Oil and gas plays in Albania: Do equivalent plays exist in Greece?

Journal of Petroleum Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-48

  Zelilidis, A ^a   Piper, D J W ^b   Vakalas, I ^a   Avramidis, P ^a   Getsos, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON REFINING; OIL FIELD DEVELOPMENT; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; ROCKS; STRATIGRAPHY;

BASINS;

PETROLEUM GEOLOGY;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; MATURATION; NEOGENE; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; SOURCE ROCK; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

(WEST); ALBANIA; GREECE;

EID: 0242684542     PISSN: 01416421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-5457.2003.tb00016.x     Document Type: Article

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