Thermal cracking history by laboratory kinetic simulation of Paleozoic oil in eastern Tarim Basin, NW China, implications for the occurrence of residual oil reservoirs

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1803-1815

  Wang, Yunpeng ^a   Zhang, Shuichang ^b   Wang, Feiyu ^c   Wang, Zhaoyun ^b   Zhao, Changyi ^b   Wang, Hongjun ^b   Liu, Jinzhong ^a   Lu, Jialan ^a   Geng, Ansong ^a   Liu, Dehan ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY   (China)

^b RIPED of PetroChina   (China)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINETIC SIMULATION; OIL-CRACKING; PALEOZOIC OIL;

BIODEGRADATION; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HIGH TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; PYROLYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

CRACK INITIATION;

CRACKING; OIL; PALEOZOIC;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; TARIM BASIN; XINJIANG UYGUR;

EID: 33845221011     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2006.07.010     Document Type: Article

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