Petroleum is known to be an incredibly complex mixture. Petroleum is also very compositionally diverse based on a variety of factors such as geographical location, thermal history, and depositional environment (type of source rock). With recent advances in analytical techniques such as Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) and two dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC), it is now possible to analyze petroleum and petroleum derived materials at the molecular level, which will allow us to gain insights for the compositional dependence of behavior for these complex mixtures. In this study, we analyze three samples with both GC×GC and FT-ICR MS. Sample A and Sample B are condensates (light distillates) from off shore Mozambique. Sample C is from offshore Ghana. This experiment compares the composition of condensates from these two fields (Mozambique) and oil from Ghana using two methods: Two dimensional gas chromatography (GC×GC Time-of-Flight (TOF)) mass spectrometry and Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance (FT-ICR) mass spectrometry. This study compares the data acquired by both analytical methods.

Molecular-level compositional analysis of condensates and crude oils by GC×GC MS and FT-ICR MS

255th National Meeting (2018)

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