
TY  - JOUR
A1  - George, S.C. 
A1  - Ruble, T.E. 
A1  - Dutkiewicz, A. 
T1  - THE USE AND ABUSE OF FLUORESCENCE COLOURS AS MATURITY INDICATORS OF OIL IN INCLUSIONS FROM AUSTRALASIAN PETROLEUM SYSTEMS
JF  - The APPEA Journal
JO  - The APPEA Journal
Y1  - 2001
VL  - 41
IS  - 1
SP  - 505
EP  - 522
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AJ00025 
N2  - It is well established that the fluorescence colours of crude oils shift towards the blue end of the spectrum with increased API gravity and implied thermal maturity. Oil inclusions also fluoresce, and it would be useful to correlate these fluorescence colours likewise to thermal maturity, because oil inclusions often contain the only direct evidence of residual oils once present in a reservoir. In order to validate this concept, the geochemical and petrographic properties of fluid inclusion oils in 36 sandstone samples from Australasian oil fields have been compared. A maturity assessment was made for each fluid inclusion oil using 25 molecular maturity ratios. Each fluid inclusion oil was placed in one of four maturity brackets, approximately equivalent to early, mid, peak and post oil generation windows.Samples containing mainly blue-fluorescing oil inclusions have thermal maturities throughout the oil window, including relatively low maturities (Rc 
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