| Title | Effect of maturity and petroleum expulsion on pyrrolic nitrogen compound yields and distributions in Duvernay Formation petroleum source rocks in central Alberta, Canada |
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| Author | Li, M ; Yao, H;
Stasiuk, L D; Fowler, M G; Larter, S R |
| Source | Organic Geochemistry vol. 26, no. 11-12, 1997 p. 731-744, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0146-6380(97)00053-3 |
| Year | 1997 |
| Alt Series | Geological Survey of Canada, Contribution Series 1997004 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV |
| Document | serial |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | paper; on-line; digital |
| File format | pdf |
| Province | Alberta |
| NTS | 82I; 82J; 83A; 83B; 83G; 83H |
| Area | Edmonton |
| Lat/Long WENS | -115.7500 -112.0000 54.2000 51.5667 |
| Subjects | fossil fuels; geochemistry; source rocks; source rock analyses; petroleum; petroleum provinces; petroleum exploration; petroleum generation; petroleum occurrence; petroleum resources; nitrogen; thermal
maturation |
| Illustrations | location maps; geological sketch maps; schematic diagrams; tables; graphs; geochemical plots |
| Abstract | A quantitative study of pyrrolic nitrogen compounds was conducted on a series of marine carbonate petroleum source rock extracts taken from the Upper Devonian Duvernay Formation in the central Alberta
portion of the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin. With increasing thermal maturity, concentrations of various pyrrolic nitrogen compounds in the rock extracts increase drastically, together with significant compositional variations related to alkyl
substitution position. The study provides circumstantial evidence for adsorptive interactions operating between organic nitrogen compounds and solid organic/mineral phases in subsurface sedimentary rocks during petroleum generation and expulsion. The
absolute concentrations and relative distributions of pyrrolic nitrogen compounds in the extracts of different maturity ranges provide background information for the calibration of such data in migrated petroleums, as an independent measurement of
secondary oil migration range of Duvernaysourced oils in the basin |
| GEOSCAN ID | 208546 |
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