Geochemistry, origin and correlation of crude oils in Lower Cretaceous sedimentary sequences of the southern Mesopotamian Basin, southern Iraq

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 113-126

  Abeed, Qusay ^a   Leythaeuser, Detlev ^b   Littke, Ralf ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

API GRAVITIES; BULK PROPERTIES; BURIAL HISTORY; COMMON SOURCE; HEAVY OIL; HIGH SULFUR CONTENTS; ISOPRENOIDS; LOWER CRETACEOUS; MARINE CARBONATES; MOLECULAR METHODS; N-ALKANES; OIL SAMPLES; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SLOW PASSAGE; SOURCE ROCKS; STERANES;

CRUDE OIL; PARAFFINS;

BIOMARKERS;

BIODEGRADATION; BIOMARKER; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBONATE ROCK; CRETACEOUS; CRUDE OIL; ECONOMIC GEOLOGY; HEAVY OIL; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; KEROGEN; RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION; SEDIMENTARY SEQUENCE; SOURCE ROCK; SULFUR;

IRAQ; MESOPOTAMIAN BASIN;

EID: 84858744870     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.02.007     Document Type: Article

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