Practical petroleum geochemistry for exploration and production / Harry Dembicki, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Cover; PRACTICAL PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY FOR EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION; PRACTICAL PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY FOR EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 -- Introduction; Introduction; A BRIEF HISTORY OF PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY; DEFINITIONS; Petroleum; Geochemistry; Petroleum System; Sedimentary Organic Matter; Other Sedimentary Organic Deposits; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY REVIEW; Covalent Bonds; Hydrocarbons; Aromatic Hydrocarbons; N-S-O Compounds; Asphaltenes; Reactions; STABLE ISOTOPE REVIEW; 2 -- The Formation of Petroleum Accumulations; INTRODUCTION.

INCORPORATING ORGANIC MATTER INTO SEDIMENTSKEROGEN FORMATION; SOURCE ROCK DEPOSITION; MATURATION AND HYDROCARBON GENERATION; PETROLEUM MIGRATION; ORIGIN OF NONHYDROCARBON GASES; Carbon Dioxide; Nitrogen; Hydrogen Sulfide; Helium; Hydrogen; COALS AS OIL-PRONE SOURCE ROCKS; SUMMARY; 3 -- Source Rock Evaluation; DEFINITIONS AND FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS; SAMPLE COLLECTION; Cuttings; Headspace Gas/Canned Cuttings; Drilling Mud and Mud Additive Sample; Core and Sidewall Cores; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; ROCK-EVAL PYROLYSIS; Source Richness Interpretations; Thermal Maturity Interpretations.

Source Quality InterpretationsSOLVENT EXTRACTION, S-A-R-A ANALYSIS, AND EXTRACT DATA; Source Richness and Quality Interpretations; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; Source Quality Interpretations; Thermal Maturity Interpretations; Recognizing Contamination; HEADSPACE GAS ANALYSIS; Source Richness Interpretations; Thermal Maturity Interpretations; PYROLYSIS-GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; KEROGEN ISOLATION; ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS; VITRINITE REFLECTANCE; Interferences With Vitrinite Reflectance; Lack of Vitrinite; Cavings and Reworked Vitrinite; Unconformities/Normal Faults; Reverse Faults.

Change in Geothermal Gradient/Heat FlowIgneous Intrusives; Suppression and Misidentification; Vitrinite Anisotropy; Maturity Interpretations With Vitrinite Reflectance; ALTERNATIVE REFLECTANCE METHOD; Liptinite/Sporinite/Exinite Reflectance; Solid Bitumen Reflectance; Graptolite, Scolecodont, and Chitinozoan Reflectance; VISUAL KEROGEN TYPING; THERMAL ALTERATION INDEX; KEROGEN FLUORESCENCE; CONODONT ALTERATION INDEX; WIRELINE LOG INTERPRETATIONS; Gamma Ray; Formation Density; Sonic Transit Time; Resistivity; Source Rock Presence Interpretations; Source Richness Interpretations.

Thermal Maturity InterpretationsUSING OUTCROP SAMPLES; STRATEGIES IN SOURCE ROCK EVALUATION; Background Information; Defining the Problem; Making Interpretations; 4 -- Interpreting Crude Oil and Natural Gas Data; INTRODUCTION; BULK PROPERTIES OF CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS; API Gravity; Gas Specific Gravity; Viscosity; Pour Point; Cloud Point; Flash Point; Weight Percent Sulfur; Nickel (Ni) and Vanadium (V) Contents; S-A-R-A; Solution Gas-Oil Ratio and Solution Oil-Gas Ratio; Heating Value of Natural Gas; PHASE BEHAVIOR; CRUDE OIL AND NATURAL GAS ALTERATION; Thermal Alteration; Biodegradation.

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Practical Petroleum Geochemistry for Exploration and Production provides readers with a single reference that addresses the principle concepts and applications of petroleum geochemistry used in finding, evaluating, and producing petroleum deposits. Today, there are few reference books available on how petroleum geochemistry is applied in exploration and production written specifically for geologists, geophysicists, and petroleum engineers. This book fills that void and is based on training courses that the author has developed over his 37-year career in hydrocarbon exploration and production. Specific topical features include the origin of petroleum, deposition of source rock, hydrocarbon generation, and oil and gas migrations that lead to petroleum accumulations. Also included are descriptions on how these concepts are applied to source rock evaluation, oil-to-oil, and oil-to-source rock correlations, and ways of interpreting natural gas data in exploration work. Finally, a thorough description on the ways petroleum geochemistry can assist in development and production work, including reservoir continuity, production allocation, and EOR monitoring is presented. Authored by an expert in petroleum geochemistry, this book is the ideal reference for any geoscientist looking for exploration and production content based on extensive field-based research and expertise.