Zusammenfassung der Ressource
LECTURE
22
- CHEMISTRY & NATURE
OF PETROLEUM
- Hydrocarbons
- natural gas, crude oil, tar, asphalt (s), bitumen (s)
- ~85% C, ~15% H, small
amount S,O,N,metals
- Isomers
- same no. atoms,
different structure
- Types
- aliphatic
- Impurities
- Sulfur: poisonous
+corrosive
- CO2: dilute HC, greenhouse,
commercial exploitable
- requires refining
processes to separate
different size HC,
remove
contanminations
- saturated/
unsaturated, can
compose of S,N,O
instead of C.
- aromatic
- HC has specialised
ring structures
include both single +
double bonds
- Paraffin (alkane)
- Only contain C +H, single bond, saturated
- eg: methane
- <4C: gas at Rtemp, >4 liquid
- linear/branches
- Naphtenes (cycloalkanes)
- HC contain
1/more ring
structures
- eg: cyclopropane/cyclohexane
- Unsaturated
- double bonds (alkene)
- triple bond (alkyne)
- structure, H:C ratio -> properties
- Crude oil
- complex mixtures of HC
molecules, varying amount
of paraffins, naphthenes,
aromatics, dissolved gas
- Natural gas
- Dry gas
- almost pure
methane
- Wet gas
- contain significant
of ethane +
propane...
- LNG
- liquified natural gas
- Oil formation volume factor
- Volume of oil at reservoir conditions
required to produce 1 barrel of oil at
stock tank condition (rb/stb)
- Gas-oil ratio
- ratio of produced gas to
produced oil (cubic feet
gas/stock tank barrel of oil)
- Energy content of oil and gas
- from decomposing of living materials
- Pour point
- temp at which liquid become semi-solid
- API gravity
- weight of petroleum:water
- PETROLEUM SYSTEM
- provide: unifying concept of
necessary factors, elements
- each component
has to be assess
for risks
- no direct method to locate
petroleum elements
- data from indirect evaluation techniques
- not guarantee hydrocarbons
exist- dry hole
- must balance betw. risk vs. reward
- is a mature source of rock and all its
generated hydrocarbon
accummulation (elements + processes)
- essential processes
- trap formation - generation - migration -
accumulation - preservation