Kompositionelle Veränderungen von Erdöl aufgrund von Expulsion und Migration im Erdölsystem des Zentralgrabens, Nordsee

  • Ziegs, Volker
Publication date
September 2018

Abstract

The Mandal Formation, the principal source rock in the well-explored North Sea Central Graben, has been identified as a locally very inefficient expeller of its generated products, although having charged numerous petroleum accumulations in that basin. This unusual behaviour for marine shales makes the Mandal Formation an interesting natural laboratory to re-assess the factors controlling generated, retained and expelled fluid compositions as a function of maturity and kerogen type, and to unravel processes affecting compositional fractionation during expulsion and migration of different evaporative fractions. Aiming this, bulk chemical methods and compositionally ultra-highly resolving analyses have been applied to source rock samples, the...

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