INVESTIGATION ON TRACE ELEMENTS IN CRUDE OILS AND ORGANIC MATERIALS EXTRACTED FROM OIL- FORMING SOURCE ROCKS IN CHINA WITH INAA

Chai Chifang，

Ding Zhuguo，

Fu Jiamo，

Sheng Guoying

Nuclear Science and Techniques

Vol.2, No.2

pp.85-90

Published in print 01 May 1991

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A combination of Soxhlet extraction, column chromatography and INAA with GC and GC- MS was used in this work for the study of the abundance patterns of 36 trace elements and their correlation in nearly 100 samples of crude oil and organic materials extracted from oil- forming source rocks from 10 main Chinese oilfields. The low V/Ni ratios of 0.01 to 0.3 state the oil- forming continent environment. The geochemical significance hinted from other trace element abundances is also briefly discussed.

Neutron activation analysisCrude oilTrace element pattern

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