Unconventional petroleum systems in NW-Germany and the Netherlands : a 3D numerical basin modeling and organic petrography study

In times of rapidly growing energy demands petroleum exploration focus has shifted more and more towards unconventional petroleum systems due to increasing difficulties in finding and profitably producing from conventional oil and gas fields but also due to recent increases in gas price and enhanced recovery techniques, such as horizontal drilling and hydraulic stimulation which allow production from these tight low-permeable reservoirs. Based on the successful exploration of and production from U.S. American shale gas/oil plays it was discussed whether similarly successful plays would also be... Mehr ...