Estimates of temperatures, past and present, in geothermal reservoirs can be made by using now standard mineralogical techniques, including fluid inclusion geothermometry, vitrinite reflectance, calc-silicate and clay occurrence, the extent of clay interlayering, and measuring clay crystallinity. Recent studies of clays in 60 drillcores from 6 wells at Wairakei, for example, show an inverse rel...

To better understand the characteristics of seepage-pores (pore radius larger than 100 nanometers) and their influence on the permeability of coals, we have conducted fractal analyses for 34 fresh coal samples (mean maximum vitrinite reflectance Ro,max from 0.43% to 4.21%) from North, Northwest and Northeast China. Mercury porosimetry data indicate that the coals are fractal, with pore radius r...

The Grajcarek Unit of the Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB), at boundary between Central (Inner) and Outer Carpathians, resulted from convergence ALCAPA (the Alps–Carpathians–Pannonia) block European plate. strongly deformed slices consist Jurassic–Cretaceous sedimentary rocks associated with Late Cretaceous–Middle Palaeocene synorogenic wild-flysch, breccias olistoliths. Maximum burial temperatures d...

This study was conducted to obtain the characteristics of source rock through organic geochemical analysis in Central Deep, NE Java Basin, field off north coast Madura. Three samples Cassiopeia-1, Pollen-1, and Alpha-1 wells were analyzed using methods including Total Organic Carbon analysis, Maturity vitrinite reflectance, Tmax, Production Index data, then kerogen type, isoprenoid, sterane, ca...

Abstract Petrographic, organic, and inorganic geochemical analysis of the solid bitumen host shales from Middle Late Jurassic-age Sargelu Naokelekan Formations Banik section, northernmost Iraq, was undertaken. The aim to understand their derivation preservation, as well examine carbon oxygen isotopes, paleoredox proxies under which sediments were deposited. Petrographic both formations revealed...

The gas generative potential of the Cretaceous Cameo coal in the Piceance Basin, northwestern Colorado, was evaluated quantitatively by sealed gold tube pyrolysis. TheH/C andO/C elemental ratios show that pyrolyzed Cameo coal samples follow the Van Krevelen humic coal evolution pathway, reasonably simulating natural coal maturation. Kinetic parameters (activation energy and frequency factor) fo...

In this letter, a surround suppression variational Retinex enhancement algorithm (SSVR) is proposed for non-uniform illumination images. Instead of a gradient module, a surround suppression mechanism is used to provide spatial information in order to constrain the total variation regularization strength of the illumination and reflectance. The proposed strategy preserves the boundary areas in t...

This paper describes the effects of igneous intrusions on pore structure and adsorption capacity of the Permian coals in the Huaibei Coalfield, China. Twelve coal samples were obtained at different distances from a ~120 m extremely thick sill. Comparisons were made between unaltered and heat-affected coals using geochemical data, pore-fracture characteristics, and adsorption properties. Thermal...