Organic compounds trapped in aqueous fluid inclusions

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 29, Issue 1-3 -3 pt 1, 1998, Pages 195-205

  Ruble, Tim E ^a   George, Simon C ^a   Lisk, Mark ^a   Quezada, Robinson A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aqueous inclusions; Benzene; Formation waters; Furan; Oil fields; Volatile hydrocarbons

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; AUSTRALIAN OIL WELLS; FLUID INCLUSION; OIL BEARING INCLUSIONS; PETROLEUM ACCUMULATIONS;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; BENZENE; BIODEGRADATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROCARBONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OIL FIELDS; OIL WELLS;

PETROLOGY;

FLUID INCLUSION; HYDROCARBON; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0032436198     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(98)00090-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (43)

1. Bennett, B. and Larter, S. R. (1997) Partition behaviour of alkylphenols in crude oil/brine systems under subsurface conditions. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 61, 4393-4402.
2. Bertrand. J. C., Caumette, P., Mille, G., Gilewicz, M. and Denis, M. (1989) Anaerobic biodegradation of hydrocarbons. Science Progress 73, 333-350.
3. Bigge, M. A., Petch, G. S., Macleod, G., Larter, S. R. and Aplin, A. C. (1995) Quantitative geochemical analysis of petroleum fluid inclusions. Problems and developments. In Organic Geochemistry: Developments and Applications to Energy. Climate, Environmental and Human History, ed. J. O. Grimalt and C. Dorronsoro, pp. 757-759. A.I.G.O.A. Donostia-San Sebastian.
4. Cozzarelli, I. M., Baedecker, M. J., Eganhouse, R. P. and Goerlitz, D. F. (1994) The geochemical evolution of low-molecular-weight organic acids derived from the degradation of petroleum contaminants in groundwater. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 58, 863-877.
5. Dean, J. A. (1985) Lange's Handbook of Chemistry, 13th edn., 1792 pp. McGraw-Hill, Sydney.
6. Eadington, P. J., Lisk, M. and Krieger, F. W. (1996) Identifying oil well sites, United States Patent No. 5,543,616.
7. Eganhouse, R. P., Baedecker, M. J., Cozzarelli, I. B., Aiken, G. R., Thorn, K. A. and Dorsey, T. F. (1993) Crude oil in a shallow sand and gravel aquifer, II. Organic geochemistry. Applied Geochemistry 8, 551-567.
8. Etminan, H. and Hoffmann, C. F. (1989) Biomarkers in fluid inclusions: a new tool in constraining source regimes and its implications for the genesis of Mississippi Valley-type deposits. Geology 17, 19-22.
9. George, S. C., Eadington, P. J. and Hamilton. P. J. (1995) Organic geochemistry of petroleum-bearing fluid inclusions in quartz grains from a Cretaceous sandstone. In Organic Geochemistry: Developments and Applications to Energy. Climate, Environmental and Human History, ed. J. O. Grimalt and C. Dorronsoro, pp. 282-283. A.I.G.O.A. Donostia-San Sebastian.
10. George, S. C.. Lisk, M., Eadington, P. J., Quezada, R. A., Krieger, F. W., Greenwood, P. F. and Wilson, M. A. (1996) Comparison of palaeo-oil charges with currently reservoired hydrocarbons using the geochemistry of oil-bearing fluid inclusions. SPE paper 36980. Society of Petroleum Engineers Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference, 28-31 October Adelaide, Australia, pp. 159-171.
11. George, S. C., Greenwood, P. F., Logan, G. A., Quezada, R. A., Pang, L. S. K., Lisk, M., Krieger. F. W. and Eadington, P. J. (1997a) Comparison of palaeo oil charges with currently reservoired hydrocarbons using molecular and isotopic analyses of oil-bearing fluid inclusions: Jabiru oil field, Timor sea. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal 37(1), 490-504.
12. George, S. C., Krieger, F. W., Eadington, P. J., Quezada, R. A., Greenwood, P. F., Eisenberg, L. I., Hamilton, P. J. and Wilson, M. A. (1997b) Geochemicai comparison of oil-bearing fluid inclusions and produced oil from the Toro sandstone. Papua New Guinea. Organic Geochemistry 26, 155-173.
13. George, S. C., Ruble, T. E., Greenwood, P. F., Quezada, R. A., Eadington, P. J., Lisk, M., Pang, L. S. K., Krieger, F. W., Pallasser, R., Hamilton, P. J. and Wilson, M. A. (1997c) A new methodology for tracing oil migration pathways from source to reservoir: main report. Energy Research and Development Corporation of Australia (ERDC) End of Project Report, Project No. 2519, 220 pp.
14. George, S. C., Lisk, M., Eadington, P. J., Krieger. F. W., Quexada, R. A., Greenwood, P. F. and Wilson, M. A. (1997d) Fluid inclusion record of early oil preserved at Jabiru Field. Vulcan Sub-basin. Exploration Geophysics 28, 66-71.
15. George, S. C., Lisk, M., Summons, R. E. and Quezada, R. A. (1998) Constraining the oil charge history of the South Pepper oilfield from the analysis of oil-bearing fluid inclusions. Organic Geochemistry 29, in press.
16. Hall, D. L. (1996) Application of fluid inclusions to petroleum exploration: some recent advances and case studies. In Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Pan-American Conference on Research on Fluid Inclusions, ed. P. E. Brown and S. G. Hagemann, pp. 59-60. Madison, Wisconsin, (PACROFI VI).
17. Hoffmann, C. F., Henley, R. W., Higgins, N. C., Solomon, M. and Summons, R. E. (1988) Biogenic hydrocarbons in fluid inclusions from the Aberfoyle tintungsten deposit, Tasmania, Australia. Chemical Geology 70, 287-299.
18. Horsfield, B. and McLimans, R. K. (1984) Goethermometry and geochemistry of aqueous and oil-bearing fluid inclusions from Fateh Field, Dubai. Organic Geochemistry 6, 733-740.
19. Isaksen, G. H., Pottorf, R. J. and Jenssen, A. I. (1998) Correlation of fluid inclusions and reservoired oils to infer trap fill history in the South Viking Graben, North Sea. Petroleum Geoscience 4, 41-55.
20. Jensenius, J. and Burruss, R. C. (1990) Hydrocarbon-water interactions during brine migration: evidence from hydrocarbon inclusions in calcite cements from Danish north sea oil fields. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 54, 705-713.
21. Jixi, S., Benchao, L., Jiamo, F., Dehan, L. and Pinan, P. (1988) Organic inclusions and their relations to oil and gas occurrences. Organic Geochemistry 13, 1101-1107.
22. Jochum, J., Germann, A., Friedrich, G., Horsfield, B. and Pickel, W. (1995) Mechanical decrepitation coupled with gas chromatography - A new method for the determination of hydrocarbons in ore minerals. In Mineral Deposits: From Their Origin to Their Environmental Impacts, ed. J. Pasava, B. Kríbeck and K. Zák, pp. 757-760. Proceedings of the Third Biennial SGC Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic, 28-31 August 1995. Balkema, Rotterdam.
23. Jones, D. M., Macleod, G., Larter, S. R., Hall, D. L., Aplin, A. C. and Chen, M. (1996) Characterization of the molecular composition of included petroleum. In Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Pan-American Conference on Research on Fluid Inclusions, ed. P. E. Brown and S. G. Hagemann, pp. 64-65. PACROFI VI. Madison, Wisconsin.
24. Karlsen, D, A., Nedkvitne, T., Larter, S. R. and Bjørlykke, K. (1993) Hydrocarbon composition of authigenic inclusions: application to elucidation of petroleum reservoir filling history. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 57, 3641-3659.
25. Kelly, W. R., Herman, J. S. and Mills, A. L. (1997) The geochemical effects of benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) biodegradation. Applied Geochemistry 12, 291-303.
26. Kihle, J., Johansen, H. and Karlsen, D. (1995a) A fluid inclusion and geochemical study of liquid hydrocarbon-bearing dyke at Tvedestrand, on-shore Norway. Geonyrr, Norwegian Geological Survey 22, 40.
27. 15- extraction of hydrocarbons trapped as fluid inclusions; improved possibilities for isotope determinations and PVT modeling. In Organic Geochemistry: Developments and Applications to Energy, Climate, Environmental and Human History, ed. J. O. Grimalt and C. Dorronsoro. pp. 736-738. A.I.G.O.A. Donostia-San Sebastian.
28. Kvenvolden, K. A. and Roedder, E. (1971) Fluid inclusions in quartz crystals from south-west Africa. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 35, 1209-1229.
29. Lisk, M. and Eadington, P. J. (1994) Oil migration in the Cartier Trough, Vulcan Sub-basin. In The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia, Proceedings of the West Australian Basins Symposium, ed. P. G. Purcell and R. R. Purcell, pp. 301-312. Perth.
30. Lisk, M., George, S. C., Summons, R. E., Quezada, R. A. and O'Brien, G. W. (1996) Mapping hydrocarbon charge histories: detailed characterisation of the South Pepper oil field, Carnarvon Basin. Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal 36(1), 445-464.
31. MacDaniel, R. P. (1988) The geological evolution and hydrocarbon potential of the Western Timor Sea region. In: Petroleum in Australia, The First Century, Australian Petroleum Exploration Association, pp. 270-284.
32. Macleod, G., Taylor, P. N., Larter, S. R. and Aplin, A. C. (1993) Dissolved organics in formation waters: insights into water-oil-rock ratios in petroleum systems. In Geoflitids '93, Contributions to an International Conference on Fluid Evolution, Migration and Interaction in Rocks, ed. J. N. Parnell, A. H. Ruffell and N. R. Moles, pp. 18-20. Geological Society, London.
33. Macleod, G., Petch, S., Larter, S. R. and Aplin, A. C. (1994) Improved analysis of petroleum fluid inclusions: Application to reservoir studies. Abstracts of the 207th ACS National Meeting 1994. Division of Geochemistry, Abstract 132.
34. McAuliffe, C. D. (1966) Solubility in water of paraffin, cycloparaffin, olefin, acetylene, cycloolefin and aromatic hydrocarbons. Journal of Physical Chemistry 70, 1267-1275.
35. Murray. R. C. (1957) Hydrocarbon fluid inclusions in quartz. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 41, 950-956.
36. Nedkvitne, T., Karlsen, D. A., Bjørlykke, K. and Larter, S. R. (1993) Relationship between reservoir diagenetic evolution and petroleum emplacement in the Ula Field, North Sea. Marine Petroleum Geology 10, 255-270.
37. O'Brien. G. W., Lisk, M., Duddy, I., Eadington, P. J., Cadman, S. and Fellows, M. (1996) Late Tertiary fluid migration in the Timor sea: a key control on thermal and diagenetic histories? Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Journal 36(1), 399-427.
38. Price, L. C. (1976) Aqueous solubility of petroleum as applied to its origin and primary migration. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 60, 213-244.
39. Roedder, E. (1984) Fluid Inclusions. Reviews in Mineralogy, 12, ed. P. H. Ribbe. Mineral Society of America, Bookcrafters Inc., Chelsea.
40. Ruble, T. E., Quezada, R. A., George, S. C. and Eadington, P. J. (1997) Correlation of oils trapped in fluid inclusions from the Cooper/Eromanga Basin System, Australia. In Abstracts of 18th International meeting on Organic Geochemistry, 22-26 September 1997. Maastricht. The Netherlands, C26, pp. 595-596. Poster presentation.
41. Skilbeck. G. C., Anthony, D. P., Fabian, M. R., and Hunt. J. W. (1991) Tirrawarra Field - Australia, Cooper Basin, Central Australia. In AAPG Treatise of Petroleum Geology, Structural Traps V, ed. N. H. Foster and E. A. Beaumont, pp. 251-284.
42. Williams, A. F. and Poynton, D. J. (1985) The geology and evolution of the South Pepper hydrocarbon accumulation. Australian Petroleum Exploration Association Journal 25(1), 235-247.
43. Zarrella, W. M., Mousseau, R. J., Coggeshall, M. S., Norris, M. S. and Schrayer, G. J. (1967) Analysis and significance of hydrocarbons in subsurface brines. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 31, 1155-1166.