The north-east Baffin Bay region, offshore Greenland - A new frontier petroleum exploration region

Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin

Volumn , Issue 15, 2008, Pages 65-68

  Gregersen, Ulrik ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; SOURCE ROCK;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BAFFIN BAY [ARCTIC OCEAN]; GREENLAND;

EID: 54749093314     PISSN: 16048156     EISSN: 19044666     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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