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Awards

AAPG (American Association of Petroleum Geologists) Award of Excellence "Top 10" Oral Presentation
Awarded for Mango and Jarvie presentation of "Catalytic Gas in Deltaic Basins" at the Annual Convention in Long Beach, California in April 2007.


Geochemical Society awarded Dr. Mango’s 1990 publication "Best Paper Award" for the most outstanding publication in organic geochemistry for that year.
"The origin of light hydrocarbons in petroleum: A kinetic test of the steady-state catalytic hypothesis", GCA 54 (1990), 1315-1323
http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/product.biblio.jsp?osti_id=6269467


Presentations

Presentation at 2010 APPG Annual Convention - "Alpha Gas in Production of Unconventional Gas"
Frank D. Mango, PhD
Founder and CEO, Petroleum Habitats
Monday, April 12, 2010
New Orleans

Presentation at "Shale Resource Workshop" at Texas Christian University Energy Institute
Frank D. Mango, PhD
Jan. 14-15, 2009
Organized by Dan Jarvie, President of Worldwide Geochemistry

Low-Temperature Gas from Marine Shales
February 2009 Publication by Mango and Jarvie in Geochemical Transactions
http://www.geochemicaltransactions.com/content/10/1/3
Abstract excerpts: "Thermal cracking of kerogens and bitumens is widely accepted as the major source of natural gas (thermal gas). ... Here we report gas generation under anoxic helium flow at temperatures 300° below thermal cracking temperatures. Gas is generated discontinuously, in distinct aperiodic episodes of near equal intensity. ... Our results indicate two paths to gas, a high-temperature thermal path, and a low-temperature catalytic path proceeding 300° below the thermal path. It redefines the time-temperature dimensions of gas habitats and opens the possibility of gas generation at subsurface temperatures previously thought impossible."


Selected Publications by Dr. Mango

Mango FD, Jarvie DM and Herriman E. (2010) Natural catalytic activity in a marine shale for generating natural gas. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 21:14.

Mango F.D. and Jarvie D.M. (2010) Metathesis in the generation of low-temperature gas in marine shales. Geochemical Transactions, 11:1.

Mango F.D. and Jarvie D.M. (2009) Low-temperature gas from marine shales: wet gas to dry gas over experimental time. Geochemical Transactions, 10:10.

Mango F.D., Jarvie D. and Herriman E. (2009) Natural gas at thermodynamic equilibrium Implications for the origin of natural gas. Geochemical Transactions, 10:6.

Mango F. D., and Jarvie D. (2009) Low-temperature gas from marine shales. Geochemical Transactions, 10:3.

Mango F. D., Jarvie D., and Garcia, S. (2008) Low temperature gas generation in marine shales. April, 2008, San Antonio, TX, Abstract 407444.

Mango F. D., Jarvie D. (2007) Catalytic gas in deltaic basins. AAPG Conference, April, 2007, Long Beach, CA, Abstract 109548.

Mango F. D., and Jarvie D.(2006) Catalytic gas in marine shales. AAPG International Conference, Nov., 2006, Perth, Australia, Abstract 106733.

Mango F. D. (2001) Methane concentrations in natural gas: the genetic implications. Organic Geochemistry 32, 1283-1287.

Mango, F. D., (2000) The origin of light hydrocarbons. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 64, 1265-1277.

Mango F. D., and Hightower (1997) The catalytic decomposition of petroleum into natural gas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 24, 5347-5350.

Mango F. D. (1996) Transition metal catalysis in the generation of natural gas. Organic Geochemistry 24, 977-984.

Mango F. D., Hightower, J. W., and James, A. T. (1994) Role of transition-metal catalysis in the formation of natural gas. Nature, 368, 536-538.

Mango F. D. (1992) Transition metal catalysis in the generation of petroleum and natural gas. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta. 56, 553-555.

Mango F. D. (1991) The stability of hydrocarbons under the time-temperature conditions of petroleum genesis. Nature 352, 146-148.

Mango F. D. (1987) An invariance in the isoheptanes of petroleum. Science 237, 514-517.




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