Microbial gas system and prospectives of hydrocarbon exploration in Miocene strata of the Polish And Ukrainian Carpathian Foredeep

Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 523-548

  Kotarba, Maciej J ^a   Peryt, Tadeusz M ^b   Koltun, Yuriy V ^c  

^a AGH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b POLISH GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Autochthonous Miocene strata; Bilche Volytsia Unit; Carpathian Foredeep; Hydrocarbon potential; Microbial gas; Organic geochemistry; Prospectives of hydrocarbon exploration; Source rocks; SW Poland; Thermogenic gas; Western Ukraine

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; AUTOCHTHON; BADENIAN; CLAYSTONE; GAS FIELD; GAS WELL; HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; METHANE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MIOCENE; ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY; SOURCE ROCK;

CARPATHIAN FOREDEEP; POLAND; UKRAINE;

EID: 84859601442     PISSN: 02089068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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