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ONGOING: Conventional and unconventional oil and gas

Conventional oil and gas

  • Monged, M. N. S., Pötz, S., Noah, M., Wilkes, H., Schulz, H.-M., Bakr, M. M. Y. (2023): Reservoir oil geochemistry in the northern Western Desert of Egypt–High-resolution mass spectrometry and stable carbon isotope characterization. - Organic Geochemistry, 104545. doi.org 10.1016/j.orggeochem.2022.104545.
  • Yang, S., Schulz, H.-M. (2019): Factors controlling the petroleum generation characteristics of Palaeogene source rocks in the Austrian Molasse Basin as revealed by principal component analysis biplots. - Marine and Petroleum Geology, 99, pp. 323-336.
  • Aldahik, A., Schulz, H.-M., Horsfield, B., Wilkes, H., Dominik, W., Nederlof, P. (2017): Crude oil families in the Euphrates Graben (Syria). Marine and Petroleum Geology, 86, pp. 325-342.
  • Yang, S., Schulz, H.-M., Schovsbo, N. H., Bojesen-Koefoed, J. (2017): Oil-source rock correlation of the Lower Palaeozoic petroleum system in the Baltic Basin northern Europe). AAPG Bulletin, 101, 12, pp. 1971-1993.

Unvonventional oil and gas

  • Schulz, H.-M., Yang, S., Schovsbo, N. H., Rybacki, E., Ghanizadeh, A., Bernard, S., Mahlstedt, N., Krüger, M., Amann-Hildebrandt, A., Krooss, B. M., Meier, T., Reinicke, A. (2021): The Furongian to Lower Ordovician Alum Shale Formation in conventional and unconventional petroleum systems in the Baltic Basin – A review. Earth-Science Reviews, 103674.
  • Ji, W., Hao, F., Schulz, H.-M., Song, Y., Tian, J. (2019): The architecture of organic matter and its pores in highly mature gas shales of the lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in the upper Yangtze platform, south China. - AAPG Bulletin.
  • Schulz, H.-M., Linol, B., de Wit, M., Schuck, B., Schaepan, I., Wirth, R. (2018): Early diagenetic signals archived in black shales of the Dwyka and Lower Ecca Groups of the southern Karoo Basin (South Africa): Keys to the deglaciation history of Gondwana during the Early Permian, and its effect on potential shale gas storage. - South African Journal of Geology, 121, 1, pp. 69-94.
  • Schulz, H.-M., Biermann, S., van Berk, W., Krüger, M., Straaten, N., Bechtel, A., Wirth, R., Lüders, V., Schovsbo, N. H., Crabtree, S. (2015): From shale oil to biogenic shale gas: Retracing organic–inorganic interactions in the Alum Shale (Furongian–Lower Ordovician) in southern Sweden. AAPG Bulletin, 99, 5, pp. 927-956.
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