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A series of short Technical Notes from IGI

The second in a series of Technical Notes is now available on our website. The second one presents evidence of Permian-sourced oil in the Norwegian Barents Sea, and follows the first note on Waxy oils from lacustrine source rocks.

Permian-sourced oil in the Norwegian Barents Sea

IGI’s Barents Sea Geochemical Database contains geochemical data compiled from all relevant reports available on the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate’s website (now updated to the end of 2015), and has been used as the basis for a comprehensive regional geochemical interpretation report (IGI Ltd. , 2015).

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Waxy oils from lacustrine source rocks

Many lacustrine-sourced oils of different ages and from different parts of the world are observed to be waxy, containing high proportions of long-chain n-alkanes, typically showing a slight predominance of odd carbon number chain lengths (Fig. 1).