Oil source bed hydrocarbon analysis: some methods and interpretations

702001-101182-978-B
Author : S. Thompson
Publication : Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia
Page : 123 – 140
Volume Number : 15
Year : 1982
DOI : https://doi.org/10.7186/bgsm15198210

Bulletin of the Geological Society of Malaysia, Volume 15, December 1982, pp. 123-140

Oil source bed hydrocarbon analysis: some methods and interpretations

S. THOMPSON

Robertson Research (Singapore) Private Limited,

Units 10E-17E, 5th Floor, Block 6, Ayer Rajah Industrial Estate,

55 Ayer Rajah Road, Singapore 0513.

Abstract: A well section, designated “Wildcat-I”, has been evaluated by a suite of geochemical techniques including pyrolysis and gas chromatography. The operating principles of pyrolysis and gas chromatography are briefly discussed, and the basic interpretations that may be obtained from these data are presented. Pyrolysis alone was sufficient to screen out the poor source rocks but insufficient to unequivocally delineate the oil generation interval. However without pyrolysis neither the quantity of oil generation nor its unrealised potential could have been estimated.

https://doi.org/10.7186/bgsm15198210