Hydrocarbon and Petroleum Geology of France

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Exploration for and Production of Oil and Gas in France: A Review of the Habitat, Present Activity, and Expected Developments....Pages 3-27
A History of Petroleum Exploration in France....Pages 29-45
Regulations of Hydrocarbon Exploration and Production in France....Pages 47-49
Underground Gas Storage Facilities in France....Pages 51-60
Modeling Present and Past Thermal Regimes in the Paris Basin: Petroleum Implications....Pages 61-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Jurassic Series of the Paris-London Basin....Pages 77-105
Sequence Stratigraphy and Organic Matter Distribution of the Lias of the Paris Basin....Pages 107-119
Relationship Between Organic Matter and Sedimentation in the Lias of Lorraine (France)....Pages 121-136
An Integrated Approach to Reservoir Characterization for a Gas Storage in the Paris Basin....Pages 137-145
Management of Chaunoy Oil Field Multilayered Reservoir....Pages 147-153
Seismic Applications of a Paris Basin Shallow Geology Data Base....Pages 155-156
Liassic Source Rocks from Three Wells from the Sea of Iroise (French Western Approaches) and Dorset (UK) Outcrops: Nature and Modeled Maturity History....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Deep Seismic Investigation in the Parentis Basin (Southwestern France)....Pages 173-186
Subsidence in the Parentis Basin (Aquitaine, France): Implications of the Thermal Evolution....Pages 187-198
The Arzacq-Western Pyrenees ECORS Deep Seismic Profile....Pages 199-208
A Reinterpretation of the Stress Regime of the Aquitaine Basin, Southwestern France, and Implications for Hydrocarbon Recovery....Pages 209-219
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
Structure of the Gulf of Lions (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea): A Review....Pages 223-243
Multiphase Extensional Structures, Fault Reactivation, and Petroleum Plays in the Alpine Foreland Basin of Southeastern France....Pages 245-268
Thrust Propagation and Syntectonic Sedimentation in the Savoy Tertiary Molasse Basin (Alpine Foreland)....Pages 269-280
The Southern French Alps Paleogene Basin: Subsidence Modeling and Geodynamic Implications....Pages 281-293
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
The Mid-Cretaceous Organic-Rich Sediments from the Vocontian Zone of the French Southeast Basin....Pages 295-320
Reservoir Aspects in Relationship with Sequence Boundaries in Carbonate Platforms....Pages 321-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Transfer Zone in the Southern Jura Thrust Belt (Eastern France): Geometry, Development, and Comparison with Analogue Modeling Experiments....Pages 327-346
Triassic Transgressive-Regressive Cycles in the Bresse-Jura and Adjacent Basins, Eastern France....Pages 347-360
Petroleum Exploration in the French Rhine Graben....Pages 361-363
Mechanism of Fluid Paleocirculations in Fractured Rocks Determined by Vein Alteration Studies....Pages 365-378
Deformation of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais Carboniferous Coalfield (France) in the Variscan Frontal Tectonic Pattern....Pages 379-398
Polyphase Coalification in French Intermontane Coal Basins of the Late Carboniferous....Pages 399-407
Front Matter....Pages 409-409
The French Guyana Margin and the Demerara Plateau: Geological History and Petroleum Plays....Pages 411-422
Structure and Tectonic History of the Kerguelen Plateau....Pages 423-426
The Sedimentary Basins of the New Caledonia Region....Pages 427-429
Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Plays Around the French Antilles....Pages 431-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-447