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AAPG Studies in Geology No. 48 / SEG Geophysical References Series No. 11, Chapter 14: Mitigation of Drilling Risk with Near-surface Hydrocarbon Detection, a Case Study: Gulf of Suez, Egypt, by J. L. Gevirtz and J. M. Vargo, Pages 361 - 380
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AAPG Studies in Geology No. 48 / SEG Geophysical References Series No. 11: Surface Exploration Case Histories: Applications of Geochemistry, Magnetics, and Remote Sensing, Edited by Dietmar Schumacher and Leonard A. LeSchack
Copyright © 2002 by The American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. All rights reserved.

Chapter 14
Mitigation of Drilling Risk with Near-surface Hydrocarbon Detection, a Case Study: Gulf of Suez, Egypt

This chapter is a modified version of a paper published in the
Association of Petroleum Geochemical Explorationists Bulletin, 1993, v. 9, p. 1-31.

J. L. Gevirtz
InterScience
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

J. M. Vargo
Burlington Resources, International Division
Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

ABSTRACT

In the last 50 years, surface geochemical detection of microseeps has gained credibility as a viable petroleum exploration tool. Traces of organic compounds measured in the near-surface sediments provide a rapid and inexpensive method for diagnosing the probable hydrocarbon content of potential trapping features that have been delineated in the subsurface by seismic methods.

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