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Hartwig, Alexander; di Primio, Rolando; Anka, Zahie; Horsfield, Brian (2012): Geochemistry and kinetic models od Cretaceous samples [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.818278, Supplement to: Hartwig, A et al. (2012): Source rock characteristics and compositional kinetic models of Cretaceous organic rich black shales offshore southwestern Africa. Organic Geochemistry, 51, 17-34, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2012.07.008

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Abstract:
The source rock potential of Cretaceous organic rich whole rock samples from deep sea drilling project (DSDP) wells offshore southwestern Africa was investigated using bulk and quantitative pyrolysis techniques. The sample material was taken from organic rich intervals of Aptian, Albian and Turonian aged core samples from DSDP site 364 offshore Angola, DSDP well 530A north of the Walvis Ridge offshore Namibia, and DSDP well 361 offshore South Africa. The analytical program included TOC, Rock-Eval, pyrolysis GC, bulk kinetics and micro-scale sealed vessel pyrolysis (MSSV) experiments. The results were used to determine differences in the source rock petroleum type organofacies, petroleum composition, gas/oil ratio (GOR) and pressure-volume-temperature (PVT) behavior of hydrocarbons generated from these black shales for petroleum system modeling purposes.
The investigated Aptian and Albian organic rich shales proved to contain excellent quality marine kerogens. The highest source rock potential was identified in sapropelic shales in DSDP well 364, containing very homogeneous Type II and organic sulfur rich Type IIS kerogen. They generate P-N-A low wax oils and low GOR sulfur rich oils, whereas Type III kerogen rich silty sandstones of DSDP well 361 show a potential for gas/condensate generation. Bulk kinetic experiments on these samples indicate that the organic sulfur contents influence kerogen transformation rates, Type IIS kerogen being the least stable. South of the Walvis Ridge, the Turonian contains predominantly a Type III kerogen. North of the Walvis Ridge, the Turonian black shales contain Type II kerogen and have the potential to generate P-N-A low and high wax oils, the latter with a high GOR at high maturity.
Our results provide the first compositional kinetic description of Cretaceous organic rich black shales, and demonstrate the excellent source rock potential, especially of the Aptian-aged source rock, that has been recognized in a number of the South Atlantic offshore basins.
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Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP)
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Median Latitude: -24.566813 * Median Longitude: 12.904633 * South-bound Latitude: -35.066200 * West-bound Longitude: 9.385800 * North-bound Latitude: -11.572000 * East-bound Longitude: 15.448500
Date/Time Start: 1975-01-05T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1980-07-29T00:00:00
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
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  1. Hartwig, A; di Primio, R; Anka, Z et al. (2012): (Table 2) Bulk kinetic parmeters for DSDP Holes 75-530A and 40-361 samples. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.818277
  2. Hartwig, A; di Primio, R; Anka, Z et al. (2012): (Table 1) Organic geochemistry of DSDP Holes 75-530A, 40-364 and 40-361. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.818273