Turning exploration risk into a carbon storage opportunity in the UK Southern North Sea

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 291-304

  Underhill, John R ^a   Lykakis, Nikos ^a   Shafique, Salman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CGG   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin inversion; Carbon capture and storage; Carbon dioxide; Carbon sequestration; Dawsonite; Exploration risk; Igneous dykes; Leman sandstone formation; Rotliegend group reservoir play fairway; Southern North Sea

Indexed keywords

BASIN INVERSION; CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DAWSONITE; EXPLORATION RISK; IGNEOUS DYKES; LEMAN SANDSTONE FORMATION; ROTLIEGEND GROUP RESERVOIR PLAY FAIRWAY; SOUTHERN NORTH SEA;

CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; METHANE; MODEL STRUCTURES; SANDSTONE; SEISMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CENOZOIC; COMPRESSION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; DEPOCENTER; EVAPORITE; FAULT; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; PERMIAN; SANDSTONE; TIMESCALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH SEA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 70149110074     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-839     Document Type: Article

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