Advances in Petroleum Source Rock Characterizations: Integrated Methods and Case Studies

Sedimentary organic matter: origin, productivity, preservation and role in source-rock development.- Practical guide for petroleum source rock interpretation.- Source rock thermal maturity based on oxidation and pyrolysis methods.- Source rocks forward modelling: significance and approach.- Optical kerogen analysis.- Effective source-rock evaluation strategies for the identification of profitable plays in the Permian Basin, USA.- High-resolution palynostratigraphy and palynofacies of the Upper Cretaceous and K/Pg boundary, Sirt Basin, Libya: A case study.- Viability of the upper member of the Mississippian Lodgepole Formation as an economic source rock in the Williston Basin.- Integration of palynological and foraminiferal analyses toward evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential in the Orange Basin, SW Africa.- Palynofacies, organic petrography and hydrocarbon potential of the Toarcian oil shale in the Tibetan Tethys, China.- Organic facies, paleoenvironment, and hydrocarbon source potential of the Cretaceous Mancos and Gallup formations, San Juan Basin, New Mexico.- Petroleum system analysis of the main Paleozoic source rocks in western Iraq: A 1D basin modelling approach.- Source rock quality and continuous petroleum system in the Ranikot Formation (Kirthar Foldbelt, Pakistan) based on principal organic geochemistry.- Egyptian Red Sea unconventional resource potential of the Upper Cretaceous-Paleogene black shales.