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Eleven crude oils from the Gulf of Suez and Western Desert of Egypt have been used for the geochemical study. They have been analyzed for their metals, nitrogen and sulfur contents. Application of geochemical markers based upon these constituents has shown that crude oils could be correlated or differentiated according to their geologic age. The V/Ni, Ni/S, V/N, Ni/N, and S/N markers were almost uniform in Miocene oils, revealing the same origin, yet showing marked differences in Cretaceous crude oils reflecting varying degrees of their maturity, source materials, depositional environment and migrational history. The significance of analyzing the non-hydrocarbon constituents of the heavy petroleum fractions were extended to protecting the catalyst used in cracking processes. The results showed that trace metals and nitrogen contents are within the permissible limits in gas and diesel oils yet they are much beyond those limits in the heavier fractions.
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Published in Russian in Neftekhimiya, 2017, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 515–519.
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Hegazi, A.H., El-Gayar, M.S. Role of non-hydrocarbon constituents in crude oils correlation and heavy fractions processing studies. Pet. Chem. 57, 838–842 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0965544117100103
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