Petroleum biodegradation in the Tertiary reservoirs of the North Sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 55-64

  Ahsan, Asif ^a   Karlsen, Dag A ^a   Patience, Richard L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

North Sea; Petroleum biodegradation; Tertiary reservoirs; Unresolved complex mixture

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BIODEGRADATION; CARBON; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPOSITION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HYDROGEN; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

AROMATIC HYDROCARBON FRACTIONS; NORTH SEA; PETROLEUM BIODEGRADATION; SATURATED HYDROCARBON FRACTIONS; TERTIARY RESERVOIRS; UNRESOLVED COMPLEX MIXTURE;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

BIODEGRADATION; HYDROCARBON; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROLEUM; TERTIARY; TERTIARY RESERVOIRS;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0031079310     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(96)00046-3     Document Type: Article

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