Publisher's Synopsis
This is a review of the petroleum geology and geophysics of Europe and an attempt to illustrate the multidisciplinary nature of modern petroleum geoscience there. The chapters come from 20 of the 30 petroleum-bearing basins of Europe, spread from Norway to Italy and Ireland to Turkey. The authors discuss the genesis of petroleum in the basins, via the source rocks, maturity evolution, the nature and origin of the oil and gas fields, their reserves, and their reservoir description and management. Topics covered include the petroleum resourcs of Western Europe; regional overviews - Norway, Ireland, the Mediterranean; petroleum geology of individual basins - the Rhine Graben, Molasse, Vienna, Gulf of Valencia, Adratic, Southern Apennines, Pannonian, Thrace, south-east Turkey; source rocks/basin modelling - the nothern North Sea, the Palaeozoic of the Variscan Foreland; selected oil and gas fields - Brent, Everest, Helm, Q1, Drava, Rospo Mare - and special studies on topics such as well logging, satellite altimetry.
