Charging the giant gas fields of the NW Siberia basin

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 7, Issue 0, 2010, Pages 659-668

  Fjellanger, E ^a   Kontorovich, A E ^b   Barboza, S A ^c   Burshtein, L M ^b   Hardy, M J ^d   Livshits, V R ^b  

^a ESSO NORGE AS an ExxonMobil Subsidiary   (Norway)

^b TROFIMUK INSTITUTE OF PETROLEUM GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

^d Exxon Mobil   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basin modelling; Cenomanian; Gas charge; Pokur Formation (Fm.); Source rock; West Siberia

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052532619     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0070659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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