Experimental investigation of thermal decomposition of Bazhenov formation kerogen: Mechanism and application for thermal enhanced oil recovery

Bulk-kinetic parameters (activation energy and frequency factor) were calculated by numerical inversion of pyrolysis data using the Kinetics2015 optimization software. Fixing the A factor to a 2×1014 s−1 and using a spacing of 1 kcal/mole in the discrete activation energy distribution were investigated. In result, solution for different samples along the well was rather stable comparing to traditional approach.