Burial history and kinetic modeling for hydrocarbon generation, Part I: The GALO model

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 81, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1660-1678

  Makhous, Monzer ^a   Galushkin, Yurii ^a   Lopatin, Nikolai ^b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BURIAL HISTORY; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; POTENTIAL HYDROCARBON YIELD; SEDIMENTARY BED THICKNESS; SOFTWARE PACKAGE GALO;

PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS;

GALO COMPUTER PROGRAM; HYDROCARBON; MATURATION; SEDIMENTARY BASIN;

EID: 0031251834     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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