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Geophysical history of Parentis oil field, France
Raoul Vajk and G. Walton
Geophysical history of Parentis oil field, France
Geophysics (July 1956) 21 (3): 815-827
Geophysical history of Parentis oil field, France
Geophysics (July 1956) 21 (3): 815-827
Index Terms/Descriptors
- Aquitaine Basin
- Bordeaux France
- cross sections
- drilling
- Earth-current methods
- economic geology
- Europe
- France
- geophysical exploration
- geophysical investigations
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- Gironde France
- gravity methods
- oil and gas fields
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- seismic methods
- seismic profiles
- surveys
- Western Europe
- Parentis oil field
- Parentis field
Latitude & Longitude
Abstract
Reviews the program of geophysical exploration in the northwest Aquitaine basin, France, which led to the discovery of the faulted anticlinal structure of the Parentis field, where oil production has been established from two zones in a lower Cretaceous limestone sequence.
ISSN: 0016-8033
EISSN: 1942-2156
Coden: GPYSA7
Serial Title: Geophysics
Serial Volume: 21
Serial Issue: 3
Title: Geophysical history of Parentis oil field, France
Pages: 815-827
Published: 195607
Text Language: English
Publisher: Society of Exploration Geophysicists,
Tulsa, OK,
United States
DOI:
10.1190/1.1438279
Accession Number: 1956-006318
Categories: Economic geology of energy sources
Document Type: Serial
Bibliographic Level: Analytic
Illustration Description: illus. (incl. sketch maps), 1956; abs.: Oil & Gas J. v. 54, No. 24, p. 130
N43°15'00" - N46°00'00", W01°30'00" - E02°00'00"
N44°49'60" - N44°49'60", W00°34'00" - W00°34'00"
Country of Publication: United States
Secondary Affiliation: GeoRef, Copyright 2017, American Geosciences Institute. Reference includes data from Bibliography and Index of Geology Exclusive of North America, Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, United States. Reference includes data supplied by Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Tulsa, OK, United States
Update Code: 1956