Where did all the coal gas go?

Organic Geochemistry

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 375-387

  Patience, Richard L ^a,b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b CHEVRON ENERGY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC MODELS;

ISOTOPES; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCKS;

COAL GAS;

CARBON ISOTOPE; COAL; GAS; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; SOURCE ROCK;

NORWAY;

EID: 0037234249     PISSN: 01466380     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0146-6380(02)00214-0     Document Type: Article

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