Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol.7, No.2, pp.125-146, 1984

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CARBONIFEROUS OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION IN

THE EASTERN HEMISPHERE -- I

A. A. Meyerhoff*

* Associated Resource Consultants Inc., Tulsa, OK 74159, USA.

Abstract

Almost all production from Carboniferous formations in the Eastern Hemisphere comes from the Soviet Union, with less important production from the United Kingdom, the Southern North Sea basin, the NW German basin (from the northern Netherlands to Poland), Algeria, Ghana, the Gulf of Suez, China and Australia. However, Carboniferous coals extending from the eastern part of Great Britain to Poland were the source of the huge gas reserves that are found in Permian and Triassic reservoirs in the Southern North Sea-NW German basin complex. Production of oil during 1978 was approximately 2,680,000 b/d+ and of gas, about 20. 8 Bcf/d++. The USSR share was about 2.6 MM brl and 5.2 Bcf per day. Carboniferous production, which peaked in 1975, has since declined steadily.