Composition and Properties of Petroleum
Our understanding of the composition and related properties of crude oils has changed significantly over time. Many of the most significant changes have occurred in parallel with developments in analytical techniques. Until the mid-1900s, techniques avail
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R. Paul Philp
Contents 1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 How to Define a Crude Oil? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Characterization of Crude Oils . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 Bulk Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Molecular Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Where Does the Oil Come From? Photosynthesis and How Things Change Over Time . . . 5 Productivity Versus Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 What Are the Major Factors Involved in Determining the Composition of Crude Oils? . . . 7 What Is the Impact of Depositional Environment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 What Is the Impact of Maturity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 How Does the Molecular Composition of an Oil Change During and After Generation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Expulsion and Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Biodegradation and Preservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Abstract
Our understanding of the composition and related properties of crude oils has changed significantly over time. Many of the most significant changes have occurred in parallel with developments in analytical techniques. Until the mid1900s, techniques available for characterizing crude oils were relatively crude by today’s standards and for the most part could only determine bulk properties such as color, optical activity, API gravity, bulk isotope composition, and limited compositional analyses. The development of techniques such as gas chromatography, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in the 1960s and 1970s, and gas R. P. Philp (*) School of Geo
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