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A New Method for Geochemical Prediction of the Existence of Petroleum Reservoirs in Magmatic and Metamorphic Rocks

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There are many giant oil and gas production fields associated with metamorphic and granitic rocks in the world. All the discovered hydrocarbon accumulations in metamorphic and granitic rocks are located at higher elevations than the sediments around these rocks. The sedimentary cover on those rocks may or may not contain petroleum reservoirs. Historically, oil and gas accumulations in these rocks had been generally discovered 10 to 30 years later after a certain amount of petroleum was produced from the sedimentary rocks overlying them. The hydrocarbon trapping mechanism in the rocks mentioned above is caused by an anticline or a formation structure with variable permeability. Metamorphic and granitic rock reservoirs are special types of oil and gas reservoirs, which have been usually neglected until recently as targets for exploration purposes. Most of these reservoirs have been discovered by chance so far because the metamorphic and granitic rocks are not primary targets in oil and gas exploration. On the other hand, the Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) value provides information on hydrocarbon contamination of water resources and soils. To find the TPH concentrations of the water or soil contaminated by petroleum hydrocarbons, gas chromatography (GC) analysis is carried out. In this analysis methodology, aromatic hydrocarbons are separated and the total amount of petroleum hydrocarbons are determined in the samples taken from the surface, subsurface, distribution waters, and soils. Metamorphic massifs and granitic plutons are among the geological units exhibiting wide outcrops on earth. Therefore, in this study, the TPH in water and soil analysis, which can be considered as a geochemical method to reveal the discovery of hydrocarbon reservoirs in such rock units, is practically examined. It is also concluded that the existence of hydrocarbon reservoirs in such geological formations can be predicted by TPH analysis to be performed on samples taken from massifs and plutons and their surrounding water resources and soils.

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Ozdemir, A., Palabiyik, Y. (2022). A New Method for Geochemical Prediction of the Existence of Petroleum Reservoirs in Magmatic and Metamorphic Rocks. In: Lin, J. (eds) Proceedings of the 2021 International Petroleum and Petrochemical Technology Conference . IPPTC 2021. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9427-1_64

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