Changing Concepts of Petroleum Source Rocks: Petroleum.

Carbon in petroleum Source Rock is organic origin. The questions from the inorganic proponents are hereby answered to end on the long standing debate on organic versus inorganic origin. This gives us a new dimension on the science of source rocks. Source rock is made up of lipid rich organic matter deposited in mostly marine like environments.The basins where marine like sediments are not available are possibly sourced from meta-sediments.

Swapan is Associate Professor of Petroleum Geology and Petroleum Geochemistry in the Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS with over 28 years of industry experience. A leading scientist of petroleum geology and geochemistry for over 30 years, he has published many articles on the fundamental problems of petroleum geology particularly related to source rock