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Geoscience ›› 2019, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (03): 629-642.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2019.03.15

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Characteristics and Significance of Organic Sulfur Compounds in the Crude Oils from the Dongpu Sag

XU Tianwu1(), LI Sumei2,3(), ZHANG Hongan1, ZHANG Yunxian1, WU Jianxun4, SHI Quan4, CHEN Xiangfei3, JI Hong3, WAN Zhonghua3   

  1. 1. SINOPEC Zhongyuan Oilfield Company,Puyang, Henan 457001, China
    2. State Key Laboratory of Petroleum Resources and Prospecting, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
    3. Geosciences Institute, China University of Petroleum, Beijing 102249, China
  • Received:2018-11-15 Revised:2018-12-20 Online:2019-06-23 Published:2019-06-24
  • Contact: LI Sumei

Abstract:

Heteroatomic compounds in saline lacustrine in the Dongpu Sag are weakly documented. ESI FT-ICR MS combined with GC/MS were utilized to reveal sulfur compounds in the saline and freshwater lacustrine oils in the sag. Abundant sulfur compounds were detected and dominated by S1 and O1S1 class species. It was observed that the saline lacustrine oils are relatively enriched in S1 species while the freshwater lacustrine oils are abundant in O1S1 species, indicating the ratio of O1S1/S1 is indicative of organofacies of source rocks. The saline lacustrine immature oils are composed of mainly sulfur compounds with carbon number to be C27-C35 and C40,which is coincide with the carbon number of steroids, hopanoids and β-carotane, suggesting micro-organisms such as algas and bacterium as well as chromatophore to be important organic matter inputs when source rocks deposited. With increasing maturity, the DBE (double bond equivalent) values increased whereas the carbon number range of alkyl substitued decreased, and several relevant parameters were suggested to be maturity indicative. The saline immature oils are dominated by sulfur compounds with relatively low thermal stability, suggesting degradation of S-containing kerogen and/or sulfurous macromolecule under low temperature is one of the most important genetic mechanisms of immature oils in the area studied.

Key words: Dongpu Sag, saline lacustrine oil, sulfur compounds, high resolution mass

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