Application of Analytical Techniques to Petroleum Systems
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.
An automatic approach for characterization of the thermal maturity of dispersed organic matter Raman spectra at low diagenetic stages
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Published:October 19, 2020
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Andrea Schito, Sveva Corrado, 2020. "An automatic approach for characterization of the thermal maturity of dispersed organic matter Raman spectra at low diagenetic stages", Application of Analytical Techniques to Petroleum Systems, Patrick J. Dowey, Mark Osborne, Herbert Volk
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Abstract
An automatic approach for analyses of Raman spectra of dispersed organic matter in diagenesis is proposed in this work. The need for a reproducible method of thermal maturity assessment by means of Raman spectroscopic analyses on the organic matter is essential for the development of this technique as a robust support in organic petrographical analyses. The new method was tested on concentrated kerogen derived from a set of 33 samples that originated from cuttings from a 5000 m-thick section drilled in offshore Angola. The proposed method can be applied separately in the D and G bands regions of the Raman spectra, and uses a fitting approach based on asymmetrical Gaussian deconvolution and on the measurement of the integrated area. Results from this work demonstrate that Raman parameters carried out by the new methods reflect the increase in aromaticity in kerogen in diagenesis. Finally, two parametric equations have been proposed to correlate Raman parameters and thermal maturity: the first is for the thermal maturity interval between 0.3 and 1.5% Ro; and the second has a higher precision of between 1.0 and 1.5% Ro. The two equations are the result of a multi-linear regression based on robust correlations between Raman parameters and vitrinite reflectance (Ro%).
- Africa
- Angola
- carbonaceous composition
- Cenozoic
- Central Africa
- characterization
- clastic rocks
- Congo Basin
- cuttings
- deconvolution
- depth
- diagenesis
- filters
- genesis
- inertinite
- kerogen
- macerals
- Miocene
- Neogene
- Oligocene
- organic compounds
- Paleogene
- petroleum
- precision
- Raman spectra
- regression analysis
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- shale
- source rocks
- spectra
- statistical analysis
- Tertiary
- thermal maturity
- vitrinite
- vitrinite reflectance
- Malembo Formation