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Crude Petroleum

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Organic Geochemistry

Abstract

The term “crude petroleum” embraces the naturally-occurring, highly complex, mobile organic mixture, usually predominantly hydrocarbons, which constitutes the commercial crude oil, natural gas and natural asphalt of the petroleum industry. This chapter will be almost entirely concerned with liquid crude oil**. Precise definitions of petroleum or crude oil are impossible, as no two oils are exactly alike and hence a continually different compositional problem exists [1]. It is becoming increasingly evident, however, that most crude oils contain the same series of compounds and that the differences between them are a reflection of the relative amounts of the various compounds which are present [2].

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