Assessing controls on hydrocarbon leakage and seepage

World Oil

Volumn 224, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 49-56

  O'Brien, Geoffrey W ^a   Lawrence, Geoff ^b   Williams, Alan K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b TREICOL Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^c NPA Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEAKAGE (FLUID); PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SEEPAGE; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

OIL SLICKS;

OIL WELL PRODUCTION;

EID: 0242694503     PISSN: 00438790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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