Source rock potential of selected Cretaceous shales, Orange Basin, South Africa

International Geology Review

Volumn 53, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1508-1521

  Akinlua, Akinsehinwa ^a   Maende, Albert ^b   Adekola, Solomon A ^a   Swakamisa, Olwethu ^a   Fadipe, Oluwaseun A ^a   Akinyemi, Segun A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b Weatherford Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Orange Basin; organic petrography; petroleum potential; Rock Eval pyrolysis; source rock

Indexed keywords

APTIAN; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROGEN; OCEAN BASIN; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; PETROGRAPHY; PYROLYSIS; SHALE; SOURCE ROCK; THERMAL MATURITY; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ORANGE BASIN;

EID: 80053077996     PISSN: 00206814     EISSN: 19382839     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00206811003755370     Document Type: Article

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