Compound class oil fingerprinting techniques using comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC)

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1026-1035

  Ventura, G Todd ^a,b   Raghuraman, Bhavani ^c   Nelson, Robert K ^b   Mullins, Oliver C ^c   Reddy, Christopher M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX MIXTURE; COMPREHENSIVE TWO-DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; CONTROL SAMPLES; DRILL HOLE; EQUILIBRIUM CONDITIONS; FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; FLAME IONIZATION DETECTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR COMPOSITIONS; OIL COMPOSITION; OIL SAMPLES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; RETENTION INDEX; SEDIMENTARY HORIZONS; SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS;

GAS OILS; IONIZATION OF GASES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR ENGINEERING; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SMOKE DETECTORS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; FLUID; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; OIL; OIL FIELD; PETROLEUM; RESERVOIR; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77956185903     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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