Petroleum inclusions and residual oils: constraints for deciphering petroleum migration

The analysis of petroleum inclusions (PI) in parallel to residual oils (=bitumens) provided specific constraints for petroleum migration processes in the Prague Basin. Whereas organic geochemical information from bitumens is limited due to alteration, additional high quality information was obtained...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inJournal of geochemical exploration Vol. 71; no. 3; pp. 307 - 311
Main Authors Volk, H, Mann, U, Burde, O, Horsfield, B, Suchý, V
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 01.12.2000
Subjects
bitumens
fractionation
hydrocarbons
migration
petroleum inclusions
Prague basin
migration
petroleum inclusions
fractionation
bitumens
hydrocarbons
Prague basin
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:The analysis of petroleum inclusions (PI) in parallel to residual oils (=bitumens) provided specific constraints for petroleum migration processes in the Prague Basin. Whereas organic geochemical information from bitumens is limited due to alteration, additional high quality information was obtained from C 1–14-range compounds inside crystals. This was obtained by the application of a closed system for the decrepitation and thermal extraction of PI with subsequent gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS). The resulting data not only show pristine live oils, gases, residual and precipitated bitumens and a broad variation of mixtures of the groups above, but also show that gas migration and fractionation processes played a major role in the Prague Basin.
ISSN:0375-6742
1879-1689
DOI:10.1016/S0375-6742(00)00156-4