Source rock habitat and hydrocarbon potential of Oligocene Menilite Formation (Flysch Carpathians, Southeast Poland): an organic geochemical and isotope approach

Köster, Jürgen; Kotarba, Maciej J.; Lafargue, E.; Kosakowski, Paweł

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“…The high petro leum po ten tial of the Menilite beds was shown also by Koltun (1992), Kruge et al (1996), Koltun et al (1998), Köster et al (1998) and Kosakowski et al (2009). More over, pre vi ous organic geo chem i cal stud ies (Kotarba and Koltun, 2006;Kosakowski et al 2009;Kotarba et al, , 2014 re vealed that pe tro leum source rocks oc cur also in the fol low ing lithostratographic-fa cies mem bers: black shales of the Lower Cre ta ceous, Veøovice, Lgota, Gaize, Istebna, Hi ero glyphic and Lower Krosno beds (Fig.…”

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“…The pe tro leum po ten tial of source rocks within the Outer Carpathians, Carpathian Foredeep, and their Pa leo zoic-Me so zoic base ment in Po land was ear lier widely de scribed by Köster et al (1998), Kosakowski et al (2009Kosakowski et al ( , 2012a, Kotarba et al (2007Kotarba et al ( , 2014, Kotarba and Koltun (2006), Wiêc³aw et al (2011Wiêc³aw et al ( , 2012a and Wróbel et al (2016). The lo ca tions of the most im por tant study ar eas mentioned above are shown in Fig ure 2.…”

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“…Wiêc³aw et al (2011) and Kotarba et al (2011) pointed to Up per De vo nian and Mis sis sip pian strata in the Up per Pa leo zoic suc ces sion of the Pol ish Carpathian base ment as hav ing the high est pe tro leum po tential, and Kotarba et al (2003) and Kosakowski et al (2012a) also iden ti fied the Mid dle Ju ras sic clays as rocks with the highest hy dro car bon po ten tial among the Me so zoic cover. The lo cation of pre vi ous geo chem i cal stud ies of source rocks in the Polish Outer Carpathians and the Pa leo zoic-Me so zoic base ment (Köster et al, 1998;Kotarba and Koltun, 2006;Kotarba et al, 2007Kotarba et al, , 2014Kosakowski et al, 2012a, b;Wróbel et al, 2016) is shown on Fig ure 2.…”

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Genetic correlation of source rocks and natural gas in the Polish Outer Carpathians and Paleozoic–Mesozoic basement east of Kraków (southern Poland)

Kotarba

Więcław

Bilkiewicz

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., 2017. Ge netic cor re la tion of source rocks and nat u ral gas in the Pol ish Outer Carpathians and Paleozoic-Mesozoic base ment east of Kraków (south ern Po land). Geo log i cal Quarterly, 61 (4): 795-824, doi: 10.7306/gq.1367 Nat u ral gas-source rock cor re la tions in the Pol ish Outer Carpathians and Paleozoic-Mesozoic base ment in the Kraków-Brzesko-Nowy S¹cz area (south ern Po land) have been es tab lished. In the Dukla and Sub-Silesian units, mixed kerogen Type-II/III or III/II oc curs. The or ganic mat ter is im ma ture or low-ma ture. The Oligocene Menilite beds of the Silesian Unit are rich in TOC and con tain gas-prone Type III kerogen of low ma tu rity. In the Paleozoic-Mesozoic base ment, the TOC con tent and re sid ual hy dro car bon po ten tial vary in the Mid dle and Up per De vo nian strata, Mis sis sip pian car bon ate and clastic fa cies and Mid dle Ju ras sic strata. The Pa leo zoic strata are ca pa ble of thermogenic hy dro car bon gen er a tion, while organic mat ter in the Mid dle Ju ras sic rocks is gen er ally im ma ture. Gas eous hy dro car bons ac cu mu lated both in the Silesian and Dukla units of the Pol ish Outer Carpathians and in the Me so zoic base ment are ge net i cally re lated to thermogenic and mi cro bial pro cesses. The Outer Carpathian nat u ral gas was gen er ated mainly from the Type-II/III kerogen of the Oligocene Menilite beds. The thermogenic gases from the Me so zoic base ment were gen er ated from De vo nian and Mis sis sip pian (carbon ate) Type-II and mixed II/III kerogens and prob a bly from Si lu rian/Or do vi cian Type-II kerogen and Mid dle Ju ras sic Type-III/II kerogen oc cur ring at more than 7 km depth. Mi cro bial meth ane mi grated into the Outer Carpathian flysch suc cession from the Mio cene strata of the Carpathian Foredeep.Key words: Pol ish Outer Carpathians, Pa leo zoic-Mesozoic base ment, source rock po ten tial, nat u ral gas, biomarkers, sta ble car bon, hy dro gen and ni tro gen iso topes.

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Genetic correlation of source rocks and natural gas in the Polish Outer Carpathians and Paleozoic–Mesozoic basement east of Kraków (southern Poland)

Kotarba

Więcław

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“…Re sults of pre vi ous pa pers and new an a lyt i cal data show that or ganic mat ter con tent usu ally ranges from 4 to 8 wt.% TOC, lo cally ex ceed ing 26 wt.% (e.g., Bessereau et al, 1996;Kruge et al, 1996;Köster et al, 1998a;Kotarba et al, 2007;Kosakowski et al, 2009), and the Menilite Shales are con sid ered to be the main source rock for Carpathian oils (ten Ha ven et al, 1993;Bessereau et al, 1996;Kruge et al, 1996;Curtis et al, 2004;Kotarba et al, , 2007. The pe tro leum po ten tial of this for ma tion is high est in the Boryslav-Pokuttya Unit in the Ukrai nian area and in the Skole (Skyba) Unit.…”

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“…They are a unique lithofacial unit of the Carpathian re gion ow ing to the claystone-sil ica char ac ter of the strata (Kotlarczyk and Leoeniak, 1990) and rel a tively high or ganic matter con tent of up to 26% (e.g., Bessereau et al, 1996;Kosakowski et al, 2009). Some re sults of geo chem i cal anal y sis of the Menilite Shales in the Outer Carpathians have al ready been given by sev eral au thors (e.g., Koltun, 1992;ten Ha ven et al, 1993;Kruge et al, 1996;Koltun et al, 1998;Köster et al, 1998a;Kotarba et al, 2007). Nev erthe less, the ki net ics of kerogen trans for ma tion was in ves ti gated only by few (Curtis et al, 2004;Lewan et al, 2006).…”

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1-D modelling of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion from Oligocene Menilite source rocks in the San and Stryi rivers region (Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians)

Kosakowski

2013

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Based on geo chem i cal data of the Oligocene Menilite Shales in the Boryslav-Pokuttya, Skole (Skyba), Silesian (Krosno) and Dukla units in the Carpathians, be tween Krosno and Styi towns, 1D mod el ling of gen er a tion and ex pul sion pro cesses of hy dro car bons has been car ried out. These strata are char ac ter ized by mostly high or ganic mat ter con tent, the to tal or ganic car bon (TOC) con tent reach ing up to 26 wt.%. The high est hy dro car bon po ten tial was re corded in the Boryslav-Pokuttya and Skole units. Or ganic mat ter in the Skole (Skyba) Unit is im ma ture; in turn, in the Boryslav-Pokuttya, Silesian (Krosno) and Dukla units it is ma ture enough for gen er at ing hy dro car bons. Re sults of the mod el ling re veal that dur ing the de po si tion of flysch in all the above men tioned Outer Carpathian units the Menilite source rocks did not reach a level of ther mal ma tu rity high enough to gen er ate hy dro car bons. Con di tions of hy dro car bon gen er a tion were ob tained in the thrust ing stage of the Outer Carpathians. In gen eral, the pro cess of hy dro car bon gen er a tion be gan at depths of less than 2 km in the Pol ish part, and about 4 km in the Ukrai nian part. The kerogen trans for ma tion level reached from 10% to to com plete trans for ma tion as in the Suche Rzeki IG 1 well.The re sults of the mod el ling of hy dro car bon gen er a tion and ex pul sion from the source rocks of all the units re veal that the high est ma tu rity and the high est gen er a tion po ten tial were ob tained by the Menilite Shales in the Silesian and Dukla units.

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Mohan

2012

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Source rock habitat and hydrocarbon potential of Oligocene Menilite Formation (Flysch Carpathians, Southeast Poland): an organic geochemical and isotope approach

Cited by 45 publications

References 19 publications

Genetic correlation of source rocks and natural gas in the Polish Outer Carpathians and Paleozoic–Mesozoic basement east of Kraków (southern Poland)

Genetic correlation of source rocks and natural gas in the Polish Outer Carpathians and Paleozoic–Mesozoic basement east of Kraków (southern Poland)

1-D modelling of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion from Oligocene Menilite source rocks in the San and Stryi rivers region (Polish and Ukrainian Carpathians)

The Contribution of Diatoms to Worldwide Crude Oil Deposits

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