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The Irati shales of Brazil: a hidden gem?

January 7, 2024

We have prepared a comprehensive literature review to critically assess the factors controlling the distribution and composition of the Early Permian Irati-Whitehill source rock of southern Gondwana as well as the prime drivers leading to petroleum generation and migration. The results have been synthesised into a prognosis of conventional and... More


Sale of Quantum MSSV Pyrolysis rights

December 8, 2023

GEOS4 GmbH and Wildcat Technologies Inc have signed an agreement whereby all rights to the Quantum MSSV-2 Thermal Analysis system, namely its brand name, the injector unit for interfacing with a gas chromatograph, its preparation oven and the supply of running spare parts, are transferred from GEOS4 GmbH to Wildcat Technologies LLC. More


Cutting Edge Science Symposium

November 30, 2023

Brian Horsfield presented an invited talk on natural hydrogen from sedimentary organic matter at the CSIRO R+ Cutting Edge Science Symposium: "Natural hydrogen: A new sustainable geo-source of energy for Australia?" (November 29-30, 2023) in Fremantle, Australia. Kinetics, mass balance, basin modelling and fluid inclusions were addressed. It could be... More


New research by GEOS4 matches predicted physical properties to produced shale oils in the Songliao Basin

September 28, 2023

Six organic-rich shale samples from the Cretaceous Qingshankou Formation, Songliao Basin spanning the maturity range 0.58–1.16% Ro were studied for petroleum generation characteristics using the PhaseKinetics, PhaseSnapshot, and GORFit approaches. Maturation results in relatively heavy fluids with Psat values in the range 40–70 bar when the free... More


Novel Insights from Polar Compounds Geochemistry

September 15, 2023

Nick Mahlstedt, GEOS4´s Senior Technical Officer, talked about "Impact of Expulsion and Production Fractionation on Petroleum Composition: Novel Insights from Polar Compounds Geochemistry" at the 31st International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG), September 2023, Montpellier, France.

High resolution mass spectrometric analysis (FT-ICR MS) in... More