The exploration of tight oil reservoirs has achieved a big success, especially in the Huahai Depression, Jiuquan Basin, China, but the characteristics and formation mechanisms of the tight oil ...

Overpressure is one of the most important factors for oil and gas charging in petroliferous basins. Research on overpressure evolution and its formation mechanisms is of great significance for ...

Process I indicates that hydrocarbons undergo self-generation, self-storage and micromigration in felsic-rich laminated shale. Process II indicates that hydrocarbons undergo self-generation, ...

New results from the Gulf of Corinth, Greece, a continental rift zone where the first stage of ocean basin formation is taking place, show how the environmental conditions and sediment input into the ...

Exploration and production companies should target traps above Potwar basin’s Lockhart formation to increase oil and gas production. Source-rock sedimentology for Potwar basin, host to most of ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle, tugging the surface down and subtly reshaping the landscape. The process ...