The role of burial diagenesis in hydrocarbon destruction and H 2S accumulation, upper jurassic Smackover Formation, Black Creek Field, Mississippi

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 26-45

  Heydari, Ezat ^a,b,c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BITUMINOUS MATERIALS; CALCITE; DISSOLUTION; HYDROCARBONS; HYDROCRACKING; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; OIL BEARING FORMATIONS; ORGANIC MINERALS; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SIMULATION;

ANHYDRITES; BURIAL DIAGENESIS; CALCITE CEMENTATION; HYDROCARBON DESTRUCTION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; ORGANIC MATTER MATURATION; PREOIL WINDOW DIAGENESIS; SADDLE DOLOMITE; SOLID BITUMEN; THERMOCHEMICAL SULFATE REDUCTION (TSR);

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

ANHYDRITE; BURIAL DIAGENESIS; HYDROCARBON DESTRUCTION; HYDROGEN SULPHIDE; JURASSIC;

USA, MISSISSIPPI, BLACK CREEK FIELD;

EID: 0030806358     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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