Application of Analytical Techniques to Petroleum Systems
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Cutting-edge techniques have always been utilized in petroleum exploration and production to reduce costs and improve efficiencies. The demand for petroleum in the form of oil and gas is expected to increase for electricity production, transport and chemical production, largely driven by an increase in energy consumption in the developing world. Innovations in analytical methods will continue to play a key role in the industry moving forwards as society shifts towards lower carbon energy systems and more advantaged oil and gas resources are targeted. This volume brings together new analytical approaches and describes how they can be applied to the study of petroleum systems. The papers within this volume cover a wide range of topics and case studies, in the fields of fluid and isotope geochemistry, organic geochemistry, imaging and sediment provenance. The work illustrates how the current, state-of-the-art technology can be effectively utilised to address ongoing challenges in petroleum geoscience.
Making oil from magma
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Published:October 19, 2020
Abstract
Petroleum systems within rifted margin basins affected by volcanism continue to remain challenging for the exploration of hydrocarbons, most notably owing to the volume of intrusions that pose imaging, drilling and exploration problems. Typically, intrusions possess small thermal aureoles, but despite this, there is evidence that intrusions could none the less be responsible for the generation of commercial volumes of hydrocarbons. Here we shed new light on this petroleum systems challenge by integrating organic geochemical and Raman spectroscopic techniques to produce potential volumetric data for hydrocarbons generated as a result of igneous intrusion. The results indicate that, in areas...
- aliphatic hydrocarbons
- alkanes
- aromatic hydrocarbons
- aureoles
- basins
- carbon
- clastic rocks
- continental margin
- country rocks
- diabase
- dikes
- equations
- Europe
- genesis
- Great Britain
- Hebrides
- Highland region Scotland
- hopanes
- hopanoids
- hydrocarbons
- igneous rocks
- Inner Hebrides
- intrusions
- Inverness-shire Scotland
- Isle of Skye
- magmas
- maturity
- Midland Valley
- mudstone
- n-alkanes
- natural gas
- New Mexico
- organic carbon
- organic compounds
- Orkney Islands
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- phenanthrene
- plutonic rocks
- polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
- Raton Basin
- rift zones
- Scotland
- sedimentary basins
- sedimentary rocks
- sills
- thermal alteration
- total organic carbon
- triterpanes
- United Kingdom
- United States
- volcanism
- Western Europe
- methylphenanthrene
- Staffin Bay
- Kilchoan Scotland