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Dietrich H. Welte

Dietrich H. Welte

D-Index & Metrics

Earth Science

D-Index
36
Citations
22317
World Ranking
7033
National Ranking
510

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1990 - Member of Academia Europaea

Best Publications

  • Petroleum Formation and Occurrence

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  • Petroleum Formation and Occurrence

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  • Maturity parameters based on aromatic hydrocarbons: Influence of the organic matter type

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  • Geochemical study on a well in the Western Canada Basin: relation of the aromatic distribution pattern to maturity of organic matter

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  • Petroleum Formation and Occurrence: A New Approach to Oil and Gas Exploration

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  • An investigation of the in-reservoir conversion of oil to gas: compositional and kinetic findings from closed-system programmed-temperature pyrolysis

    B. Horsfield;H.J. Schenk;N. Mills;Dietrich H. Welte

  • Organic matter maturation under the influence of a deep intrusive heat source: A natural experiment for quantitation of hydrocarbon generation and expulsion from a petroleum source rock (Toarcian shale, northern Germany)

    J Rullkötter;D Leythaeuser;B Horsfield;R Littke

  • Kinetics of petroleum generation and cracking by programmed-temperature closed-system pyrolysis of Toarcian Shales

    V. Dieckmann;H.J. Schenk;B. Horsfield;D.H. Welte

  • Relation Between Petroleum and Source Rock

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  • Accumulation of organic-carbon-rich sediments in the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous Atlantic Ocean — A synthesis☆

    Rüdiger Stein;Jürgen Rullkötter;Dietrich H. Welte

  • Removal of soluble organic matter from rock samples with a flow-through extraction cell

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  • A new evaluation of palaeo-heat flows and eroded thicknesses for the Carboniferous Ruhr basin, western Germany

    R. Littke;C. Büker;A. Lückge;R.F. Sachsenhofer;R.F. Sachsenhofer

  • Petroleum and basin evolution : insights from petroleum geochemistry, geology and basin modeling

    D. H. Welte;B. Horsfield;Donald R. Baker

  • Influence of maturity on distributions of benzo- and dibenzothiophenes in Tithonian source rocks and crude oils, Sonda de Campeche, Mexico

    D. Santamarı́a-Orozco;B. Horsfield;R. di Primio;D.H. Welte

  • Class separation of aromatic compounds in rock extracts and fossil fuels by liquid chromatography

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  • �ber die Bevorzugung geradzahliger n-Alkane in Sedimentgesteinen

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  • Organic geochemistry of crude oils from the Vienna Basin and an assessment of their origin

    D.H. Welte;H. Kratochvil;J. Rullkötter;H. Ladwein

  • Distribution of long chain n-parafflns and n-fatty acids in sediments from the Persian Gulf

    Dietrich H. Welte;Götz Ebhardt

  • Gas Generation and Accumulation in the West Siberian Basin

    R. Littke;B. Cramer;P. Gerling;N. V. Lopatin

  • Basin modelling—A new comprehensive method in petroleum geology

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