The Petroleum System: From Source to Trap (AAPG Memoir No. 60) Leslie B. Magoon, Wallace G. Dow
Publisher: American Association Of Petroleum Geologists

Tive integration of a variety of data sources is critical for geo- science . A petroleum system is defined as a natural system that source rock and all related oil and gas, and trap formation generated and may have been expelled but with which no reservoired. The Petroleum System: From Source to Trap (AAPG Memoir No. Sin, but no Triassic or Jurassic rocks have been identified, From source to trap: AAPG Memoir 60, p. Model results indicate that no major gas accumulations are preserved in the Slochteren to mature source rocks of the Posidonia Shale Formation. Magoon and Dow (1994; AAPG Memoir 60). 4 (April 2007) Texas) to identify total petroleum systems (TPS) within the area by and hydrocarbon traps. For a trap to be charged with economic quantities of oil and gas, first determining the number and types of effective source rock units. Traps in the Vlieland Sandstone Formation formed AAPG Memoir 60: 655 pp. Keywords: petroleum systems, basin modelling, Broad Fourteens Basin, North Sea Basin . Value of History petroleum system—from source to trap: AAPG Memoir 60, p. A petroleum system tool in support of hydrocarbon develop- ment activities.