Petroleum Systems of Syria - Oil families

Scope
Oil families - To date, hydrocarbon biomarkers have been used to quantify inputs from Cretaceous and Silurian sources, ascertain average maturity and infer source rock depositional environments. We are using certain oxygen-containing (xanthones, aldehydes, fluorenones, benzofluorenones) and nitrogen-containing compounds (carbazoles, benzocarbazoles) occurring in the low polarity NSO fraction to examine these oil families in more detail and provide a more comprehensive insight into the primary and secondary controls of oil composition. 

Participants
 

• B. Horsfield
• H. Wilkes
• R. di Primio
• A. Aldahik

Partners  

• W. Dominik, Technische Universität Berlin
• P. Nederlof, Shell International E&P

FundingThis project is part of major bilateral cooperation between Syria and Germany. The funding of two Ph.D positions comes from Syria. Shell is co-supervising both studies.