Details of Award
NERC Reference : NER/C/S/2000/00577
Destruction of petroleum by water, minerals or microbes at the base of the biosphere: which dominates?
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor AC Aplin, Newcastle University, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Grant held at:
- Newcastle University, Civil Engineering and Geosciences
- Science Area:
- None
- Overall Classification:
- Earth
- ENRIs:
- None
- Science Topics:
- None
- Abstract:
- We will use novel SPME approaches coupled with GCIRMS to produce the first isotopic inventory of putative microbial and chemical redox reactions involving aromatic and aliphatic hydrocarbons, carboxylic acids and phenols in oils and oilfield waters. The data will differentiate chemical equilibrium (interconversion) amongst the compounds from the three kinetically driven mechanisms by which dissolved carboxylic acids and alkyl phenols might form: microbial oxidation, chemical oxidation and kerogen maturation/oil-water partition. The broader importance of the results is that they will give new clues to the relative importance of biological and non-biological processes as agents of chemical change at the extreme base of the biosphere.
- NERC Reference:
- NER/C/S/2000/00577
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- ROPA Pre FEC
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- ROPA
This grant award has a total value of £128,670
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| Total - T&S | Total - Staff | Total - Other Costs | Total - Equipment | Total - Indirect Costs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| £3,307 | £59,881 | £36,435 | £1,500 | £27,546 |
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