The Fiji Platform developed as an island arc in the Tertiary. Extensional and transpressional tectonics have deformed the fill of extensive sedimentary basins within the Platform. These basins commonly contain over 3 km of stratified deposits. Five deep petroleum-exploration wells were drilled between 1980 and 1982, but all were dry. There remain reasonable prospects, however, because none of t...

Recent advances in interdisciplinary fields as diverse as astrophysics, cosmogeophysics, nuclear geology, etc. have led to interesting developments in the non-organic theory of the genesis of petroleum. This theory, which holds that petroleum is of an abiogenic primordial origin, provides an explanation for certain features of petroleum geology that are hard to explain within the standard organ...

CANADA. J. Parnell, G.R. Osinski, P. Lee, M. Baron, M. J. Pearson and M. Feely, Dept. of Geology & Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K., [email protected]), Dept. of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada, SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, U.S.A., 4 Dept. of Geology, NUI Galway, Rep...

A common task in coal exploration is evaluating reserves by estimating some form of isopach map. Available machine-contouring packages, because of their gridding/contouring sequence, are generally unsatisfactory for this purpose. A different approach considers an isopach map as the difference between two complete digital models of the upper and lower surfaces involved. In addition, whereas a to...

This study combines bathymetric, geomorphological, geological data and oil spill predictions to model the impact of oil spills in two accident scenarios from offshore Crete, Eastern Mediterranean. The aim is to present a new three-step method of use by emergency teams and local authorities in the assessment of shoreline and offshore susceptibility to oil spills. The three-step method comprises:...

Abstract Kuwait has proven conventional oil reserves of about 100 billion barrels which makes it one the major oil-producing countries worldwide. Most this reserve is found in Cretaceous and Jurassic with minor quantities Paleogene sedimentary successions. hydrocarbon production comes from siliciclastic Burgan Formation most important reservoir Kuwait. The Lower exhibit good quality source rock...

STRUCTURE, DEVON ISLAND, CANADA. P. Lindgren, C. Broman, N. G. Holm, J. Parnell, S.A. Bowden, G.R. Osinski, P. Lee, Department of Geology and Geochemistry, Stockholm University, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Geology and Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K., Departments of Earth Sciences and Physics and Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, 1151 Rich...