THOUGH commercial Pyrolysis-GC is widely used to evaluate petroleum source rocks, its chromatogram composed of all compounds generated in the whole pyrolysis process cannot provide generating rates or activation energy distributions of individual component or compound groups. To overcome the limitation, a new technique, multi cold trap pyrolysis gas chromatography (MCTP-GC), has been developed by Chevron Petroleum Technology Compa- THOUGH commercial Pyrolysis-GC is widely used to evaluate petroleum source rocks, its chromatogram composed of all compounds generated in the whole pyrolysis process can not provide productive rates or activation energy distributions of individual component or compound groups. To overcome the limitation, a new technique, multi cold trap pyrolysis gas chromatography (MCTP-GC), has been developed by Chevron Petroleum Technology Compa-