The history of hydrocarbon filling of Danish chalk fields

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 1331-1345

  VejbaeK O V ^a   Frykman, P ^a   Bech, N ^a   Nielsen, C M ^a,b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^b DANISH ENERGY AGENCY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Back stripping; Chalk; North sea; Secondary migration; Subsurface reservoirs

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052520991     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0061331     Document Type: Conference Paper

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