MRED 426 ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Origin of organic fossil fuels; the carbon cycle; creation and composition of biomass; organic mass in sediments; theories for the origin of petroleum; biogenesis, abiogenesis, transgenesis, katagenesis, metagenesis; maternal petroleum rocks; migration, reservoir creation; bio-indices; methodology of organic geochemistry research. environmental applications.

Laboratory exercises: Grinding, sieving and drying samples of maternal rock of reservoirs; RockEval determination of composition and maturity of organic matter in sediments; Soxhlet extraction; deasphalting and column chromatography; gas phase chromatography - Mass spectroscopy of the saturated fraction to determine bio-indices and maturity.