User talk:Robertopotter

TALK: Amplified Geochemical Imaging Amplified geochemical imaging is an advanced geoscience tool for the surface geochemical imaging of soil gas resulting from microseepage related to subsurface buried petroleum hydrocarbons and minerals whether deposited by natural earth processes or by manmade pollution. Soil gas data are collected by a passive sorbent-based module containing engineered hydrophobic adsorbents encased in a microporous expanded membrane that are specifically designed to collect C2-C20 hydrocarbons. The modules are inserted in the ground to a depth of about half a meter for a period of days to weeks to facilitate capture and equalization of the soil gas.

The analytical method uses thermal desorption (TD) to transfer the compounds on the adsorbent to a gas chromatograph (GC) to be separated into plus 150 volatile compounds from C2-C20 as the application requires and then uses mass spectroscopy (MS) to positively identify and quantify each compound. The sensitive TD/GC/MS method can collect and measure concentrations equivalent to sub 1 nanogram (10E-9 grams) levels and can detect concentration as low as ppt.

The amplified geochemical imaging of the data is based on multivariate statistical tools including principle components analysis (PCA), discriminant analysis (DA) and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA). This identifies the chemical fingerprint of interest and the model factors to generate interpretations. The chemical fingerprint and model differentiates the hydrocarbon compounds naturally found in the soil over uncharged areas from the fingerprint of hydrocarbon compounds found over charged hydrocarbon deposits. Further, the data identification of compounds allows the differentiation between dry gas, wet gas, condensate, and all types of oils.



•	The C-12 model well profile indicates very low levels of hydrocarbon compounds while the M-47 discovery well profile indicates levels of about 100 Ng in the gas phase and about 250 Ng in the liquid phase. •	The weak gas signal strength may be caused by the low BTU gas in the Mount Clarke reservoir. •	The orange/red portion of the transect indicates the gas-condensate signal as defined by M-47 while the blue portion indicates no hydrocarbon signal as define by C-12. Robertopotter (talk) 20:40, 17 March 2013 (UTC)