This study is a detailed kinetic analysis of 15 potential source rocks from around the world. The technique uses a modified MCTP approach developed by scientists at Chevron's research laboratory in La Habra (Tang and Stauffer, 1994). We have taken their approach and added the capability to completely trap and resolve all light hydrocarbon gases including methane using Humble Instruments MACT10 instrument.. The new trap design is sequential permitting the trapping of these very volatile gases while allowing the heavier hydrocarbons to release completely and reproducibly from the traps.
The objective of this study is to report dry and wet gas generation kinetics as well as light and heavy oil generation kinetics from various source rocks. This will permit modelers to accurately model both oil and gas generation where currently available bulk kinetic data (such as recorded in our Source Rock Geochemical Library) only models kerogen decomposition to oil. Default values are then used in basin modeling programs to compute gas generation strictly from oil cracking, a not entirely correct and accurate procedure.
Thus, kinetic data is reported for:
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