Second order reactions as a prelude to gas generation at high maturity

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1125-1129

  Mahlstedt, Nicolaj ^a   Horsfield, Brian ^a   Dieckmann, Volker ^a,b  

^a GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam   (Germany)

^b SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(I ,J) CONDITIONS; ARTIFICIAL MATURATION; CLOSED SYSTEMS; DEEP BASIN; DRY GASES; ELSEVIER (CO); GAS GENERATION; GAS PRECURSORS; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATIONS; KINETIC MODELLING; MICRO SCALES; MIXED SAMPLES; NON ISOTHERMAL; NORTH SEA (NS); PARENT MATERIALS; PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS; RECOMBINATION REACTIONS; RESIDUAL ORGANIC MATTER; ROCK-EVAL; S OURCE ROCKS; SECOND ORDER REACTIONS; SECOND ORDERS; SEDIMENTARY ENVIRONMENTS; SYNTHETIC MIXTURES; TRANSFORMATION RATIO;

ADDITION REACTIONS; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; EARTH SCIENCES; FOSSIL FUELS; GAS GENERATORS; GASES; GEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; KINETICS; OPEN SYSTEMS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; PHENOLS; PYROLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; ROCKS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; THEOREM PROVING; THERMOGRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BITUMEN; GAS PRODUCTION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; KEROGEN; MATURATION; MODELING; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PHENOLIC COMPOUND; PYROLYSIS; SOURCE ROCK; TRANSFORMATION;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 48049091372     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2008.04.011     Document Type: Article

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