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Thirty years of applied hydrocarbons research in the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources

Ed.: Alfred Hollerbach; Helmut Raschka

1997. 157 pages, 17x24cm, 400 g
Language: English

(Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe D, Band D 103)

ISBN 978-3-510-96089-7, paperback, price: 19.90 €

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The history of hydrocarbon exploration and associated research extends back to the predecessor institutions of the BGR. However, significant progress has been made in hydrocarbon research in the last thirty years by the BGR staff, as outlined below.
Basic developments in isotope geochemistry have provided valuable tools for hydrocarbon exploration (Stahl, Faber and Berner). Exploration of the structural geology of northern Europe from England to Poland has reached a stage allowing all important events during basin formation and hydrocarbon genesis to be outlined (Kockel, Krull and Hoffmann).
Extensive research in organic geochemistry (Wehner) and petrography (Koch) on hydrocarbons and their source rocks has provided important new data on the maturation and the generation of petroleum and natural gas in the North German basin.

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ALFRED HOLLERBACH & HELMUT RASCHKA: Thirty Years of Applied
Hydrocarbons Research in the Federal Institute for Geosciences and
Natural Resources 5
GERHARD H. BACHMANN & NORBERT HOFFMANN: Development of the Rotliegend
Basin in Northern Germany 9
JOACHIM KOCH, FRANZ KOCKEL & PAUL KRULL: Coalification at the Base of the
Zechstein and the pre-Yermian Surface in Northern Germany 33
GEORG EVERLTEN: Hydrous Pyrolysis of High-Maturity Paleozoic Coals and
Black Shales from Central Europe and Adjacent Areas - Thermodynamic
Considerations 43
PETER GERLING, ERDEM IDIZ, GEORG EVERLTEN & EBERHARD SOHNS: New Aspects
on the Origin of Nitrogen in Natural Gas in Northern Germany 65
HERMANN WEHNER: Source and Maturation of Crude Oils in Northern and
Eastern Germany - an Organic Geochemical Approach 85
ECKHARD FABER, ULRICH BERNER, ALFRED HOLLERBACH & PETER GERLING: Isotope
Geochemistry in Surface Exploration for Hydrocarbons 103
ULRICH BERNER & ECKHARD FABER: Carbon Isotope/Maturity Relationships for
Gases from Algal Kerogens and Terrigenous Organic Matter 129
MICHAEL BOCK & KLAUS BOSECKER: Occurrence of Biosurfactant-Producing
Bacteria in Oil Reservoirs, Contaminated Soils, and Surface Waters in
Northern Germany 147