Preliminary observations on hydrocarbon biomarker patterns of the Barney Creek Formation in the well GR-10

Abstract

The present work is aimed to critically re-examine the terpane and carotenoid patterns in the Barney Creek Formation to evaluate down-core trends of redox-sensitive and maturity sensitive biomarker proxies. We stress that these results are very preliminary and presented to justify further sampling of this well down to the point (~300m) where the compounds of interest disappear due to the increased levels of thermal maturation. Should the re-sampling be approved, our next step will be to expand this data set as well as to measure the Cisotopic compositions of amenable molecules.