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Finding Oil and Shale Gas

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Finding Oil and Shale Gas

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Finding new oil and shale gas deposits is a top priority worldwide, with a recent revival in North America. Using an NIR field spectrometer or spectroradiometer provides a rapid and inexpensive means for determining the mineralogy of samples and identifying petroleum and gas bearing formations. Oil and gas reservoirs seep—when seeps are visible they are called macroseeps-non-visible ones are called microseeps. Hydrocarbon microseeps are important to oil and gas exploration and are usually found at the surface through detection of trace concentration of gasses (ethane or methane), mineral alteration of soils, or changes to spectral response in vegetation.

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