Two case studies of thermal maturity and thermal modelling within the overpressured Jurassic rocks of the Barrow Sub-basin, North West Shelf of Australia

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 143-159

  He, Sheng ^a   Middleton, Mike ^a   Kaiko, Alex ^a   Jiang, Chunqing ^b   Li, Maowen ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Barrow Sub basin; Maturity; Overpressure; Thermal modelling

Indexed keywords

THERMAL MATURITY;

BIOMARKERS; CONTAMINATION; DRILLING; HYDROCARBONS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

ROCKS;

HYDROCARBON GENERATION; JURASSIC; MODELING; OVERPRESSURE; THERMAL MATURITY;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0036477953     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-8172(02)00006-5     Document Type: Article

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