The North Sea chalk: An underexplored and underdeveloped play

Petroleum Geology Conference Proceedings

Volumn 6, Issue 0, 2005, Pages 159-168

  Megson, J ^a,b   Tygesen, T ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Ninian House   (United Kingdom)

^c Drilling Production Technology AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Chalk; Development; Exploration; Non structural traps; North Sea

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052541924     PISSN: 20479921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/0060159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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