Aqueous Solubility of Petroleum as Applied to Its Origin and Primary Migration

Price, Leigh C.

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“…In the Anadarko Basin, variation in toluene abundance has been observed with a uniquely decreasing trend moving away from the basin depocenter toward the shallower shelf area. The low molecular weight aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene and toluene, are the most water-soluble components in crude oils (Price 1976). As oils migrate farther, they contact progressively larger amounts of formation water into which the water-soluble components will partition.…”

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Light hydrocarbon geochemistry: insight into oils/condensates families and inferred source rocks of the Woodford–Mississippian tight oil play in North-Central Oklahoma, USA

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The Woodford-Mississippian "Commingled Production" is a prolific unconventional hydrocarbon play in Oklahoma, USA. The tight reservoirs feature variations in produced fluid chemistry usually explained by different possible source rocks. Such chemical variations are regularly obtained from bulk, molecular, and isotopic characteristics. In this study, we present a new geochemical investigation of gasoline range hydrocarbons, biomarkers, and diamondoids in oils from Mississippian carbonate and Woodford Shale. A set of oil/condensate samples were examined using high-performance gas chromatography and mass spectrometry. The result of the condensates from the Anadarko Basin shows a distinct geochemical fingerprint reflected in light hydrocarbon characterized by heptane star diagrams, convinced by biomarker characteristics and diamantane isomeric distributions. Two possible source rocks were identified, the Woodford Shale and Mississippian mudrocks, with a variable degree of mixing. Thermal maturity based on light hydrocarbon parameters indicates that condensates from the Anadarko Basin are of the highest maturity, followed by "Old" Woodford-sourced oils and central Oklahoma tight oils. These geochemical parameters shed light on petroleum migration within Devonian-Mississippian petroleum systems and mitigate geological risk in exploring and developing petroleum reservoirs.

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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Light hydrocarbon geochemistry: insight into oils/condensates families and inferred source rocks of the Woodford–Mississippian tight oil play in North-Central Oklahoma, USA

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“…Oil and gas accumulations in shallow sedimentary basins (sediment thicknesses equal to or less than 20,000 ft (6.10 km) and accumulations on the stable shelves of deeper sedimentary basins appear to contradict the model of a hot deep origin of petroleum (Price, 1976). However, a review of oil occurrences on stable shelves and in shallow basins shows that their geology does fall within the requirements of the model.…”

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“…It is a crucial assumption here that as long as enough hydrocarbons are present and adequate porosity and permeability are maintained in continuous carrier beds, petroleum will migrate updip and on strike until it is all trapped, lost through seepage, or becomes so heavy and viscous that it can no longer move. Gussow's (1954) principle of differential entrapment of oil and gas, combined with the model of a hot, deep origin (Price, 1976), allows one to describe the hydrocarbon distribution on the shelf area of the basin. As hydrocarbons move updip into a trap (stage 1, Fig.…”

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“…The known hydrocarbon distribution in central Kansas helps demonstrate how this model (Price, 1976) can be used for hydrocarbon exploration on the stable shelf area of a basin. If the hydrocarbons originate in the deep basin and migrate laterally updip for long distances, they will obey Gussow's (1954) principle.…”

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“…The Texas Panhandle (lower left corner Fig. 5) provides another example of the use of this model (Price, 1976) in shelf and shallow-basin exploration.…”

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Hot, deep origin of petroleum: shelf and shallow basin evidence and application

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1978

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Oil and gas pools in shallow basins or on the shallow, stable shelves of deeper sedimentary basins may not be exceptions to the model of a hot deep origin of petroleum. The oil in shallow basins is directly associated with faulting extending out of the deepest parts of the basin. Evidence exists that some of these shallow basins have been much hotter in the past either from igneous activity or from* A higher geothermal gradient. Uplift and erosion may also have removed substantial thicknesses of sediments in some of these basins.Oil on the stable shallow shelves of deep basins may have originated in the deeper part of the basin and undergone long lateral migration to the traps where it is now found. Conduits for such migration have been sandstones in deltadistributary systems (eastern Oklahoma and Kansas), reef trends (Alberta, Canada), or regional porosity and permeability in sheet carbonates (Anadarko basin, western Oklahoma and Kansas). Part of a paper given at the American Association of Petroleum GeologistsAnnual Meeting, Dallas, 1975, and received the Matson Award.

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Hypersaline Fluid Evolution During Burial and Uplift

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2016

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Aqueous Solubility of Petroleum as Applied to Its Origin and Primary Migration

Cited by 58 publications

References 75 publications

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Light hydrocarbon geochemistry: insight into oils/condensates families and inferred source rocks of the Woodford–Mississippian tight oil play in North-Central Oklahoma, USA

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Light hydrocarbon geochemistry: insight into oils/condensates families and inferred source rocks of the Woodford–Mississippian tight oil play in North-Central Oklahoma, USA

Hot, deep origin of petroleum: shelf and shallow basin evidence and application

Hypersaline Fluid Evolution During Burial and Uplift

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