Naumenko-Dèzes, Maria; Kloppmann, Wolfram; Blessing, Michaela; Bondu, Raphaël; Gaucher, Eric C.; Mayer, Bernhard (2022). Natural gas of radiolytic origin: An overlooked component of shale gas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - PNAS, 119(15), e2114720119. National Academy of Sciences NAS 10.1073/pnas.2114720119
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SignificanceNatural gas is a key fossil fuel as the world transitions away from coal toward less polluting energy sources in an attempt to minimize the impact of global climate change. Historically, the origin of natural gas produced from conventional reservoirs has been determined based on gas compositional data and stable isotope fingerprints of methane, ethane, and higher n-alkanes, revealing three dominant sources of natural gas: microbial, thermogenic, and abiotic. In our detailed synthesis of published natural gas data from a variety of unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs worldwide, we demonstrate that there is a previously overlooked source of natural gas that is generated by radiolysis of organic matter in shales.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geological Sciences 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geological Sciences > Rock-Water Interaction 08 Faculty of Science > Institute of Geological Sciences > Applied Rock-Water-Interaction |
UniBE Contributor: |
Dèzes, Mariia Oleksiivna, Gaucher, Eric Claude Marie |
Subjects: |
500 Science > 550 Earth sciences & geology |
ISSN: |
0027-8424 |
Publisher: |
National Academy of Sciences NAS |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Pubmed Import |
Date Deposited: |
05 Apr 2022 09:25 |
Last Modified: |
02 Mar 2023 23:36 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1073/pnas.2114720119 |
PubMed ID: |
35377812 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: |
carbon isotopes hydrocarbons natural gas radiolysis shale |
BORIS DOI: |
10.48350/168998 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/168998 |
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