Nitrogen reservoirs dissolved gases

Other atoms that may also be present, sueh as oxygen and nitrogen, will form a variety of complex moleeules with the carbon and hydrogen. Thus it is easy to understand that redueed earbon in the form of CH4, as well as in oxidized form (CO2) and H2O, will be produeed. At suffieient depth, methane will behave chemically as a liquid, and it will dissolve the heavier hydrocarbons that may be present, and therefore greatly reduce the viscosity of the entire fluid. The continuing upward stream would acquire more and more of such unchangeable molecules, and the final product that may be caught in the reservoirs we tap for oil and gas, is the end product of this process. 

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