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Data used to determine acceptance criteria for the Petroleum Geochemistry Research Laboratory Programmed Pyrolysis Method

Organization: Department of the Interior
Updated: 20210917 | Harvested: July 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM

The data release contains programmed pyrolysis data generated in the Petroleum Geochemistry Research Laboratory that was used to determine the precision and accuracy of daily operating standards...

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Total organic carbon, programmed temperature pyrolysis, vitrinite reflectance, organic carbon isotopes, elemental, and spectral gamma-ray data from the Cretaceous Hue Shale (Jago River outcrop), Arctic Alaska, USA

Organization: Department of the Interior
Updated: 20250114 | Harvested: July 15, 2025 at 06:51 PM

Chemostratigraphic signatures were recorded in a 113 m thick outcrop of late Albian to early Campanian (~103–82 Ma) Hue Shale exposed on the bank of the Jago River in the coastal plain (“1002...

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Portable Raman spectroscopic analysis of bulk crushed rock

Organization: Department of the Interior
Updated: 20230803 | Harvested: July 16, 2025 at 08:12 AM

This study presents a simplified method and empirical relationships for determining organic matter thermal maturity using a portable Raman system equipped with a 785 nm laser, for analysis of...

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Analyzing Heterogeneity in Artificially Matured Samples of Bakken Shales (2018)

Organization: Department of the Interior
Updated: 20200819 | Harvested: July 18, 2025 at 01:44 AM

Solid organic matter (OM) in sedimentary rocks produces petroleum and solid bitumen when it undergoes thermal maturation. The solid OM is a ‘geomacromolecule’, usually representing a mixture of...

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Total organic carbon and pyrolysis analysis data for the U.S. Geological Survey Alcova AR–1–13 core hole, Natrona County, Wyoming (ver. 1.1, October 2021)

Organization: Department of the Interior
Updated: 20211102 | Harvested: July 17, 2025 at 08:14 PM

In 2013 the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) drilled a continuous core in the southeastern part of the Wind River Basin, Wyoming to evaluate the source rock potential of the Lower and lowermost Upper...

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New source rock data for the Mowry and Thermopolis Shales in the Wind River Basin, Wyoming

Organization: Department of the Interior
Updated: 20230424 | Harvested: July 16, 2025 at 08:54 AM

In 2020, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessed the potential for undiscovered, technically recoverable continuous (unconventional) oil and gas resources in the Mowry Shale in the Wind River...

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