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• Seal capacity of breached and hydrocarbon-wet seals
  ...aps after initial fill could result in larger hydrocarbon columns. Only in basins with insufficient hydrocarbons to fill all traps to the maximum seal capaci
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• Surficial geochemical exploration principles
  * All petroleum basins exhibit some type of near-surface hydrocarbon leakage. * Permit high-grading of basins, plays, or prospects prior to acquiring leases or before conducting detaile
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• Calcareous microfossils
  ...) they are rare in many sections and (2) many species are endemic to local basins, so their age and environmental ranges are poorly understood. Ostracods typ * For local stratigraphy in basins of limited extent
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• Stratigraphic trap seals
  ...ky Mountain Foreland], in Macqueen, R., W., Leckie, D., A., eds., Foreland Basins and Fold Belts: [http://store.aapg.org/detail.aspx?id=143 AAPG Memoir 55],
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• Micropermeable seal leakage
  ...he seal to petroleum is low enough. These seals most likely occur in young basins where traps are still actively [[Calculating charge volume|charged]]. Becau ...than young accumulations. Many fields not filled to the spill point in oil basins with former prolific [[Petroleum generation|generation]] (such as those alo
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• Hydrostatic pressure-depth plot construction
  .... For the [[Gulf Coast Basin]], it is 0.465 psi/ft. For [[Rocky Mountain]] basins, it is 0.45 psi/ft. For fresh water, it is 0.433 psi/ft. If measured hydros ...th is not unique to the [[East Texas basin]] but is characteristic of most basins.
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• Fault plane profile construction
  ...] normal fault block faults at stable flank of foredeep basins and at rift basins]: AAPG Bulletin, vol. 72, no. 7, p. 813–840.</ref>Fault plane profiles ar
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• Petroleum system naming
  ...e, item, or idea. As geologists, we name rock units, fossils, uplifts, and basins. The name for a specific [[petroleum]] system separates it from other [[pet
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• Dip-leaking fault
  ...n the sand-shale ratio of the fault gouge. Other possible controls in some basins include asymmetric [[fracture]] density and/or preferential hydraulic fract ...ult seal behavior]] and spill points. However, disequilibrium may exist in basins now undergoing rapid migration and fill. The Los Angeles basin (California)
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• Limitations of oil correlations
  Many sedimentary basins contain more than one oil source unit. If two or more [[source rocks]] are ...ely because they lack distinguishing characteristics. Furthermore, in some basins several source rocks may have very similar geochemical signatures, making i
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• Natural hydraulic fracturing of top seals
  ...pore pressure has fractured the top seal and lost hydrocarbons in several basins, including the North Sea<ref name=ch10r70>Skerlec, G. M., 1982, Risking top ...cle/pii/026481729090056M Prediction of pore fluid pressures in sedimentary basins]: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 7, no. 1, p. 55-65. </ref> It may be nec
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• Libya hydrocarbon provinces
  ...II kerogen]], form the [[source rock]]s for the petroleum and gas in these basins. ...al., eds., The geology of Sirt Basin. Proceeding. 1st symposium, sediment basins of Libya, October 10-13, 1993, Tripoli, v. 1, p. 3–56.</ref> Since the Pr
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• China Shale Gas & Liquids - Songliao and Junggar Basins
  ...[mudstone]] and dolomite interbedded deposits are primarily found in these basins. Organic-rich shales are mainly distributed in the Lower Permian Fengcheng
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• Making regional tectonic maps
  ...}}Salt structures in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico and adjacent interior basins. Modified from Jackson and Galloway.<ref name=JacksonandGalloway_1984>Jacks ...es.com/data/specpubs/history2/data/a110/a110/0001/0550/0567.htm Intraslope basins in northwest Gulf of Mexico: a key to ancient submarine canyons and fans],
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• Burial destruction
  Methane is the most thermodynamically stable hydrocarbon in sedimentary basins.<ref name=ch11r16>Hunt, J. M., 1979, Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology: Sa ...o other gas is present to dilute it. High-nitrogen gas in thermally mature basins is possibly from [[coal]] sources<ref name=ch11r33>Stahl, W., H. Boigk, and
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• EMD Tight Oil & Gas Committee 2019-20 Annual Report
  ...asins in northwest China, and Songliao Basin in north China, and Bohai Bay Basins in northeast China as of 2018. ...Brazil has shale oil and gas potential in the Parana, Solimoes and Amazon Basins and is actively producing from the oil shale unit of the Irati Formation. I
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• Tethys region
  ...cross North Africa and Arabia, to intracontinental sub-[[basin]]s and rift-basins (Arabian plate and North Africa, respectively) in the Permian, which led to [[file:M106IntroFig01.jpg|thumb|300px|Basins, fields, and structures data from IHS International Energy Database (Januar
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• Mancos Shale Play in New Mexico
  ...ources of the San Juan Basin: Lessons for Other Basins, Lessons from Other Basins: The Mountain Geologist, v. 58, p. 43-103.</ref>.]]
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• 2021 Middle East Wiki Write Off
  * Gabriel Giacomone, María Eugenia Novara, and Josefina Vizcaíno [[Super basins]]
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• Tmax
  ...tns/1986-87/data/pg/0071/0012/1400/1445.htm Thermal history of sedimentary basins, maturation indices, and kinetics of oil and gas generation]: AAPG Bulletin
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