Petroleum source rock identification of United Kingdom Atlantic Margin oil fields and the Western Canadian Oil Sands using Platinum, Palladium, Osmium and Rhenium: Implications for global petroleum systems

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 313-314, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-104

  Finlay, Alexander J ^a   Selby, David ^a   Osborne, Mark J ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BP EXPLORATION   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Osmium; Palladium; Petroleum; Platinum; Rhenium; Source rock

Indexed keywords

FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; JURASSIC; OIL SAND DEPOSITS; PETROLEUM SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; PPB LEVELS; SOURCE FINGERPRINTING; SOURCE ROCKS; UNITED KINGDOM;

CRUDE OIL; GEOCHRONOLOGY; OIL FIELDS; OIL SANDS; PALLADIUM; PLATINUM; RHENIUM; ROCKS; SAND;

OSMIUM;

HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; KIMMERIDGIAN; OIL FIELD; OIL PRODUCTION; OIL SAND; OSMIUM; PALLADIUM; PETROLEUM; PLATINUM; RHENIUM; RHENIUM-OSMIUM DATING; SOURCE ROCK;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 82655177752     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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