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Geochemical Transactions BioMed Central Research article Open Access Natural gas at thermodynamic equilibrium Implications for the origin of natural gas 1 2 1 Frank D Mango* , Daniel Jarvie and Eleanor Herriman Address: 1Petroleum Habitats, 806 Soboda Ct., Houston, Texas 77079, USA and 2Worldwide Geochemistry, 218 Higgins Street, Humble, Texas 77338, USA Email: Frank D Mango* - dinacat.mango@; Daniel Jarvie - danjarvie@; Eleanor Herriman - eleanorherriman@ * Corresponding author Published: 16 June 2009 Received: 24 February 2009 Accepted: 16 June 2009 Geochemical Transactions 2009, 10:6 doi:10.1186/1467-4866-10-6 This article is available from: /content/10/1/6 © 2009 Mango et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract It is broadly accepted that so-called thermal gas is the product of thermal cracking, primary thermal gas from kerogen cracking, and secondary thermal gas from oil cracking. Since thermal cracking of hydrocarbons does not generate products at equilibrium and thermal stress should not bring them to equilibrium over geologic time, we would not expect methane, ethane, and propane to be at equilibrium in subsurface deposits. Here we rep