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Distributions of methylated naphthalenes in crude oils: indicators of maturity, biodegradation and mixing
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In this paper, a set of crude oils, which differ mainly in their level of maturity, were compared with mixtures obtained after heating methylated naphthalenes with clay, leading to the proposal of three new parameters, one for each class of naphthenes.About:
This article is published in Organic Geochemistry.The article was published on 1999-10-01. It has received 276 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Maturity (geology).read more
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Geochemistry of Palaeozoic marine petroleum from the Tarim Basin, NW China: Part 1. Oil family classification
TL;DR: A series of Palaeozoic marine oils ranging from condensates to very heavy oils from the cratonic region of the Tarim Basin, NW China have been examined to delineate oil families as discussed by the authors.
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Assessing the maturity of oil trapped in fluid inclusions using molecular geochemistry data and visually-determined fluorescence colours
TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the thermal maturity of oils extracted from inclusions and the fluorescence colours of oil-bearing fluid inclusions in 36 sandstone samples from Australasian oil fields.
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Separation and identification of petroleum biomarkers by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography
TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC) has been used to separate and identify biomarker molecules in crude oil, which are frequently used in forensic oil spill analysis and petroleum exploration, were separated into easily recognizable bands in the GC×GC chromatogram.
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Practical aspects of chemometrics for oil spill fingerprinting.
TL;DR: This framework is based on methods for initial screening, which include classification of samples into oil type, detection of non matches and of weathering state, and detailed oil spill fingerprinting, in which a more rigorous matching of an oil spill sample to suspected source oils is obtained.
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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon biodegradation rates: a structure-based study.
TL;DR: It is concluded that most of the observed variation in environmental PAH biodegradation rates comes from processes controlling the bioavailability of the compounds and not processes controlling uptake or biotransformation.
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Petroleum Formation and Occurrence
TL;DR: The early transformation of organic matter from organisms to geochemical fossils and Kerogen has been studied in the literature as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on the migration and accumulation of oil and gas.
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Maturity parameters based on aromatic hydrocarbons: Influence of the organic matter type
TL;DR: In this paper, the concentration of phenanthrene, dibenzothiophene and selected alkylphenanthrene and alkylnaphthalene isomers were detrmined for five samples (Rm values ranging from 0.45 to 2.5%) containing an amorphous kerogen type, where vitrinite and inertinite were the predominant kerogen constituents.
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Geochemical study on a well in the Western Canada Basin: relation of the aromatic distribution pattern to maturity of organic matter
TL;DR: In this article, the Methylphenanthrene Index (MPI) was introduced, which exhibited a very good correlation with vitrinite reflectance data, and is the first maturity parameter which is based on a series of aromatic hydrocarbons.
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Aromatic components of coal: relation of distribution pattern to rank
TL;DR: Aromatic distribution patterns have been evaluated for a series of twenty-four German high volatile bituminous B to low volatile B-to-low volatile Bituminous coals of Upper Carboniferous Westphalian C-, B- and A-ages using high performance liquid chromatography and glass capillary gas chromatography.