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Thermal analysis methods to study the reservoir bitumens

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The bitumen-containing reservoir rocks taken from Devonian terrigenous formation of Romashkino and Bavly oil fields (Russia) were sampled and investigated using thermal analysis methods. It was shown that thermal analysis methods allow to characterize the bitumen-containing rocks in whole, taking into account both soluble and insoluble parts of bitumen and mineral composition of rocks. It was established that the soluble part of reservoir bitumen (bitumen extract) had heavy fractional composition and was enriched with asphaltenes and asphaltene-like particles prone to formation of carbene–carboid compounds (compounds insoluble in the used solvents). When the soluble bitumen was extracted, there was insoluble organic matter on the rock, which, likely, was carbene–carboid compounds dropped out of bitumen system. It was shown that carbene–carboid compounds, in contrast to the asphaltenes, are poor in hydrogen, more carbonized and heat resistant. The assumption was made that the redistribution of the carbene–carboid compounds in the oil reservoir—in the reservoir rock or within bitumen—can indicate the mechanisms of formation of phase-migration series bitumens.

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    Yulia M. Ganeeva, Tatiana N. Yusupova & Ekaterina S. Okhotnikova

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Ganeeva, Y.M., Yusupova, T.N. & Okhotnikova, E.S. Thermal analysis methods to study the reservoir bitumens. J Therm Anal Calorim 139, 273–278 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-019-08410-6

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