Abstract
There is a wide variety of natural gas occurrences whose composition and modes of formation may be rather different. However, in this chapter only natural petroleum gas will be considered. While methane (CH4) is always a major constituent of the gas, other components may be present:
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hydrocarbons heavier than methane (mostly ethane C2H6, propane C3H8, butane C4H10),
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carbon dioxide CO2; hydrogen sulfide H2S,
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nitrogen, hydrogen, argon, helium,
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condensate (liquid hydrocarbons dissolved in the gas: they are separated when the gas reaches surface or shallow subsurface positions).
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Tissot, B.P., Welte, D.H. (1984). Formation of Gas. In: Petroleum Formation and Occurrence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87813-8_11
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