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Name: Mohammad wshyar

Ch.Engineering , 3ed stage

Assignment title : source of methane component of natural gas may be microbial or

thermogenic

A comparison between the microbial & thermogenic

Thermogenic Microbial

1-Thermogenic gases generate from 1-Microbial gas production is a complex

thermocatalytic breakdown (cracking)
of complex organic molecules as they
are cleaved and subsequently saturated
to form the C1–C5
2-Generation of thermogenic gases
occurs over a gradient of maturation.
During early and mature stages,
3-thermogenic petroleum system
models are designed to geological
processes occurring at large scale
and over long period of times.
4-Thermogenic gas has a greater
proportion of higher chain hydrocarbons coalbed reservoirs has been
(ethane, propane, butane, and pentane
relative to methane than microbial gas,) composition of CH 4 and CO 2
process That should be described at the
microscopical scale
2-Microbial gas accumulations form
through multiple stages, initiating with
the breakdown of large
macromolecules into
smaller components that the
methanogens can effectively utilize as
an energy source.
3-Pure microbial gases are
characterized by exceptionally
low concentrations of ethane and
heavier hydrocarbons and isotopically
light methane carbon
4- The presence of microbial gas in
established using the δ 13 C isotopic
And This is an example of mixing and alteration of thermogenic and microbal
gas in oil deposits :

Figure 1
And this is another example of Groundwater methane (microbial , thermogenic )
in relation to oil and gas development and shallow coal seams:

Figure 2
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