Enrichment of diamondoids and 13C in condensate from Hudson Canyon, US Atlantic

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 147-151

  Sassen, Roger ^a   Post, Paul ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMONDOIDS; MUDSTONE; PETROLOGIC FABRIC;

CLAY; DIAMONDS; KEROGEN; LIMESTONE; ROCK MECHANICS;

GAS CONDENSATES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CATALYST; CLAY; ENRICHMENT; JURASSIC;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; HUDSON CANYON;

EID: 38649124329     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2007.10.004     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Chen J., Fu J., Liu D., and Sheng G. Diamondoid hydrocarbon ratios: novel maturity indices for highly mature crude oils. Organic Geochemistry 23 (1996) 179-190
2. Chung H.M., Rooney M.A., Toon M.B., and Claypool G.E. Carbon isotopic composition of marine crude oils. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 76 (1992) 1000-1007
3. Claypool G.E., and Mancini E.A. Geochemical relationships of petroleum in Mesozoic reservoirs to carbonate source rocks of Jurassic Smackover Formation, southwestern Alabama. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 73 (1989) 904-924
4. Dahl J.E., Moldowan J.M., Peters K.E., Rooney M.A., Michael G.E., Mello M.R., and Kohnen M.I. Diamondoid hydrocarbons as indicators of natural oil cracking. Nature 399 (1999) 54-57
5. Heydari E., Wade W.J., and Anderson L.C. Depositional environments, organic carbon accumulation, and solar-forcing cyclicity in Smackover Formation lime mudstones, northern Gulf Coast. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 81 (1997) 760-764
6. Jinggui L., Philp P., and Mingzhong C. Methyldiamantane index (MDI) as a maturity parameter for Lower Paleozoic carbonate rocks at high maturity and overmaturity. Organic Geochemistry 31 (2000) 267-272
7. 36) in a deep petroleum reservoir. Fuel 74 (1995) 1512-1521
8. Prather B.E. Petroleum geology of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous, Baltimore Canyon Trough, western North Atlantic Ocean. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 73 (1991) 258-277
9. Pratt, L.M., Burruss, R.C., 1988. Evidence for petroleum generation and migration in the Hartford and Newark basins. In: Froehlich, A.J., Robinson Jr., G.R. (Eds.), Studies of the Early Mesozoic Basins of the Eastern United States. US Geological Survey Bulletin, vol. 1776, pp. 74-79.
10. Rees P.M., Ziegler A.M., and Valdes P.J. Jurassic phytogeography and climates: new data and model comparison. In: Huber B.T., Macleod K.G., and Wing S.L. (Eds). Warm Climates in Earth History (2000), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 297-318
11. Sassen R. Geochemical and carbon isotopic studies of crude oil destruction, bitumen precipitation, and sulfate reduction in the deep Smackover Formation. Organic Geochemistry 12 (1988) 351-361
12. Sassen R. Geochemistry of carbonate source rocks and crude oils in Jurassic salt basins of the Gulf Coast. In: Brooks J. (Ed). Classic Petroleum Provinces vol. 50 (1990), London Geological Society Special Publication 271-284
13. Sassen, R., Post, P., Jung, W., DeFreitas, D.A., McDade, E.C., 2005. Laminated lime mudstone of the Early Oxfordian Smackover Formation of the Northern Gulf Rim: significance to environments of deposition of carbonate source rocks in rifted basins. In: Post, P.J. et al. (Eds.), Petroleum Systems of Divergent Continental Margin Basins, 25th Annual Meeting Gulf Coast Section Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Foundation Bob F. Perkins Research Conference, pp. 832-861.
14. Wei, Z., Moldowan, J.M., Dahl, J., 2005. The catalytic effects of minerals on the formation of diamondoids during kerogen pyrolysis. In: Gonzalez-Vilia, F.J., Gonzalez-Perez, J.A. (Eds.), 22nd International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Seville, Spain, Abstracts, Part I, pp. 260-261.
15. Wei Z., Moldowan J.M., Jarvie D.M., and Hill R. The fate of diamondoids in coals and sedimentary rocks. Geology 34 (2006) 1013-1016
16. Wingert W.S. GC-MS analysis of diamondoid hydrocarbons in Smackover petroleum. Fuel 71 (1992) 37-43