Dear Maria and others,
Some of the references from my database:
Brand, S. W., H. M. Chung, P. L. Grizzle, I. R. Kaplan, and R. E. Sweeney,
1980, Geochemical characterization of petroleum using carbon, sufur,
hydrogen and nitrogen stable isotopes. Ann. Rept. to Dept. of Energy,
Contract No. EY-77-C-19-0034, 20 p.
Peters, K. E., 1986, Guidelines for evaluating petroleum source rock using
programmed pyrolysis. AAPG Bull., v. 70, p. 318-329.
Sofer, Z., 1980, Preparation of carbon dioxide for stable carbon isotope
analysis of petroleum fractions. Anal. Chem., v. 52, p. 1389-1391.
Hughes, W. B., A. G. Holba, and L. I. P. Dzou, 1995, The ratios of
dibenzothiophene to phenanthrene and pristane to phytane as indicators of
depositional environment and lithology of petroleum source rocks. Geochim.
Cosmochim. Acta, v. 59, p. 3581-35698.
Peters, K. E., 1986, Guidelines for evaluating petroleum source rock using
programmed pyrolysis. AAPG Bull., v. 70, p. 318-329.
Sofer, Z., 1980, Preparation of carbon dioxide for stable carbon isotope
analysis of petroleum fractions. Anal. Chem., v. 52, p. 1389-1391.
Welte, D. H., 1969, Determination of 13C/12C isotope ratios of individual
higher n paraffins from different petroleums. In P. A. Schenk, and I.
Havenaar, eds., Advances in organic geochemistry 1968. London, Pergamon, p.
269-277.
Faber, E., and W. J. Stahl, 1983, Petroleum geochemistry and exploration of
Europe. In J. Brooks, ed., Oxford, Blackwell Sci. Publ., p. 51-63.
Schoell, M., and J. M. Hayes, 1994, Compound-specific isotope analysis in
biogeochemistry and petroleum research. Org. Geochem., v. 21, p. ??
On socalled 'Rock-Eval' type of analysis of petrol (probably mostly used by
petroleum companies; you need specialized equipment for that):
Espitalié, J., G. Deroo, and F. Marquis, 1985, La pyrolyse Rock-Eval et ses
applications. Revue de l'Inst. Franç. Petrole, v. 40, p. 563-579.
Katz, B. J., 1983, Limitations of 'Rock-Eval' pyrolysis for typing organic
matter. Org. Geochem., v. 4, p. 195-199.
Langford, F. F., and M.-M. Blanc-Valleron, 1990, Interpreting Rock-Eval
pyrolysis data using graphs of pyrolizable hydrocarbons vs. total organic
carbon. AAPG Bull., v. 74, p. 799-804.
To my knowledge most of modern analytical work on petrol is done on He-flow
GC-comb-IRMS systems on petrol samples which are 'degassed' (meaning
starting with C8 chains, up to about C26 to C28. Important are the peaks of
C16 (or was it C17?, I have to look this up myself), C18, pristane and
phytane for characterization of petrol. But I am not one of the specialists,
so I suppose others can tell you more about this.
Unfortunately I did not receive (yet) the chapter for my book on this
subject, otherwise I had a better 'review' available to help you with this
matter (maybe the authors of this chapter can help you... I am certain they
will read this too).
I hope this is to some help,
Pier.
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University of the Witwatersrand
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