Projects
Projects: Projects for Investigator |
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| Reference Number | NER/T/S/2001/01153 | |
| Title | Developing hydropyrolysis to generate molecular biomarker signals for solving key problems in oil exploration where conventional biomarker approaches fail. | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Other oil and gas) 75%; Not Energy Related 25%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry) 25%; ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES (Earth Systems and Environmental Sciences) 75%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor C (Colin ) Snape No email address given Chemical and Environmental Engineering University of Nottingham |
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| Award Type | R&D | |
| Funding Source | NERC | |
| Start Date | 01 October 2002 | |
| End Date | 30 September 2004 | |
| Duration | 24 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £84,029 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Transport Systems and Vehicles | |
| Region | East Midlands | |
| Programme | Ocean Margins (LINK) | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor C (Colin ) Snape , Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Nottingham (99.999%) |
| Other Investigator | Dr G (Gordon ) Love , Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University (0.001%) |
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| Objectives | Objectives not supplied | |
| Abstract | The aim is to realise the potential of hydropyrolysis (pyrolysis assisted by high hydrogen gas pressures) as a means to provide reliable molecular fingerprints for severely biodegraded oils, contaminated cores, oil-field solids (tar mats and pyrobitumens) and to provide novel information on basin filling history where the conventional free biomarker approach fails. This will then facilitate rapidand accurate oil-source and oil-oil correlationsto be determined for the first time in Ocean Margin regions. The study will establish a firm base to exploit the commercial potential of hydropyrolysis, both in terms of oil exploration through the new correlations with bound biomarker profiles and of characterising sedimentary organic matter as a far superior technique to py-GC-MS. Indeed, innovative experimental protocols for conducting hydropyrolysis will continue to be developed to have aproto-type system ready for future exploitation. | |
| Publications | (none) |
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| Final Report | (none) |
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| Added to Database | 05/06/08 | |
