Modeling of petroleum generation in the Vietnamese part of the Malay Basin using measured kinetics

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-536

  Petersen, Henrik I ^a   Mathiesen, Anders ^a   Fyhn, Michael B W ^a   Dau, Nguyen T ^b   Bojesen Koefoed, Jørgen A ^a   Nielsen, Lars H ^a   Nytoft, Hans P ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b Vietnam Petroleum Institute   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COAL; DEPOSITS; GASOLINE; KINETICS; OILS AND FATS; PETROLEUM GEOLOGY; PETROLEUM PROSPECTING; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

EXPLORATION TARGETS; GEOCHEMICAL SIGNATURES; GULF OF THAILAND; LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS; MIGRATION PATHWAY; PETROLEUM GENERATION; STRUCTURAL TRAPS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL (2-D) MODELING;

PETROLEUM DEPOSITS;

COAL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GRABEN; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; LACUSTRINE DEPOSIT; LITHOFACIES; MUDSTONE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OLIGOCENE; PETROLEUM; REACTION KINETICS; RIFT ZONE; SANDSTONE; SOURCE ROCK; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

GULF OF THAILAND; MALAY BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA; VIET NAM;

EID: 79955604896     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/09271009171     Document Type: Article

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