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Journal of Petroleum Geology

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Journal of Petroleum Geology, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 127-156, 1990

©Copyright 2000 Scientific Press, Ltd.

THE CASE FOR EARLY GENERATION AND ACCUMULATION OF OIL

H. H. Wilson*

* Banner Energy, 3000 Post Oak Boulevard, Suite 1600, Houston, Texas 77056, USA.

Abstract

Uncertainties remain concerning the common assumption that economic oil pools result only from deep, catagenic oil generation. These uncertainties stem from the many geological criteria that point to early oil entrapment and, furthermore, from the failure to resolve problems of oil migration out of, and through, consolidated sediments.

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