CARBONIFEROUS NON‐MARINE SOURCE ROCKS FROM SPITSBERGEN AND BJØRNØYA: COMPARISON WITH THE WESTERN ARCTIC

• Published in: Journal of Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: van Koeverden, J.H., Karlsen, D. A., Backer‐Owe, K.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2010
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Bjørnøya; East Greenland; Finnmark; Greenland; Svalbard; sverdrup basin; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-5457.2011.00493.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1747-5457.2011.00493.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1747-5457.2011.00493.x

In this paper, we demonstrate that Carboniferous coaly and lacustrine strata have significant liquid hydrocarbon potential in an area extending from the Norwegian Barents Sea in the east to the Canadian Arctic in the west. Organic geochemical analyses were conducted on seven coals and coaly shales f...