Seismic characteristics of fluid leakage from an underfilled and overpressured Jurassic fault trap in the Norwegian North Sea

Petroleum Geoscience

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 35-42

  Teige, Gunn M G ^a   Hermanrud, Christian ^a  

^a STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Failure; Leakage; Oil and gas entrapment; Pore pressure; Seismic characteristics

Indexed keywords

EID: 83155191986     PISSN: 13540793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/1354-079302-548     Document Type: Article

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