AAPG Research Conference
Origin of Petroleum
June 18, 2005, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Search and Discovery Article #90043 (2005)
Posted July 26, 2005
Note: Items preceded by asterisks(*) designate extended abstracts, most with illustrations.
*Two Models of the Middle Devonian Petroleum System in the Volgograd Region:
the Pros and Cons
by Leonid Anissimov and Stanislav Chizhov
The Complementary Roles of Kinetics
and Thermodynamics in the Generation and Preservation of Oil and Gas
by Colin Barker
Origin of High Helium Concentrations
in Dry Gas by Water Fractionation
by Alton A. Brown
Abiogenic Petroleum Generated by
Serpentinization of Oceanic Mantellic Rocks
by J. L. Charlou, J. P. Donval, P. Jean-Baptiste, D. Levaché, Y. Fouquet, J.
P. Foucher, and P. Cochonat
*The Petroleum System Paradigm
and the Biogenic Origin of Oil and Gas
by Wallace G. Dow
Hydrocarbons in Deep Water: A Brief
Review of Some DSDP/ODP/IODP Results
by Martin Hovland, Barry Katz, and George Claypool
*Hydrides and Anhydrides
by C. Warren Hunt
From Source to Reservoir – the
Generation and Migration Process
by Barry J. Katz
*Hydrothermal Hydrocarbons
by Stanley B. Keith and Monte M. Swan
*Juvenile Petroleum
Pathway: From Fluid Inclusions via Tectonic Pathways to Oil Fields
by Alexander A. Kitchka
*Petroleum: To Be Or Not To
Be Abiogenic
by M. R. Mello and J. M. Moldowan
*Isotopic and Chemical
Composition of Natural Gas from the Potato Hills Field, Southeastern Oklahoma:
Evidence for an Abiogenic Origin?
Jeffrey Seewald and Jean Whelan
Trace Element Evidence for Major
Contribution to Commercial Oils by Serpentinizing Mantle Peridotites
by Peter Szatmari, Tereza Cristina Oliveira Da Fonseca, and Norbert Fritz
Miekeley
*Conceptions and
Indicators of the Abiogenic Oil and Gas Origin and Its Significance
by B. M. Valyaev, S. A. Leonov, G. A. Titkov, and M. Yu. Chudetsky