The NE Atlantic margin: Implications of late mesozoic and cenozoic events for hydrocarbon prospectivity

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 117-131

  Dore A G ^a   Lundin, E R ^a   Birkeland, O ^a   Eliassen, P E ^a   Jensen, L N ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Continental margin; North Atlantic; Petroleum geology; Reservoir rock; Source rock

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL MARGIN; CONTINENTAL MARGINS; HYDROCARBON POTENTIAL; OIL RESERVOIRS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; RESERVOIR; SOURCE ROCK; SOURCE ROCKS;

ATLANTIC, (NORTHEAST);

EID: 0031436741     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/petgeo.3.2.117     Document Type: Article

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