Palaeozoic source rocks in the Dniepr-Donets Basin, Ukraine

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 377-399

  Sachsenhofer, Reinhard F ^a   Shymanovskyy, Viacheslav A ^b   Bechtel, Achim ^a   Gratzer, Reinhard ^a   Horsfield, Brian ^c   Reischenbacher, Doris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEOBEN   (Austria)

^b Shell Ukraine Exploration and Production   (Ukraine)

^c GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dniepr Donets Basin; Oil and gas potential; Palaeozoic; Source rock; Ukraine

Indexed keywords

DONETS BASIN; OIL AND GAS; PALAEOZOIC; SOURCE ROCKS; UKRAINE;

COAL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS CONDENSATES; GASES; ORGANIC CARBON; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PYROLYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY; SULFUR;

ROCKS;

BLACK SHALE; GAS CONDENSATE; GAS WELL; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROGEN; PALEOZOIC; SOURCE ROCK; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

DNIEPER-DONETS BASIN; UKRAINE;

EID: 78649415173     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079309-032     Document Type: Article

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