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Comment and Reply on "Analysis of the Cache Valley deposits in Illinois and implications regarding the late Pleistocene-Holocene development of the Ohio River Valley"
Effects of Biodegradation on Crude Oils
Abstract A suite of common-source crude oils and tar sands from Murray and Garvin counties, Oklahoma, were analyzed in detail to define the physical and chemical effects of progressive biodegradation on a crude oil. Biodegradation decreases the gravity from 32° to 4°API and increases the sulfur from 0.6 to 1.6 wt % and metals content from 47 to 293 ppm. The changes in chemical class compositions are a decrease in saturates from 55 to 20 wt %, an increase in polars from 21 to 41 wt %, and an increase in asphaltenes from 2 to 21 wt% The chemical fossil composition is affected. The n-alkanes, isoprenoids, light aromatics, and light thiophenes are completely removed, with a resultant concentration of naphthenes and heavy or highly branched aromatics and thiophenes. In the most severely degraded samples, steranes are partially removed. Diasteranes and triaromatic steranes, however, appear to be resistant to bacterial attack.
North Slope Alaska Oil-Rock Correlation Study
Abstract The major objective of the U.S. Geological Survey-sponsored cooperative North Slope Alaska oil-rock correlation study was to establish, using a diversity of geochemical techniques, which formation(s) served as source(s) of the crude oils from the North Slope of Alaska. A second objective was to allow intercomparison and calibration of geochemical technologies among the university, petroleum industry, government, and private geochemical laboratories participating in the study. Two major groups of oils were identified. Group I includes oils from the Umiat and Simpson areas. These oils are generally low in sulfur, nitrogen, and asphaltenes, have medium gravities, have nickel/vanadium ratios ≥ and pristane/phytane ratios >1.5, and are high in diasteranes. Group II includes oils from the Barrow, Fish Creek, and Prudhoe Bay areas. These oils are generally high in sulfur, nitrogen, and asphaltenes, have low gravities, have nickel/vanadium ratios <1 and pristane/phytane ratios <1.5, and are moderate in diasteranes. Both groups of oils are of mixed but predominantly marine source input and are quite mature thermally. The triterpane patterns of the Group I oils contain certain C 30 pentacyclics, are low in tricyclics, and have hopane > norhopane. The Group II oils are devoid of the C 30 pentacyclics found in Group I oils, high in tricyclics, and have norhopane > hopane. The Kingak Shale appears to be the principal source of the Group I oils. However, the Group I, Seabee No. 1 condensate is believed to originate in the Torok Formation. The Group II oils have their principal source in the Shublik Formation but have to varying degrees the Kingak as a co-source. The Barrow pebble shale sandstone oil has major Kingak input; the Barrow Sag River Sandstone, Fish Creek, and Prudhoe Bay oils have minor Kingak input. The Dalton area oil produced from the Lisburne Group, included in Group II because of its overall similarity to these oils, is believed to be indigenous to the Lisburne.