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Kinetics of Petroleum Formation and Cracking

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Petroleum and Basin Evolution

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One of the most fundamental problems in basin modeling as related to petroleum exploration is assessing the temporal and spatial limits of petroleum generation in sedimentary basins. It is well known that petroleum is generated from macromolecular sedimentary organic matter as it thermally degrades upon burial. The multitude of chemical reactions involved are unknown in detail (Philippi 1965; Welte 1965) but are recognized to be quasi-irreversible Suck and Karweil 1955; Hanbaba and Jüntgen 1969; Tissot 1969). The organic components of subsiding sedimentary rocks are generally far away from thermodynamic equilibrium (Dayhoff et al. 1967; Tackach et al.1987). Consequently, the formation of oil and gas in nature is controlled by chemical reaction kinetics, in particular by non-isothermal kinetics because temperature changes as a function of time under geological conditions (Tissot and Espitalié 1975).

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Schenk, H.J., Horsfield, B., Krooss, B., Schaefer, R.G., Schwochau, K. (1997). Kinetics of Petroleum Formation and Cracking. In: Welte, D.H., Horsfield, B., Baker, D.R. (eds) Petroleum and Basin Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60423-2_5

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