Onshore equivalents of the main Kudu gas reservoir in Namibia

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 153, Issue , 1999, Pages 345-365

  Stanistreet, I G ^a   Stollhofen, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033378184     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1999.153.01.21     Document Type: Article

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