Chapter 43: Assessment of NE Greenland: Prototype for development of Circum-ArcticResource Appraisal methodology

Geological Society Memoir

Volumn 35, Issue , 2011, Pages 663-672

  Gautier, Donald L ^a   Stemmerik, Lars ^b   Christiansen, Flemming G ^c   Sørensen, Kai ^c   Bidstrup, Torben ^c   Bojesen Koefoed, Jørgen A ^c   Bird, Kenneth J ^a   Charpentier, Ronald R ^d   Houseknecht, David W ^d   Klett, T R ^d   Schenk, Christopher J ^d   Tennyson, Marilyn E ^d  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; HYDROCARBON RESOURCE; NATURAL GAS; OFFSHORE ENGINEERING; OIL PRODUCTION; PETROLEUM HYDROCARBON; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT;

ARCTIC; DENMARK; GREENLAND;

EID: 80051930487     PISSN: 04354052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/M35.43     Document Type: Article

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