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Recent decades have witnessed an increasing number of studies investigating petroleum systems with the application of rhenium-osmium (Re-Os) isotopic geochemistry. Here, we review the use of the 187Re-187Os geochronometer with respect to the geochemical behaviour of rhenium and osmium in hydrocarbon-related geological processes. The Re-Os budget in hydrocarbon source rock predominantly originates from natural water columns during its deposition. Open seawater tends to have a homogeneous Os isotopic composition because its residence time in seawater is longer than the time taken for ocean mixing. On the contrary, restricted water bodies (e.g., lakes) may have heterogeneous Os isotopic compositions due to the greater amount of terrigenous input. Hydrogenous Re and Os atoms are sequestered from the water body into sedimentary organic matter and transferred into crude oil through thermal maturation of organic matter. Thermal maturation likely does not significantly alter the Re-Os isotopic systematics of the source rock as a Re-Os isochron age of 442±21 Ma (2σ) is yielded in this study for over matured source rocks within the Silurian Longmaxi Formation from the Sichuan Basin. Re-Os atoms are mainly hosted by the highly polar/aggregating/aromatic asphaltenes in hydrocarbons, possibly chelating with organic complexes or occurring as metalloporphyrins. Resin and aromatic hydrocarbons also contribute to the Re-Os budget, but are 2 to 3 orders of magnitude lower than that of asphaltenes, whereas saturates do not contain appreciable Re-Os contents. The distribution of Re-Os atoms in hydrocarbons is heterogeneous because the duplicate analysis of pure single bitumen samples yields similar 187Os/188Os ratios whereas variable 187Re/188Os ratios. The Re-Os system in crude oils can be reset during transport away from the source rocks, with Os-rich organic fractions more readily expelled than Re-rich fractions. Contact with metal-rich fluids (e.g., hydrothermal fluid) or compositional changes related to asphaltene contents (e.g., deasphalting, biodegradation, thermal cracking and thermochemical sulphate reduction) are also likely to alter the Re-Os systematics in hydrocarbons. These geochemical features enable the 187Re-187Os isotopic system to have robust applicability for petroleum system investigations, which may use the Re-Os radiometric tool for: (1) stratigraphic correlation of source rocks, (2) dating geological events altering the asphaltene content in hydrocarbon such as hydrocarbon generation, thermochemical sulphate reduction, etc., and, (3) fingerprinting hydrocarbons. Regardless of the robustness of the 187Re-187Os geochronometer for petroleum system investigations, there are several pending questions such as partitioning between solid organic species or between organic matter and sulphide, chelating sites in hydrocarbons and Os isotopic equilibration between hydrocarbon subfractions. To improve the understanding of the Re-Os behaviour in petroleum systems, we underscore multi-proxies-based geochemistry (e.g., inorganic-organic geochemistry) and experimental studies (e.g., hydrous pyrolysis).
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This study was supported by the Research Start-up Project for Introduced Talent of Yunnan University (No. 20190043), the CNPC Key Laboratory of Carbonate Reservoirs Innovation Fund (No. RIPED-2020-JS-51020). Drs. Chencheng He and Nüjia Peng were thanked for their assistance during sampling. Meanwhile, we would like to express special thanks to editor for handling the manuscript and three anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-020-1066-7.
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Li, SJ., Wang, XC., Wilde, S.A. et al. Revisiting Rhenium-Osmium Isotopic Investigations of Petroleum Systems: From Geochemical Behaviours to Geological Interpretations. J. Earth Sci. 32, 1226–1249 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12583-020-1066-7
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