In petroleum geology, a trap is a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and caprock of a petroleum system allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons...

standard equipment, and gushers became a thing of the past. In the modern petroleum industry, uncontrollable wells became known as blowouts and are comparatively...

Look up trap in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A trap is a device used for trapping animals. Trap or TRAP may also refer to: Trap (2015 film), Filipino...

the naturally occurring hydrocarbons, such as crude oil (petroleum) or natural gas, are trapped by overlying rock formations with lower permeability, while...

elaborate equipment. Petroleum geologists look at the structural and sedimentary aspects of the stratum/strata to identify possible oil traps or tight shale...

The name petroleum covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude oil and petroleum products that consist of refined crude oil. Petroleum is primarily...

as seismic reflection. They are important in petroleum geology as they can function as petroleum traps. Stratigraphically, salt basins developed periodically...

significant, measurable and predictable. Energy portal Source rock Petroleum trap Fracking in the United States Environmental impact of fracking Coalbed...

exploration). Petroleum geology is principally concerned with the evaluation of seven key elements in sedimentary basins: Source Reservoir Seal Trap Timing Maturation...

on the top of mesa formations. In the petroleum industry, caprock is any nonpermeable formation that may trap oil, gas or water, preventing it from migrating...

by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas, in the Earth's crust using petroleum geology...

to the geological theories, there were good chances of finding a petroleum trap trapped above the groundwater in Hatira Ridge where HaMakhtesh HaGadol resides...

is used in petroleum geology to describe a stratigraphic trap created by a pinch-out. Petroleum migrating through a porous stratum is trapped where the...

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Heritage Petroleum Company Ltd. Trinidad Petroleum Holdings also owns Guaracara Refining Company Ltd, which operates the nation's only petroleum refinery...

structural petroleum traps. In many rift basins around the world, the vast majority of discovered hydrocarbons are found in conventional traps associated...

The abiogenic petroleum origin hypothesis proposes that most of earth's petroleum and natural gas deposits were formed inorganically, commonly known as...

The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation...

The Deccan Traps is a large igneous province of west-central India (17–24°N, 73–74°E). It is one of the largest volcanic features on Earth, taking the...

(1893–1979) in 1920 for determination of the water content in petroleum. Two types of Dean–Stark traps exist – one for use with solvents with a density less than...

often found in anticlinal traps. In fact, about 80 percent of petroleum found on Earth has been found in anticlinal traps. Anticlines are folds in stratigraphic...

these systems have been motivated by their possible use to mobilize petroleum trapped in porous sandstone for enhanced oil recovery. A fundamental reason...

This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar...

oil resource rock requires Structural traps which are mainly salt dome, coral reefs, fault trap and fold trap. In case of Mumbai High, the structure...

M.; Stevens, M. K. (2002). "Basin Development with Implications for Petroleum Trap Styles of the Neoprotorezoic Officer Basin, Western Australia": 913...

surface and forms pools, becoming asphalt as the lighter fractions of the petroleum biodegrade or evaporate. The asphalt then normally hardens into stubby...

feed on dead insects and other arthropods that become trapped in naturally occurring petroleum pools, making this the only known insect species that develops...

shales of the Toarcian Togur Bed. Traps are structural, stratigraphic, or a combination of the two. The total petroleum system was assessed as a single...

A petroleum seep is a place where natural liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons escape to the Earth's atmosphere and surface, normally under low pressure or...

Debt-trap diplomacy is a term to describe an international financial relationship where a creditor country or institution extends debt to a borrowing nation...