Oil & Gas Geology ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 581-586.doi: 10.11743/ogg20150407

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Geochemical characteristics of Tumuji oil sands in western Songliao Basin

Li Ningxi1, Huang Haiping1,2, Sun Jingjing1, Liu Mei1, Zhang Haifeng1, Jiang Wenlong1   

  1. 1. School of Energy Resource, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China;
    2. Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada
  • Received:2015-04-15 Revised:2015-05-20 Online:2015-08-08 Published:2015-08-28

Abstract:

Being one of the important unconventional oil resources, oil sand is well worth of geochemical study so as to better guide its resource assessment.Thirteen oil sand samples were collected from Tumuji ranch in western Songliao Basin and analyzed for oil yield, bulk composition and GC-MS.The result shows that the oil yield of oil sand is high, and non-hydrocarbon components dominate the bulk composition.Most compounds in saturated and aromatic hydrocarbon fractions were largely biodegraded.The n-alkanes, isoprenoid alkanes, hopanes and steranes were all degraded in varying degree except for tricyclic terpanes.No 25-norhopane series has been detected in the studied sample suite. The naphthalene and phenanthrene series were all destroyed but the triaromatic steroids are intact.These oils are derived from single source rock system on the basis of biodegradation resistant compound signatures.

Key words: biodegradation, petroleum geochemistry, unconventional oil resource, oil sand, Tumuji, Songliao Basin

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