Evidence for overpressure generation by kerogen-to-gas maturation in the northern Malay Basin

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 639-672

  Tingay, Mark R P ^a   Morley, Chris K ^b   Laird, Andrew ^c   Limpornpipat, Orapan ^d   Krisadasima, Kanjana ^b   Pabchanda, Suwit ^b   Macintyre, Hamish R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b PTTEP   (Thailand)

^c Exchange Tower   (Thailand)

^d Univentures Public Company Limited   (Thailand)

^e SHELL GLOBAL SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL B V   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPANSION; GAS GENERATORS; GASES; PORE PRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT;

DENSITY RESPONSE; EXCESS PORE PRESSURE; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAGNITUDE ANALYSIS; PORE FLUID PRESSURE; PORE PRESSURE PREDICTION; PRIMARY MIGRATION;

DENSITY OF GASES;

FRACTURE FLOW; KEROGEN; MATURATION; OVERPRESSURE; PORE PRESSURE; POROSITY; STRESS ANALYSIS;

MALAY BASIN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84876377302     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/09041212032     Document Type: Article

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