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245 0 0 _aLower Paleozoic petroleum from southern Scandinavia: Implications to a Paleozoic petroleum system offshore southern Norway
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_cago. 2007
270 _a07/06/2011 ; 07/06/2011
300 _a24 p. ; 1189-1212
520 _aTranscripción del resumen del autor. Petroleum occurring in lower Paleozoic rocks is known to be present in southern Scandinavia, northern Poland, and the Baltic states. Oil has been produced from lower Paleozoic reservoirs in Sweden; northern Poland; and the Baltic countries Lithuania, Latvia, and the Russian exclave area of Kaliningrad. The sources for this petroleum are marine, organic-rich muds deposited in the Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian. This article concerns geochemical analysis of oils extracted from sandstones and carbonates from the Norwegian Oslo Graben rift and locations in Sweden and describes, in addition, insoluble bitumens collected from lower Paleozoic rocks in the Oslo Graben, locations in Sweden, and from upper Paleozoic rocks in a Norwegian North Sea well. The oils in this study have several geochemical characteristics shared with oils from the Baltic states and northern Poland, and the maturities of the oils are, in general, low. The occurrences of bitumen and migrated petroleum in the Oslo Graben lead us to believe that petroleum also has been generated and expelled in the related offshore Skagerrak Graben, indicating that a Paleozoic petroleum system operated in the Skagerrak Graben. This potential petroleum system has not suffered the degree of uplift, erosion, and destruction of reservoirs experienced by the onshore Oslo Graben, making preservation of any petroleum accumulations in the Skagerrak Graben more plausible. Although speculative, these considerations should interest anyone involved in petroleum exploration in the Skagerrak and the Norwegian-Danish Basin, not the least because of the proximity of Skagerrak and major energy markets in Europe.
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100 1 _aPedersen, Jon H.
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100 1 _aKarlsen, Dag A.
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100 1 _aSpjeldnæs, Nils
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