Petroleum Habitats is a geochemical research and development firm focused on developing technologies to detect, predict and optimize catalytic-gas and light oil ("Alpha Gas and Light Oil") in unconventional plays. Located in Houston, TX, the firm was founded by Frank D. Mango PhD, an expert in organic chemistry, catalysis and geochemistry, and Dan Jarvie, an internationally recognized expert on shale geochemistry.
Petroleum Habitats offers consulting and laboratory testing of cores and cuttings to predict catalytic hydrocarbon production.
The Catalytic Path provides a new unconventional play in shales and coals...
Catalytic Hydrocarbons are generated in real time by the natural catalytic activity of shale or coal source rocks. Catalytic Alpha Gas has been observed to constitute the major component of produced shale gas. Catalytic Hydrocarbon production is predictable from laboratory testing of a rock's gas and light oil generation capacity, characteristics and dynamics. Catalytic Gas and Light Oil production can be engineered during production to maximize its generation.
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US Patent 7,845,414 B2, De. 7, 2010 "Converting Heavy Hydrocarbon Deposits to Clean Natural Gas and Oil at Low Temperatures" Primary heavy hydrocarbon deposits include tars, organic-rich shales, and coals. In short, any natural rock that would classify as a source rock had it been given sufficient time and temperature in the subsurface to generate oil or gas fits this category.All contain natural catalytic activity because they are primary products of organic sedimentation.Composed of residual biomass, and therefore residual organometallic enzymes, they are enriched in catalytically active transition metals, nickel, cobalt, iron, tungsten, molybdenum, …Each rock has the capacity to convert its heavy hydrocarbons to lighter hydrocarbons catalytically at some critical temperature and hydrocarbon gas pressure.Temperature, gas flow, and pressure stimulate generation.Because the process generates heat, it is self-sustaining at low temperatures.It can occur in the subsurface with stimulation from above or in surface reactors under controlled conditions.It can be accelerated by adding active metals, other active sedimentary rocks, for example, or synthetic compositions.It is new technology exploiting the natural catalytic process for converting heavy hydrocarbons to oil and gas over geologic time.It differs in only one respect.It is artificially stimulated to generate oil and gas in real time.
The paper, "Natural catalytic activity in a marine shale for generating natural gas", establishes a new and unexpected path to natural gas and light oil generation based on the catalytic activity of shale rocks. This Catalytic Path generates gas and oil in real time (vs. geologic time) and at relatively low temperatures.
