From rifting to drifting: Effects on the development of deep-water hydrocarbon reservoirs in a passive margin setting, Norwegian Sea

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 319-332

  Lien, Trond ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL DRIFT; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DEEP WATER; DEPOSITION; EOCENE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; PALEOCENE; PASSIVE MARGIN; RESERVOIR ROCK; RIFTING;

ARCTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 33746354944     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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