Organic geochemistry of Cambro-Ordovician succession of Ny Friesland, Svalbard, High Arctic Norway: Petroleum generation potential and bulk geochemical properties

• Published in: Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
• Main Authors: Abay, Tesfamariam Berhane, Karlsen, Dag Arild, Olaussen, Snorre, Pedersen, Jon Halvard, Hanken, Nils-Martin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Barents Sea; Norway; Ny Friesland; Svalbard; Valhallfonna; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/97068; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.petrol.2022.111033

Lower Paleozoic source rock (SR) characteristics and paleo-depositional environments are not well understood in the Barents Sea region. Organic and inorganic geochemical analyses of 17 carbonaceous samples from the Lower Cambrian Tokammane Formation, the Lower to Middle Ordovician Kirtonryggen and V...