An integrated approach to understanding the petroleum system of a frontier deep-water area, offshore Japan

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-233

  Okui, Akihiko ^a   Kaneko, Mitsuyoshi ^b   Nakanishi, Satoshi ^b   Monzawa, Nobuaki ^b   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Idemitsu Oil and Gas Co Ltd   (Japan)

^b Japan Energy Development Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

3D seismic; Basin modelling; Deep water; Fluid inclusion; Gas isotope; Japan; Naoetsu basin; Petroleum system

Indexed keywords

GEOCHEMISTRY; NATURAL GAS WELL DRILLING; OFFSHORE PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; OIL WELL DRILLING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEISMIC PROSPECTING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DATA ACQUISITION; DEEP WATER; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; NEOGENE; PETROLEUM ENGINEERING; SANDSTONE; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC METHOD; SEISMIC SURVEY; SOURCE ROCK; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN; NAOETSU BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEA OF JAPAN;

EID: 52349119613     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079308-765     Document Type: Article

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