Petroleum Source Rocks

Over the past two decades there has been increased interest in the availability of hydrocarbon charge through a better understanding of petroleum geochemistry and the identification and characterization of petroleum source rocks. These rocks are geochemically unique and form under specific sets of circumstances. This book brings together both geologic and geochemical data from fifteen petroleum source rocks, ranging in age from Devonian to Eocene, that would otherwise be widely dispersed in the literature or available only in proprietary corporate databases. Much of this information, presented in either a tabular or graphic fashion, provides the petroleum explorationist and the geochemist with a framework to establish relationships among various geochemical indices and depositional settings.

Petroleum Source Rocks an Introductory Overview. - The Exshaw Formation: a Devonian/Mississippian Hydrocarbon Source in the Western Canada Basin. - Geological Controls of Source Rock Geochemistry Through Relative Sea Level; Triassic, Barents Sea. - The Schistes Carton the Lower Toarcian of the Paris Basin. - Geochemistry of the Upper Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain and Hanifa Formation Petroleum Source Rocks of Eastern Saudi Arabia. - The Kimmeridge Clay Formation of the North Sea. - The Egret Member, a Prolific Kimmeridgian Source Rock from Offshore Eastern Canada. - Petroleum Generation in the Nonmarine Qingshankou Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Songliao Basin, China. - Sedimentological and Geochemical Characterization of the Lagoa Feia Formation, Rift Phase of the Campos Basin, Brazil. - The Napo Formation, Oriente Basin, Ecuador: Hydrocarbon Source Potential and Paleoenvironmental Assessment. - The Albian Kazhdumi Formation of the Dezful Embayment, Iran: One of the Most Efficient Petroleum-Generating Systems. - Organic-Rich Chalks and Calcareous Mudstones of the Upper Cretaceous Austin Chalk and Eagleford Formation, South-Central Texas, USA. - Petroleum Geochemical Characterisation of the Lower Congo Coastal Basin Bucomazi Formation. - Source Rock Characterization of the Late Cretaceous Brown Limestone of Egypt. - Brown Shale Formation: Paleogene Lacustrine Source Rocks of Central Sumatra. - The Green River Shale: an Eocene Carbonate Lacustrine Source Rock.