Oil:Oil Correlation for Some Oil Fields in the North Western Part of the Western Desert, Egypt

Harb, Fatma M.; Nady, Mohamed M. El; Basta, J. S.

doi:10.1081/lft-120023240

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“…The source rock potential and the hydrocarbon generation of the northern Western Desert of Egypt were studied by many authors among them, Parker (1982), Shahin and Shehab (1988), Taher et al, (1988), Zein El-Din et al, (1990), Abdel-Gawad et al, (1996, Abdou (1998), McCain (1998), Abdel-Aziz and Hassan (1998), Khaled (1999), Ghanem et al, (1999), , , Waly et al, (2001), Al-Sharhan andAbdel-Gawad (2002), Shahin and El-Lebbudy (2002), Metwally and Pigott (2002), El-Gayar et al, (2002), Younes (2002), El-Nadi et al, (2003) and Harb et al, (2003).…”

Section: Source Rock Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crude Oil Exploration in the World

Younes¹

2012

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Organic rich rocks with excellent potential to generate mainly oil are present in the Middle Jurassic Khatatba Formation that entered the late mature stage of oil and gas generation window at vitrinite reflectance measurements between 1.0-1.3 Ro% during the Late Cretaceous. Meanwhile, a good to fair source rocks of Alam El-Bueib and Abu Roash-G Member that located within the early to mid and mature stages of oil generation window between vitrinite reflectance measurements 0.5 and 1.0 Ro% at time varying from Late Cretaceous to Late Eocene. AcknowlegementsThe author is grateful to the authorities of the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) for granting the permission to publish this paper. Also, extend my deepest gratitude to Khalda and Agiba petroleum companies for providing the crude oil and core rock samples and the data required to accomplish this work. Deepest thanks to the authorities of both Stratochem and Corex Laboratories.

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Section: Source Rock Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crude Oil Exploration in the World

Younes¹

2012

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“…Correlation studies of crude oils require parameters that discriminate a homologous suit of oils (oils from the same source) from another [1]. This is primarily accomplished using bulk properties such as American petroleum institute (API) gravity, compound class fractions -saturates, aromatics, resins and asphaltenes (SARA) and distribution of aliphatic hydrocarbons (AHCs) from C8 to C40 normal alkanes (nalkanes) including the isoprenoids pristane and phytane [2,3,4]. Additional data from biological marker (biomarker) and alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon analysis are used to support these parameters [5,6,7].…”

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Geochemical Characterization of Two Niger Delta Crude Oils and Their Mixtures I: Bulk Properties and Aliphatic Hydrocarbon Distributions

Onyema¹,

Okoroh²,

Okorie³

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Two crude oils from Rivers and Delta States, Niger Delta Nigeria, samples A and F respectively, and their binary mixtures at different compositions, samples B, C, D, and E, were geochemically characterized using bulk properties and aliphatic hydrocarbon distributions. Results of density and API gravity, which classified samples A, B, C, D as light oils and samples E, F as medium oils, were observed to increase and decrease with increase in the composition of oil sample F respectively. The composition of the saturates, from 68.00 to 71.10%, suggest high maturity of the oil samples which did not show a relationship to the compositional mix of the two Niger Delta crude oils. Bimodal distribution of n-alkanes in samples A and B with a slight prominence of the short chain suggest marine source with significant terrestrial input, while the prominence of the long chain nalkanes in sample F, which suggest a terrestrial source, progressively increased in samples C, D, and E. Pr/Ph ratios from 2.37 to 2.70 suggest source rocks deposited in an oxic environment. Ratios of Pr/nC 17 , from 0.94 to 1.20, and Ph/nC 18 , from 0.39 to 0.53, suggest shale source rocks with terrestrial higher plant input. From these results, the geochemical characteristics of the individual Niger Delta crude oils were exhibited by their binary mixtures. However, density, API gravity, n-alkane distribution, Pr/nC 17 and Ph/nC 18 ratios were expressed relative to the compositional mix of the two Niger Delta crude oils.

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“…The source rock potential and the hydrocarbon generation of the northern Western Desert of Egypt were studied by many authors among them, Parker (1982), Shahin and Shehab (1988), Taher et al, (1988), Zein El-Din et al, (1990, Abdel-Gawad et al, (1996), Abdou (1998), McCain (1998), Abdel-Aziz and Hassan (1998), Khaled (1999), Ghanem et al, (1999), , Wever (2000), Waly et al, (2001), Al-Sharhan and Abdel-Gawad (2002), Shahin and El-Lebbudy (2002), Metwally and Pigott (2002), El-Gayar et al, (2002), Younes (2002), ElNadi et al, (2003) and Harb et al, (2003).…”

Section: Source Rock Evaluationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Many attempts were made to correlate source rock extracts with the biomarker characteristics of crude oils in the Western Desert of Egypt by Taher et al, (1988), Abdel-Gawad et al, (1996), Harb et al, (2003) and Younes (2003).…”

Section: Inferred Oil -Source Correlationmentioning

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“…Distribution of C 27 , C 28 and C 29 steranes illustrating the depositional environments of the studied crude oils and extracts of Shushan oilfields (Huang and Meinschein, 1979). Taher et al, (1998), Zein El-Din et al, (1990, Younes (2002 and2003), El-Nadi et al, (2003), Harb et al, (2003) and El-Gayar (2003) used the geochemical fingerprints of crude oils produced from different basins of the northern Western Desert to assess the genetic relationship between hydrocarbon generation and their source rock depositional environments. Ten crude oil samples from several wells recovered from the different producing zones of the Bahariya and Alam El-Bueib reservoirs (Table 5).…”

Section: Source Rock Extractsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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