Exhumation of the Corrib Gas Field, Slyne Basin, offshore Ireland

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 239-256

  Corcoran, Dermot V ^a   Mecklenburgh, R ^b  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

^b Shell Exploration and Production Ireland Ltd   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Corrib Gas Field; Exhumation; Ireland; Slyne Basin

Indexed keywords

GAS FIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; SLYNE BASIN; WORLD;

EID: 23444451468     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079304-637     Document Type: Article

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