Differentiating depositional environments and maturity of crude oils using GC-AED benzothiophenic spectra

Organosulfur compounds of crude oils and light oils (condensates), collected from ten Chinese petroleumbearing basins and representing different sedimentary environments, were analyzed and identified using a newly-developed GC-AED technique. The results show that the distributions of organosulfur co...

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Published in:Science China. Earth sciences 1998-08, Vol.41 (4), p.401-407
Main Authors: Shen, Ping, Wang, Wanchun, Zhang, Xiaobao, Shen, Runmei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abundance
Carbon isotopes
Carbonates
Crude oil
Exchanging
Freshwater
Gases
Geochemistry
Hydrocarbons
Inland water environment
Littoral environments
Natural gas
Oils & fats
Organosulfur compounds
Sedimentary environments
Sedimentary facies
Sedimentation & deposition
Swamps
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Summary:Organosulfur compounds of crude oils and light oils (condensates), collected from ten Chinese petroleumbearing basins and representing different sedimentary environments, were analyzed and identified using a newly-developed GC-AED technique. The results show that the distributions of organosulfur compounds of crude oils from different sedimentary environments are of obvious difference. The crude oils from marine carbonates are rich in organosulfur compounds and those from the source rocks in an ocean-land interchanging facies and a littoral facies have a high abundance of organosulfur compounds, while no or less organosulfur compounds of crude oils from a fresh-water lacustrine facies and a swamp facies were detected in the detectable abundance range of the instrument. This analysis gives a new effective method for oil-source correlation. We also tried to relate the various parameters of benzothiophenic compounds of crude oils with the methane carbon isotope of associated natural gases to discuss the thermoevolutionary degree of crude oils and natural gases.
ISSN:1006-9313
1674-7313
1862-2801
1869-1897
DOI:10.1007/BF02932692