Isotopic reversals with respect to maturity trends due to mixing of primary and secondary products in source rocks

Chemical Geology

Volumn 339, Issue , 2013, Pages 205-212

  Xia, Xinyu ^a,b,c   Chen, James ^a   Braun, Robert ^a   Tang, Yongchun ^b  

^a GeoIsoChem Corporation   (United States)

^b Power Environmental Energy Research Institute   (United States)

^c HESS CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopic composition; Isotopic reversal; Shale gas

Indexed keywords

APPALACHIAN BASIN; BARNETT SHALE; CARBON ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ENDMEMBERS; GAS RESERVOIR; GEOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; ISOTOPIC REVERSAL; KINETIC ISOTOPE FRACTIONATION; MIXING MECHANISMS; MIXING RATIOS; ORDOS BASIN , CHINA; SECONDARY PRODUCT; SHALE GAS; SIGNIFICANT MECHANISM; SOURCE ROCKS;

CARBON; ETHANE; GASES; METHANE; MIXING; PROPANE; SHALE;

ISOTOPES;

CARBON ISOTOPE; ETHANE; FRACTIONATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS TRANSPORT; METHANE; MIXING RATIO; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK;

FORT WORTH BASIN; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873747561     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2012.07.025     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Brown D. Research getting unconventional boost. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Explorer 2010, 31:8-10.
2. Burruss R.C., Laughrey C.D. Carbon and hydrogen isotopic reversals in deep basin gas: evidence for limits to the stability of hydrocarbons. Organic Geochemistry 2010, 41:1285-1296.
3. Burruss R.C., Ryder R.T. Composition of crude oil and natural gas produced from 14 wells in the Lower Silurian "Clinton" sandstone and Medina Group, northeastern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania. U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 03-409 2003, 64 pp.
4. o relation of coal-formed hydrocarbon gas in China. Chinese Science Bulletin (Kexue Tongbao) 1989, 34:690-692. (in Chinese).
5. 13C values for biogenic gases in China. Organic Geochemistry 2004, 35:405-411.
6. Dai J., Li J., Luo X., Zhang W., Hu G., Ma C., Guo J., Ge G. Stable carbon isotope compositions and source rock geochemistry of the giant gas accumulations in the Ordos Basin, China. Organic Geochemistry 2005, 36:1617-1635.
7. Hill R.J., Jarvie D.M., Zumberge J., Henry M., Pollastro R.M. Oil and gas geochemistry and petroleum systems of the Fort Worth Basin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 2007, 91:445-473.
8. Hu A.P., Li J., Zhang W.J., Li Z.F., Hou L., Liu Q.Y. Geochemical characteristics and origin of gases from the Upper, Lower Paleozoic and the Mesozoic reservoirs in the Ordos Basin, China. Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences 2008, 51(zk1):183-194.
9. Jenden P.D., Drazan D.J. Mixing of thermogenic natural gases in Northern Appalachian Basin. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 1993, 77:980-998.
10. Mullen J., Lowry J.C. Lessons learned developing the Eagle Ford Shale. Society of Petroleum Engineers Paper 138446-MS 2010.
11. Passey Q.R., Bohacs K.M., Esch W.L., Klimentidis R., Sinha S. From oil-prone source rock to gas-producing shale reservoir - geologic and petrophysical characterization of unconventional shale gas reservoirs. Society of Petroleum Engineers Paper 131350-MS 2010.
12. o) in upper Ordovician and Devonian rocks of the Appalachian Basin: a major revision of USGS Map I-917-E using new subsurface collections. U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3006 2008, 30 pp.
13. Rice D.D. Composition and origins of coalbed gas. Hydrocarbons from Coal: AAPG Studies in Geology 1993, 38:159-184. B.E. Law, D.D. Rice (Eds.).
14. Rice D.D., Clayton J.L., Pawlewicz M.J. Characterization of coal-derived hydrocarbons and source-rock potential of coal beds, San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado, U.S.A. International Journal of Coal Geology 1989, 13:597-626.
15. Schoell M. Modeling thermogenic gas generation using carbon isotope ratios of natural gas hydrocarbons. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 1983, 67:2225-2238.
16. Stahl W.J., Carey B.D. Source-rock identification by isotope analyses of natural gases from fields in the Val Verde and Delaware basins, West Texas. Chemical Geology 1975, 16:257-267.
17. Stahl W.J., Wollanke G., Boigk H. Carbon and nitrogen isotope data of Upper Carboniferous and Rotliegend natural gases from North Germany and their relationship to the maturity of the organic source material. Advances in Organic Geochemistry 1977, 539-559. R. Campos, J. Gonji (Eds.).
18. Tang Y., Perry J.K., Jenden P.D., Schoell M. Mathematical modeling of stable carbon isotope ratios in natural gases. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2000, 64:2673-2687.
19. Tian H., Xiao X., Wilkins R.W.T., Gan H., Guo L., Yang L. Genetic origins of marine gases in the Tazhong area of the Tarim Basin, NW China: Implications from the pyrolysis of marine kerogens and crude oil. International Journal of Coal Geology 2010, 82:17-26.
20. Tilley B., McLellan S., Hiebert S., Quartero B., Veilleux B., Muehlenbachs K. Gas isotope reversals in fractured gas reservoirs of the western Canadian Foothills: Mature shale gases in disguise. American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin 2011, 95:1399-1422.
21. Xia X. Hydrocarbon Potential of Carbonates and Source Rock Correlation of the Changqing Gas Field 2000, 1-164 pp., Petroleum Industry Press, Beijing, (in Chinese).
22. Xia X. Rules of petroleum source correlation and their application in the Changqing gas field. Petroleum Exploration and Development 2002, 29:101-105. (in Chinese with English abstract).
23. Xia X., Tang Y. Isotope fractionation of methane during natural gas flow with coupled diffusion and adsorption/desorption. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2012, 77:489-503.
24. Xia X., Zhao L., Zhang W., Li J. Geochemical characteristics and source rock of Ordovician gas reservoir, Changqing Gasfield. Chinese Science Bulletin 1999, 44:1917-1920.
25. Zhang W., Li J. Research on the oil and gas origin in the Ordos Basin. China Petroleum Exploration 2001, 6:28-36. (in Chinese with English abstract).
26. Zhao W., Zhang S., Wang F., Cramer F., Chen J., Sun Y., Zhang B., Zhao M. Gas systems in the Kuche Depression of the Tarim Basin: Source rock distributions, generation kinetics and gas accumulation history. Organic Geochemistry 2005, 36:1583-1601.
27. Zhu G.Y., Zhang S.C., Liang Y.B., Ma Y.S., Dai J.X., Li J., Zhou G.Y. The characteristics of natural gas in Sichuan Basin and its sources. Earth Science Frontiers 2006, 13:234-248. (in Chinese with English abstract).
28. Zumberge J.E., Ferworn K.A., Curtis J.B. Gas character anomalies found in highly productive shale gas wells. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 2009, 73:A1539.
29. Zumberge J., Ferworn K., Brown S. Isotopic reversal ('rollover') in shale gases produced from the Mississippian Barnett and Fayetteville formations. Marine and Petroleum Geology 2012, 31:43-52.