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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dembicki, Harry, Jr., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum--Geology.

Petroleum.

Petroleum--Prospecting.

Geochemistry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (426 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Kidlington, Oxford ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : Elsevier, [2022]

Summary:

Practical Petroleum Geochemistry for Exploration and Production, Second Edition provides readers with a single reference that addresses the principle concepts and applications of petroleum geochemistry used in finding, evaluating, and producing petroleum deposits. The revised volume includes a new chapter on environmental forensic applications of petroleum geochemistry. With the current emphasis on environmental issues (pollution, climate changes, and corporate responsibility), information about how petroleum geochemistry can be used to recognize these problems, determine their source, help identify who is responsible, and how these problems may be mitigated are vital to efficient and economical operation of a project from exploration to production to abandonment.

Contents:

Front Cover

PRACTICAL PETROLEUM GEOCHEMISTRY FOR EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION

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CONTENTS

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

References

2 - The formation of petroleum accumulations

Incorporating organic matter into sediments

Kerogen 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

Total Organic Carbon

Rock-Eval pyrolysis

Solvent 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

Pyrolysis-gas chromatography

Kerogen isolation

Elemental analysis

Vitrinite reflectance

Interferences with vitrinite reflectance

Maturity interpretations with vitrinite reflectance

Alternative reflectance method

Solid bitumen reflectance

Graptolite, scolecodont, and chitinozoan reflectance

Visual kerogen typing

Thermal alteration index

Kerogen fluorescence

Conodont alteration index

Wireline log interpretations.

Source rock presence interpretations

Using outcrop samples

Strategies in source rock evaluation

Background information

Defining the problem

Making interpretations

4 - Interpreting crude oil and natural gas data

Bulk properties of crude oil and natural gas

Phase behavior

Crude oil and natural gas alteration

Oil-to-oil and oil-to-source rock correlations

Mass spectrometry

Biomarker analysis

Crude oil inversion

Strategies and obstacles in oil correlation and oil inversion studies

Natural gas data

The source of natural gas: biogenic versus thermogenic

The maturity of thermogenic natural gas

Gas-to-gas and gas-to-source rock correlations

Strategies and obstacles in interpreting gas data

5 - Reservoir geochemistry

Pay zone detection

Mud gas analysis

Mud gas data interpretation

Fluorescence and cut

Isotubes

Solvent extraction/gas chromatography

Thermal extraction-gas chromatography (TEGC)

High-molecular-weight waxes

Reservoir continuity

Reservoir continuity using mud gas data

Reservoir continuity using oil samples

Reservoir continuity using gas samples

Production allocation

Production problems and periodic sampling

Monitoring enhanced oil recovery

Reservoir souring

Strategies in reservoir geochemistry

6 - Surface geochemistry

Microseepage

Direct indicators of hydrocarbon microseepage

Indirect indicators of hydrocarbon micro-seepage

Microseepage survey design and interpretation

Onshore macroseepage

Offshore macroseepage

Locating potential seafloor seep sites

Sampling potential seafloor seep sites.

Analyzing seafloor sediments for thermogenic hydrocarbons

Sea surface slicks

7 - Unconventional resources

Coalbed methane

Shale gas

Shale oil

Hybrid systems

Hydrates

8 - Basin modeling

Burial history

Thermal history

Modeling maturation, hydrocarbon generation, and expulsion

Modeling migration

Predicting preservation

1-D model results

Model validation

Sensitivity analysis

Volumetric estimations

The role of basin modeling in unconventional plays

9 - Petroleum system concepts and tools

Elements and processes

Temporal aspects

Spatial aspects

Plays and prospects

A working petroleum system

Risking

10 - Environmental applications

The scope of environmental problems

The fate of environmental contamination

Tools for environmental studies

Detection and monitoring contamination events

Sample analysis

Strategies in environmental geochemistry

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Dembicki, Harry Practical Petroleum Geochemistry for Exploration and Production

ISBN:

9780323959230