外文资料Organic geochemistry of crude oils and Cretaceous source rocks in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf An oil–oil and oil–source rock.pdfVIP

International Journal of Coal Geology 146 (2015) 118–144 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect International Journal of Coal Geology journal homepage: /locate/ij coa lgeo Organic geochemistry of crude oils and Cretaceous source rocks in the Iranian sector of the Persian Gulf: An oil–oil and oil–source rock correlation study Zahra Sadat Mashhadi, Ahmad Reza Rabbani ⁎ Petroleum Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Hafez Street, Tehran 15875-4413, Iran a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The marls and argillaceous limestones of the Cretaceous Kazhdumi Formation, Ahmadi Member of the Sarvak Received 20 January 2015 Formation and Gurpi Formation are considered to be important source rock candidates in the Persian Gulf. To Received in revised form 5 May 2015 evaluate their source rock characteristics, 265 cutting samples of these rock units from 20 fields in offshore Accepted 7 May 2015 Iran were analyzed using Rock-Eval pyrolysis, organic petrography, stable carbon isotope composition and bio- Available online 15 May 2015 marker analysis. 1D basin modeling was also applied to analyze the burial and thermal history of these source Keywords: rock candidates. Based on the results, the Kazhdumi and Gurpi formations, which have fair source rock potential, Persian Gulf and the Ahmadi Member, which has fair to good source rock characteristics, were deposited in a marine reducing Kazhdumi Formation