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Journal of Petroleum Geology

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Journal of Petroleum Geology, vol.2, No.4, pp. 353 -387, 1980

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UTILIZATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF VERTICAL OIL MIGRATION IN DEEP BASINS

Leigh C. Price*

*U.S. Geological Survey, Box 25046, Denver, Colorado, 80225, U.S.A.

Abstract

Use of the model of a hot, deep, origin of oil places rigid constraints on the migration and entrapment of crude oil. Specifically, oil originating from depth migrates vertically up faults and is emplaced in traps at shallower depths. Review of petroleum-producing basins worldwide shows oil occurrence in these basins conforms to the restraints of this hypothesis. Most of the world's oil is found in the very deepest sedimentary basins, and production over or adjacent to the deep basin is cut by, or directly updip from, faults dipping into the basin deep. Generally, the greater the fault throw, the greater the reserves.

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