"Petroleum Geology: From Mature Basins to New Frontiers" ed by B.A. Vining and S.C. Pickering

These Proceedings embrace many of the world’s petroleum provinces in a two-volume set. There are sections on Europe, which still provides the heart of the Proceedings; Russia, the former Soviet Union and Circum-Arctic; North Africa and the Middle East; Passive Margins; and Unconventional Hydrocarbon Resources.

Contents
The Technical and Editorial Committee
Preface
Global petroleum systems in space and time
The GeoControversies debates
- Abstract
- Debate 1: This house believes “peak oil" is no longer a concern'
- Debate 2: This house believes that National Oil Companies are the future of the petroleum industry'
- Debate 3: This house believes that the North Sea is finished'
- Summary: Julian Rush
- Conclusion
Virtual fieldtrips for petroleum geoscientists
Colin Oakman core workshop
Session: Europe
- Europe overview
- Exploration
- Field Development and Production
- Techniques in Exploration and Exploitation
Session: Russia, Former Soviet Union and the Circum-Arctic
- Russia, FSU and the Circum-Arctic: the final frontier'
- Tectonic history and petroleum geology of the Russian Arctic Shelves: an overview
- Assessment of undiscovered petroleum resources of the north and east margins of the Siberian craton north of the Arctic Circle
- Synchronous exhumation events around the Arctic including examples from Barents Sea and Alaska North Slope
- Offset and curvature of the Novaya Zemlya fold-and-thrust belt, Arctic Russia
- Charging the giant gas fields of the NW Siberia basin
Session: North Africa and Middle East
- Middle East and North Africa: overview
- From Neoproterozoic to Early Cenozoic: exploring the potential of older and deeper hydrocarbon plays across North Africa and the Middle East
- Palaeohighs: their influence on the North African Palaeozoic petroleum systems
- Stratigraphic trapping potential in the Carboniferous of North Africa: developing new play concepts based on integrated outcrop sedimentology and regional sequence stratigraphy (Morocco, Algeria, Libya)
- Integrated petroleum systems and play fairway analysis in a complex Palaeozoic basin: Ghadames-Illizi Basin, North Africa
- Biostratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and thermal maturity of the A1-NCI98 exploration well in the Kufra Basin, SE Libya
- Exploring subtle exploration plays in the Gulf of Suez
- The hydrocarbon prospectivity of the Egyptian North Red Sea basin
- A regional overview of the exploration potential of the Middle East: a case study in the application of play fairway risk mapping techniques
- Appraisal and development of the Taq Taq field, Kurdistan region, Iraq
- Sedimentology, geochemistry and hydrocarbon potential of the Late Cretaceous Shiranish Formation in the Euphrates Graben (Syria)
Session: Passive Margins
- Passive margins: overview
- Constraints on volcanism, igneous intrusion and stretching on the Rockall-Faroe continental margin
- Properties and distribution of lower crustal bodies on the mid-Norwegian margin
- The breakup of the South Atlantic Ocean: formation of failed spreading axes and blocks of thinned continental crust in the Santos Basin, Brazil and its consequences for petroleum system development
- Structural architecture and nature of the continent-ocean transitional domain at the Camamu and Almada Basins (NE Brazil) within a conjugate margin setting
- New compilation of top basement and basement thickness for the Norwegian continental shelf reveals the segmentation of the passive margin system
- Some emerging concepts in salt tectonics in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico: intrusive plumes, canopy-margin thrusts, minibasin triggers and allochthonous fragments
- Source-to-sink systems on passive margins: theory and practice with an example from the Norwegian continental margin
- An integrated study of Permo-Triassic basins along the North Atlantic passive margin: implication for future exploration
- Sedimentology, sandstone provenance and palaeodrainage on the eastern Rockall Basin margin: evidence from the Pb isotopic composition of detrital K-feldspar
- Cretaceous revisited: exploring the syn-rift play of the Faroe-Shetland Basin
- Timing, controls and consequences of compression in the Rockall-Faroe area of the NE Atlantic Margin
- Episodic uplift and exhumation along North Atlantic passive margins: implications for hydrocarbon prospectivity
- New methods of improving seismic data to aid understanding of passive margin evolution: a series of case histories from offshore west of Ireland
- WATS it take to image an oil field subsalt offshore Angola?
- Sub-basalt hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Rockall, Faroe-Shetland and M0re basins, NE Atlantic
- Intra-basalt units and base of the volcanic succession east of the Faroe Islands exemplified by interpretation of offshore 3D seismic data
- Exploring for gas: the future for Angola
Session: Unconventional Hydrocarbons Resources
- Unconventional oil and gas resources and the geological storage of carbon dioxide: overview
- Bulk composition and phase behaviour of petroleum sourced by the Bakken Formation of the Williston Basin
- Shale gas in Europe: a regional overview and current research activities
- UK data and analysis for shale gas prospectivity
- The Western Canada Foreland Basin: a basin-centred gas system
- Tight gas exploration in the Pannonian Basin
- Natural fractures in some US shales and their importance for gas production
- Athabasca oil sands: reservoir characterization and its impact on thermal and mining opportunities
- Resource potential of gas hydrates: recent contributions from international research and development projects
- King coal: restoring the monarchy by underground gasification coupled to CCS
- Geological storage of carbon dioxide: an emerging opportunity
- History-matching flow simulations and time-lapse seismic data from the Sleipner C02 plume
- Differences between flow of injected C02 and hydrocarbon migration
- Preparing for a carbon constrained world; overview of the United States regional carbon sequestration partnerships programme and its Southwest Regional Partnership
Index

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