Determining the temperature of petroleum formation from the kinetic properties of petroleum asphaltenes

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6792, 2000, Pages 173-176

  Di Primio, Rolando ^a,d   Horsfield, Brian ^b   Guzman Vega, Mario A ^c  

^a Saga Petroleum   (Norway)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO MEXICANO DEL PETRÓLEO   (Mexico)

^d STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT; PETROLEUM;

ASPHALTENE; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL EVOLUTION; THERMAL MATURITY;

ARTICLE; DEGRADATION; GEOLOGY; KINETICS; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROLYSIS; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0034644216     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35018046     Document Type: Article

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