Petroleum
Geochemistry and Exploration in the Afro-Asian Region : Proceedings of the Fifth
International Conference and Exhibition on Petroleum Geochemistry and
Exploration in the Afro-Asian Region/New Delhi 25-27 November 2000/edited by
Anil K. Garg, V. Banerjie, S.N. Swamy and P. Dwivedi. Delhi, B.R. Publishing
Corporation, 612 p., $132. ISBN 81-7018-181-4.
Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Petroleum systems modeling, an important ingredient of risk assessment and production planning/D.H. Welte, M. Hertle and C. Keuser. 2. Risking petroleum systems/Chris Cornford. 3. Modelling hydrocarbon phase and component behaviour in petroleum systems/Bjorn Wygrala, Thomas Hantschel and Dietrich Welte. 4. Effects on coal-kerogen structure induced by low temperature, moist air heat treatments/R.B. Johns and N.F. Dunlop. 5. Some thoughts on whether coals can source oil/Chris Cornford. 6. Active recharging of gas and oil reservoirs in the S.E. Gulf coast by vertical migration from deep sources/Jean K. Whelan. 7. Light hydrocarbon studies on the Ula, Gyda, Haltenbanken and some northern north sea oils/Asif Ahsan, Dag A. Karlsen and Kristin Dale. 8. Influence of migration on physico-chemical properties of oils, condensates and gases/R.C. Fuloria. 9. Niger Delta basin: major gas province with ‘some’ oil?/C.M. Ekweozor, U.O. Ezera, G.U. Agha, C.N. Amaechi, O.A. Lufadeju and O.O. Sonibare. 10. New classification scheme for Niger Delta kerogen based on pyrolysis gas chromatographic data/A. Akinlua, C.M. Ekweozor and S.T. Ubwa. 11. Oleanenes in Niger Delta oils/Chidi Eneogwe, Olusegun Ekundayo and Brooks Patterson. 12. Hydrocarbon migration in the Niger Delta : evidence from natural gas occurrence/O.O. Sonibare and C.M. Ekweozor. 13. Hydrocarbon source rock potential and thermicity in the cretaceous rift basins of Nigeria/Samuel O. Akande. 14. Hydrocarbon potential of the deep sea off Tanzania coastal basins as indicated by geochemistry of source rocks and oils from Songo Songo gas field/Meshack Kagya. 15. Seeps, source rocks, bitumen, condensate and gas from different localities in Tanzania/F. Mpanju. 16. Geochemistry and source determination of Nigerian Beach Tars/E.J. Ukpabio, C. Eneogwe and B. Patterson. 17. Evaluation of the source rock potential of the pre-Santonian marine Sekuliye Shale in the Yola arm of the Upper Benue Trough, Nigeria/I.M. Akaegbobi, O.A. Boboye and J.O. Idowu. 18. Elemental analysis of kerogens from the Niger Delta, Nigeria/J.I. Nwachukwa, E.I. Obiajunwa and I.B. Obioh. 19. Source rock potential of two Loperot shales of Lodwar South sub-basin, Tertiary Rift Valley, Kenya/A. Maende, F.M. Mbatau and P.K. Thuo. 20. Marine oil generation in the Tarim Basin, N.W. China/Liang Digang, Zhang Shuichang, Zhang Baoming and Wang Feiyu. 21. Environmental constraints on hydrocarbon generation from coal measures: a case study of Chinese coal bearing basins/Yongge Sun, Ping’an Peng, Guoying Sheng and Jiamo Fu.
22. The change characteristics of the crude oil components at different reduction degrees/Liu Xiaoyan, Li Yiqiang, Li Jingkun and Feng Zihui. 23. Preliminary study on source rocks in the Eastern Qaidam Basin, China/Liu Luofu. 24. The interaction of hydrocarbon and porous surface in coal/Zhao Changyi, Zhao Wenzhi, Zhang Fushi, Bin Yuejing and Tang Yingwu. 25. Forty years of petroleum geochemistry in India/Kuldeep Chandra, Anil K. Garg and C.S. Mishra. 26. Geology, sedimentation and petroleum systems of Cambay Basin, India/S.C. Sarraf, D.S. Ray, A.D. Kararia and N.K. Lal. 27. Reservoir geochemistry of Jotana field, Cambay Basin, India/Trilok Chand, C.S. Mishra, S. Pahari, A.K. Mittal, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 28. Reservoir geochemistry—a tool for reservoir management : applications in Mehsana Asset Area, North Cambay Basin, India/V. Pratap and M.C. Srivastava. 29. Light hydrocarbons geochemistry of crude oils of Gandhar and Nada oil fields, Broach Block, Cambay Basin, India/H.C. Ghildiyal, S. Bartaria, R.K. Shukla, Ramesh Kumar, M.S.M. Rawat and R.S. Dinesh. 30. Microseep survey identifies areas for prospect generation in Eastern Margin of Broach-Jambusar Block, Cambay Basin, India/V. Banerjie, S.T. Shah, L. John, H.C. Ghildiyal, K.P. Singh, B.K. Sharma, R.S. Dinesh and Kuldeep Chandra. 31. Microseep survey in Rajpipla-Rajpardi Area, Cambay Basin, India/K.P. Singh, S.D. Choubey, S. Sharma, Sonal Shah, Ramesh Kumar and R.S. Dinesh. 32. Origin of gases in coal seams of North Cambay Basin, India/Ashim Ghosh, Tapas Bhattacharya and N.P. Singh. 33. Organic matter variations with transgressive and regressive events: examples from Cenozoic sediments of Cambay Basin, India/K.B. Kohli, A. Banerjee, N. Hasan, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 34. The petroleum plays and timing of hydrocarbon accumulation in Mehsana tectonic sub-block North Cambay Basin, India/M.K. Samanta, Ashim Ghosh and H.L. Kak. 35. Source rock geochemistry of broach depression in southern part of Cambay Basin, India/A.K. Jain, A. Banerjee, N. Kumar, M. Jha, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra.
36. Hydrocarbon generation and expulsion modelling in a part of Ahmedabad-Mehsana Block, Cambay Basin, India/Rashmi Gupta, B.K. Shukla, R.K. Shukla, Ramesh Kumar and R.S. Dinesh. 37. Substitution pattern in perylenes and other polycyclic hydrocarbons of North Cambay Basin and their geochemical significance/Mamta Bisht, R. Sharma, R.S. Bisht, Rajeev Sharma, G.C. Datta, N.J. Thomas and K.N. Misra. 38. Hydrogeochemistry of Gandhar oil field waters, Cambay Basin, India/B.D. Naidu. 39. Variation in ionic concentration in core samples of Upper Assam and South Cambay Basin, India/S.K. Agarwal, V.K. Godara and Dewakar. 40. Mossbauer spectroscopic studies of the chemical state of iron in sub-crops of Cambay Basin, India/V.K. Godara, Dewakar, Amita Tripathi, H.C. Verma and R.P. Tripathi. 41. Study of metals in asphaltene fraction of crude oil and bitumen from source rocks of Cambay Basin, India/Rakesh Sharma, V.K. Vashishta, Bharti and Dewakar. 42. Finger printing to trace and rare earth elements in kerogen samples of North Cambay Basin, India/Dewakar, Bharti Rawat and Rakesh Sharma. 43. Evaluation of source rocks for possible generation of hydrocarbon potential in yet-to-discover areas in Western Offshore, India/V. Subba Rao, Ajai Kumar and K.W. Kamble. 44. Hydrocarbon source systems in relation to crude oil occurrences in Bombay Offshore Basin, India/Anil Pande, S.K. Biswas and B. Bhatia. 45. Source organics and depositional environment in Ratnagiri and Mukta Blocks, Bombay Offshore Basin, India/S.C. Pandey, Anil Pande and B.K. Sharma. 46. Source organics and depositional environment in Tapti-Daman Block, Bombay Offshore Basin, India/R.K. Sapru, S. Mathur and B.K. Sharma. 47. Depositional trend and source rock potential over the continental slope area, deepwaters off Ratnagiri, India/B.S. Dhannawat, A.V.S. Murty, V.S.R. Subrahmanyam and T. Singh. 48. Theoretical estimation of TOC in the recent sediments of west coast of India/M.K. Shukla, A.K. Jain, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 49. Source rock potential in sediments of Shelf Margin Area of Bombay Offshore, analogous to surficial sediments of Arabian Sea, West Coast of India/C.P. Gourshetty and T. Vedachalam. 50. Source rock characterization from wireline logs in Tapti-Daman Area, Bombay Offshore Basin, India/J. Mishra and K. Sasidharan. 51. Formation water salinity in reconstruction of diagenetic history/Dillip K. Panda. 52. Application of sulfate ion determination in injection water break-through in Neelam field, Bombay Offshore, India/J.S. Bhattacharya, A.K. Gupta, Satya Prakash, S.K. Sonkar and S.K.T. Nimje. 53. Genesis and entrapment of hydrocarbons within multi-layered tertiary clastic reservoirs of Geleki field, Upper Assam Basin, India/M.S. Raza Khan, Rakesh Kumar, A.T. Vushim, B.N. Prabhu and B.K. Sharma. 54. Characteristics of crude oils—a key to petroleum exploration in Upper Assam Basin, India/M.N. Pande, G.P. Neog, P. Dwivedi, B.N. Prabhu and B.K. Sharma. 55. Light hydrocarbon geochemistry of oils from Upper Assam Basin, India/N. Mathur, H.C. Das and T.G. Kulkarni. 56. Geochemical characteristics and thermal maturity of oils and oil-source rock correlation in Lakwa-Lakhmani field of Upper Assam Basin, India/B.G. Goswami, K. Pangtey, R.S. Bisht, A.K. Bhatnagar and A.K. Sharma. 57. Oil to source correlation of Upper Assam Basin oils with pre-Tipam sediments as potential source sequences/B.P. Singh, V. Prabhakar, M.N. Upadhyay, Kamal Nain and R.K. Bawa. 58. Source rock distribution and characteristics, and petroleum occurrence in parts of the Upper Assam Basin covering areas between the Arunachal Himalayas and Naga-Patkai hills/G.B. Gilfellon, S. Rath, N. Mathur and H.C. Das. 59. Oil families in Upper Assam Shelf, India/G.C. Datta, M.N. Upadhyay, Mamta Bisht, Rashmi Anand, Vibha Prabhakar and B.P. Singh. 60. Maximizing value in exploration through geomicrobial ranking of prospects—a case study/D.E. Nathaniel, P.K. Goswami, P.K. Hazarika and S.K. Pegu. 61. Stable carbon isotopic correlation of the new oil and gas find in Girujan Clay with existing oils and gases in Lakwa-Lakhmani field of Upper Assam/Kishori Lal, I.P. Pandey, A. Kashyap and A.K. Gupta. 62. Peak shape analysis of rock-eval curves: a case study of Rudrasagar field, Upper Assam Basin, India/S.R. Mangotra, M. Kakoti, P.K. Bhatnagar, B.N. Prabhu and B.K. Sharma. 63. Correlation between maceral composition and kinetic parameters of Barail coals from Upper Assam Basin, India/I.V.S.V. Prasad, A.K. Sinha, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 64. Migration trends in Borholla-Changpang field, Assam Foreland Basin, India/P.K. Tewari, R.K. Singh, R.K. Thakur and Gopal Joshi.
65. Tectono-stratigraphic evolution and petroleum systems of Krishna-Godavari basin, India/R. Husain, R.P. Gupta and N.K. Lal. 66. Geochemistry of oils from Kesanapalli and Offshore Areas of East Godavari sub-basin, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India/K.L. Mehrotra and B. Guha. 67. High Gamma-high resistivity (Raghavapuram) shale sequence—a regional source rock for the pre-Trappean hydrocarbon accumulations in Krishna-Godavari Basin, India/M. Manmohan, M.R.R. Rao, A.V.V.S. Kamaraju and S.S. Yalamarty. 68. Source potential assessment in the island and Amalapuram areas in East-Godavari sub-basin, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India/P. Venkanna, B.V.S. Rao, T.B. Srivastava, K.L. Mehrotra and B. Guha. 69. Palynofacies and organic matter maturation in the cretaceous and tertiary sediments of Krishna-Godavari Basin/S.N. Swamy and P.N. Kapoor. 70. Source rock distribution and geochemistry of hydrocarbons in Mandapeta area of East Godavari sub-basin, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India/B.V.S. Rao, P. Venkanna, T.B. Srivastava, K.L. Mehrotra and B. Guha. 71. Hydrodynamic studies in Mandapeta field of Krishna-Godavari Basin, India/V.K. Vashishta, R.K. Jain and Dewakar. 72. Diagenesis and reservoir quality of deltaic shoreline sandstone reservoirs, Krishna-Godavari Basin, India/Yadagiri Kotha. 73. Reassessment of hydrocarbon potential of Cauvery Basin, India-a quantitative genetic model approach/K.K.V. Ramani, B.D. Naidu and M. Giridhar. 74. Source rock facies in Ramnad sub-basin, Cauvery Basin, India/S.G. Krishna Mohan, S.P. Sharma, J. Baral, S.K. Roy Moulik, Gita Singh, Ashish Ghosh, Tapas Mitra, Bhumija Agarwal and S.P.S. Baghel. 75. Source rock evaluation and detection of migratory hydrocarbons in Tanjore sub-basin, Cauvery Basin, India/N. Hasan, Sanjay Varshney, U. Samanta and A. Banerjee. 76. Three distinctly different source facies and conditions as evidenced by geochemical signatures of oils in southern Nagapattinam sub-basin, Cauvery Basin, India/Mala Janardhanan, S.K. Das, S.C. Maheshwari and D.V. Barapatra. 77. Opening of the East Coast of India vis-à-vis development of cretaceous petroleum systems/R. Husain, T. Mitra, R.P. Gupta, K.B. Trivedi, A. Ghosh and S.P.S. Baghel. 78. Geochemical surface prospecting—a case study of Narimanam area, Cauvery Basin, India/J. Aravamudhan, S.K. Das, D.V. Barapatra and Kuldeep Chandra. 79. Microseepage pattern over a salt dome structure using microbial technique/Nimmi Singh, Manisha A. Jain, Mukesh Kumar, S. Kapoor, K.C. Koshel and Kuldeep Chandra. 80. Reconstruction of thermal history of Cenozoic sedimentary rocks of selected wells in NW Himalayan foothills, India through Apatite Fission Track Analysis/K.D. Bal, Rajinder Prashad and B.R. Chawla. 81. Intermediate sequence (Karnapur Formation?): a likely target for hydrocarbon exploration in Ganga Basin, India/Ravi Misra, S.K. Das, M.S. Panwar and A.K. Das. 82. Isotope event stratigraphy of the proterozoic carbonates of Vindhyan Basin, India: relation to organic carbon productivity/burial and hydrocarbon resource prospects/B. Kumar, S. Das Sharma, B. Sreenivas, M.N. Rao and B.R. Chawla. 83. Geochemical evaluation of coalbed methane potential of Jharia Basin, India/A.K. Katiar, K.B. Kohli, T.S. Rawat, P.S. Pangtey, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 84. Geochemistry of coalbed gases from Jharia coal field, India/S.K. Mittal, K. Agarwal, A.K. Uniyal, A.K. Gupta, N.J. Thomas, K.N. Misra and Kuldeep Chandra. 85. Regional source rock evaluation of Jaisalmer Basin, India/S. Bartaria, R. Gupta, R.K. Shukla, Ramesh Kumar and R.S. Dinesh. 86. Geochemical studies of tertiary and Mesozoic sediments of Kutch Basin, India/B.R. Chawla and A.K. Chopra. 87. A new methodology for rigorous and deterministic estimation of hydrogen indices, organic carbon contents and shale volumes in calculation of hydrocarbons generated/P. Neeraja, S.K. Das, S.C. Maheshwari and D.V. Barapatra. 88. Reconstruction of paleotemperature gradient and timing of hydrocarbon generation in North Eastern parts of India/M. Natarajan and H.C. Dhawan. 89. Carbon isotope characteristics of natural gas in the Sichuan Basin, China/Dai Jinxing, Xia Xinyu, Wei Yanzhao and Tao Shizhen. Author index.