Risk assessment and play fairway analysis in frontier basins: Part 2 - Examples from offshore mid-Norway

American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin

Volumn 89, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 883-896

  Fugelli, Edith M G ^a   Olsen, Tina R ^a  

^a BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; MARINE ENGINEERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PETROLEUM RESERVOIRS; SEISMOLOGY;

DEEP-MARINE SYSTEMS; DEPOSITIONAL MODELS; GEOLOGICAL MODELS; HIGH-RISK CATEGORIES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

DEEP WATER; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; MORE BASIN; NORWEGIAN SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; VORING BASIN; WORLD;

EID: 21844441187     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/02110504030     Document Type: Article

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