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.
Using polar nitrogen-, sulphur- and oxygen-compound compositions from ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry for petroleum fluid assessment in the Eagle Ford Formation, Texas Available to Purchase
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Published:October 19, 2020
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CitationS. Poetz, S. Kuske, Y. Song, J. Jweda, E. Michael, B. Horsfield, 2020. "Using polar nitrogen-, sulphur- and oxygen-compound compositions from ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry for petroleum fluid assessment in the Eagle Ford Formation, Texas", Application of Analytical Techniques to Petroleum Systems, Patrick J. Dowey, Mark Osborne, Herbert Volk
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Abstract
The potential of polar compound compositions from electrospray ionization ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry (FT-ICR-MS) to characterize petroleum fluids as well as petroleum system processes is shown in the example of the Eagle Ford Formation in Texas, USA. A set of six black oil and nine source-rock bitumen samples is investigated with respect to its organic nitrogen-, sulphur- and oxygen-compound inventory in order to assess maturity, depositional environment, lithofacies and retention and migration behaviour. Compared to conventional geochemical tools based on molecular parameters from gas chromatographic analyses, FT-ICR-MS enables a maturity assessment from immature to late mature stage, which is barely influenced by source or depositional environment. Due to the increased molecular mass and polarity range of its target compounds, FT-ICR-MS is the most convincing tool to describe the retention and fractionation of polar compounds in a petroleum system.
- aromatic hydrocarbons
- biomarkers
- bitumens
- carbazoles
- chemical composition
- chromatograms
- Cretaceous
- crude oil
- Eagle Ford Formation
- FTIR spectra
- gas chromatograms
- Gulfian
- high-resolution methods
- hydrocarbons
- infrared spectra
- Jurassic
- lithofacies
- mass spectra
- maturity
- Mesozoic
- migration
- nitrogen
- organic compounds
- oxides
- oxygen
- petroleum
- pigments
- porphyrins
- Posidonia Shale
- sample preparation
- saturation
- source rocks
- spectra
- sulfur
- Texas
- United States
- Upper Cretaceous
- pyridines
- electrospray ionization
- petroleum systems
- pyridones