PETROGRAPHY OF PYROBITUMENS IN MIDDLE – LATE JURASSIC SANDSTONES FROM THERMALLY DEGRADED HYDROCARBON ACCUMULATIONS, EAST GREENLAND

• Published in: Journal of Petroleum Geology
• Main Authors: Strogen, Dominic P., Marshall, John E. A., Whitham, Andrew G., Andrews, Steven D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2023
• Subjects: Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous); Geology; Energy Engineering and Power Technology; Fuel Technology; Greenland; Jan Mayen; Traill Ø; East Greenland; North Atlantic; Traill ø
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpg.12845; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jpg.12845

A number of exhumed hydrocarbon traps have been described from the Traill Ø region of East Greenland. This study focuses on the Bjørnedal area where the distribution of bitumen has been mapped out. Bitumen staining clearly has a cross‐cutting relationship to stratigraphic units and can be shown to f...