Laboratory

The Organic Geochemistry Laboratory is integrated into the Basin Modelling Department. Activities concentrate on artificial maturation experiments to investigate processes of formation and cracking of petroleum fractions in source rocks and their expulsion. The models developed from the results of these experiments are used to simulate these processes in the geological history. The laboratory also carries out carbon and sulphur analyses, solvent extraction and analyses of liquid hydrocarbons (GC-FID and GC-MSD) and natural gases (GC-FID/TCD).

Contact: Hermann M. Weiss