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creators_name: Hakimi, M.H.
creators_name: Gharib, A.F.
creators_name: Abidin, N.S.Z.
creators_name: Ahmed, A.
creators_name: Nady, M.M.E.
creators_name: Yahya, M.M.A.
creators_name: Lashin, A.A.
title: Biomarker and Carbon Isotope Composition of the Oil Stains from the North Hadramaut High Area of Eastern Yemen: Implications on the Nature of Organic Matter Input and Their Characteristics
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abstract: Five core sandstone and carbonate rock samples from the Cretaceous Harshiyat Formation containing oil stains were collected from two wells in the North Hadramaut High area (eastern Yemen) and geochemically analyzed by their sterane and terpane biomarker and stable carbon isotope (δ13C) compositions. This paper studied the geochemical characteristics of the oil stains and their relation to probable potential source rocks. The source rock characteristics include the origin of organic matter input; redox depositional conditions, lithology, and degree of thermal maturity were investigated. The saturated and aromatic hydrocarbon fractions of the analyzed oil stain samples have δ13C values in the range of � 26.5� � � 28.6� and � 26.3� � � 26.7�, respectively. These δ13C values indicate that the oil stain samples originated from a mixed organic matter input in their source rock. The presence of mixed marine and terrestrial organic matter in the source rock is further concluded from biomarker distributions of n-alkane, isoprenoid, terpane, and sterane. These biomarkers and their ratio parameters suggest that the analyzed oil stain samples were sourced from clay-rich rock deposited in marine-reducing environmental conditions and likely contained mixed planktonic/bacterial organic matter and land plant inputs. Both saturated and aromatic maturity biomarkers suggest that the analyzed oil stains were from a mature source rock, equivalent to a moderate to peak-mature oil window. The environmental biomarker indicators of the studied oil stain samples correlated well with the shales in the Late Cretaceous Harshiyat Formation in the onshore Jiza-Qamar Basin (eastern Yemen), indicating that the analyzed oil stains were generated from a mature Harshiyat source rock in the onshore Jiza-Qamar Basin and subsequently migrated into the Cretaceous Harshiyat sandstone and limestone reservoirs in the North Hadramaut High area (eastern Yemen) through normal faults system. © 2021, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals.
date: 2022
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
official_url: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85108603245&doi=10.1007%2fs13369-021-05772-8&partnerID=40&md5=e66c0dd6515bd937db1fed330e6c8e75
id_number: 10.1007/s13369-021-05772-8
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publication: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
volume: 47
number: 1
pagerange: 709-723
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2193567X
citation:   Hakimi, M.H. and Gharib, A.F. and Abidin, N.S.Z. and Ahmed, A. and Nady, M.M.E. and Yahya, M.M.A. and Lashin, A.A.  (2022) Biomarker and Carbon Isotope Composition of the Oil Stains from the North Hadramaut High Area of Eastern Yemen: Implications on the Nature of Organic Matter Input and Their Characteristics.  Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 47 (1).  pp. 709-723.  ISSN 2193567X