of organic matter: comparison with vitrinite reflectance. In: Thermal Modeling in Sedimentary Basins. J. Burrus...

Shallow Temperatures and Thermal Regime in the Hydrocarbon Province of Tierra del Fuego

Gary W. Zielinski , Peter M. Bruchhausen

AAPG Bulletin

...Shallow Temperatures and Thermal Regime in the Hydrocarbon Province of Tierra del Fuego Gary W. Zielinski , Peter M. Bruchhausen 1983 166 177 67 1...

Continental Margin Subsidence and Heat Flow: Important Parameters in Formation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons

Leigh Royden , J. G. Sclater , R. P. Von Herzen

AAPG Bulletin

... thermal potential for hydrocarbon maturation. As mentioned, it is necessary to subtract the component of subsidence due to sediment loading from the total...

Expression of the Colorado Mineral Belt in Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Formation Source Rock Maturity Data from the Denver Basin

David J. Thul, Stephen A. Sonnenberg

Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists

... geoscientists regarding the source, duration, and magnitude of thermal anomalies and their effects on source rock maturation. At the core of these debates...

Chemical and Isotopic Evidence of the Origins of Natural Gases in Offshore Gulf of Mexico

Dudley D. Rice

GCAGS Transactions

... are biognic enrichment of 12C1, thermal cracking, and mixing. Separate trends are present in Texas and Louisiana which suggest a higher geothermal gradient...

Mobile or Immobile: Hydrocarbon Characterization from the Comparison of Various Extraction Techniques to Produced Oils

J. Alex Zumberge, Stephanie Perry, Kai Cheng, Catherine M. Donohue

Unconventional Resources Technology Conference (URTEC)

... River, Gulf Coast and Delaware Basins. We employ tailored thermal and chemical extraction techniques from whole core samples to characterize...

Modeling Oil Generation with Time-Temperature Index Graphs Based on the Arrhenius Equation (1)

JOHN M. HUNT , M. D. LEWAN , and R. J-C. HENNET

AAPG Bulletin

...------------------------------ Hagen, E. S., and R. C. Surdam, 1984, Maturation history and thermal evolution of Cretaceous source rocks of the Bighorn Basin...

AFTA®-Calibrated 2-D Modelling of Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Using Temispack®: Preliminary Results from the Otway Basin

I. R. Duddy, B. Erout

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... reconstructions (Duddy 1997). Duddy (1997) presented thermal, burial and source rock maturation histories derived from AFTA and vitrinite reflectance results...

Irian Jaya-Papua New Guinea Hydrocarbon Exploration: Constraints from Regional Distribution of Geothermal Gradients and Heat Flow

John D. Pigott

Indonesian Petroleum Association

... 75 100 Heat flow, geothermal gradients, and bulk thermal conductivities compiled from published and unpublished bottom hole temperatures (corrected...

Determination of Paleoheat Flux from Vitrinite Reflectance Data

I. Lerche , R. F. Yarzab , C. G. St. C. Kendall

AAPG Bulletin

... of time without some independent check of their validity. Second, the exact nature of the relationship of thermal history to thermal maturation...

Basin Evaluation by Integrated Two-Dimensional Modeling of Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, Hydrocarbon Generation, and Migration (1)

P. UNGERER , J. BURRUS , B. DOLIGEZ , P. Y. CHENET , and F. BESSIS

AAPG Bulletin

.... Audebert, 1990, personal communication). Temperature Regime and Maturation Discussion of thermal simulations is based on present temperatures and present...

Organic Geochemistry and Biological Marker Geochemistry of Schei Point Group (Triassic) and Recovered Oils from the Sverdrup Basin (Arctic Islands, Canada)

P.W. Brooks, A.F. Embry, F. Goodarzi, R. Stewart

CSPG Bulletin

... and sedimentology of the Triassic source strata are briefly described and the results of a detailed organic geochemical analysis of the thermal maturation...

Salts Effects on Petroleum Systems

Thomas Smith

GEO ExPro Magazine

... conductivity (2 to 4 times that of other sediments), thermal maturation of sub-salt source rocks can be retarded while maturation of the supra-salt...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Geochemical characterization of kerogen density fractions and artificial mixtures of purified macerals from the Eocene Huadian oil shale, NE China

Xiaomin Xie, Jin Xu, Jianzhong Qin, Fenting Wu, Jingwen Lin

The Society for Organic Petrology (TSOP)

... is isotopically enriched because Botryococcus sp. is typically significantly enriched in 13C (δ13C = −24.6 ‰). Artificial thermal maturation hydrocarbon...

Comparative Diagenesis and Isotopic Geochemistry of the Swan Hills and Leduc Carbonates, Devonian “Deep Basin” Area of West-Central Alberta

Hairuo Qing, Jack Wendte, Howard King

CSPG Special Publications

... derived from thermal maturation may have played a more significant role in the formation of these components in the Swan Hills Formation than...

Inferring Kerogen Kinetics for Exploration in the Timor Sea Region

David C. Lowry

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

...) calculation became a valued tool for modelling the maturity of a source rock based on its thermal history. The TTl calculation assumed that rate of cracking...

The Garbutt Formation of Liard Basin, British Columbia: a potential liquids-rich play

Filippo Ferri, Margot McMechan, Omid H. Ardakani, Hamed Sanei

CSPG Bulletin

...) of the Garbutt Formation. The newly available data from this study delineates an area within the Liard Basin where thermal maturation levels...

Classification of Offshore Gulf of Mexico Oils and Gas Condensates (1)

KEITH F. M. THOMPSON , MAHLON C. KENNICUTT II , and JAMES M. BROOKS

AAPG Bulletin

... content and isotopic ratios of sulfur during petroleum maturation-study of Big Horn basin Paleozoic oils: AAPG Bulletin, v. 50, p. 2295-2318. Orr, W. L...

Geochemical Service Report: Regional Hydrocarbon Source Rock Evaluation Study: Twenty-Three (23) Significant Wells from the Permian Basin Well Report 6 Chevron Oil Company Blackstone-Slaughter #1 Well Sec. 1, Blk. 130, T&STL RR Company Survey. Pecos County, Texas T.D. 20,077’

GeoChem Laboratories Inc.

West Texas Geological Society

... mature paraffino-naphthenic oil and associated “wet” gas. If these rocks would be subjected to higher thermal conditions such as would be expected...

Petroleum System of the Northern and Central Bolivian Subandean Zone

P. Baby, I. Moretti, B. Guillier, R. Limachi, E. Mendez, M. Specht

Asociación Colombiana de Geólogos y Geofisicos del Petróleo (ACGGP)

... A coupled study of the kinematic of thrusting and of the HC maturation has been carried out in the northern and central Bolivian Subandean Zone in order...