Arctic Geology and Petroleum Potential

Preface. List of Contributors. Part I. General. Mesozoic hydrocarbon source-rocks of the Arctic region (T.L. Leith et al.). Natural gas hydrates: Arctic and Nordic Sea potential (M.D. Max, A. Lowrie). Part II. Greenland. The southern West Greenland continental shelf - was petroleum exploration abandoned prematurely? (J.A. Chalmers, T.C.R. Pulvertaft). Depositional history and petroleum geology of the Carboniferous to Cretaceous sediments in the northern part of East Greenland (L. Stemmerik et al.). Evidence for wrenching during Mid-Permian extension in central East Greenland (D.Q. Coffield). Moscovian bryozoan-dominated build-ups, northern Amdrup Land, eastern North Greenland (L. Stemmerik). Sedimentology and diagenesis of the Upper Permian Wegener Halvo Formation carbonates along the margins of the Jameson Land Basin, East Greenland (L. Stemmerik et al.). Part III. North American Arctic. T-R sequence stratigraphy, facies analysis and reservoir distribution in the uppermost Triassic-Lower Jurassic succession, western Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada (A.F. Embry, E.P. Johannessen). Evaluation of maturity and source rock potential in the Lougheed Island area of central Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada (F. Goodarzi et al.). The source-rock potential and thermal maturity of the sedimentary succession in the Drake and Hecla hydrocarbon fields, Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago (T. Gentzis, F. Goodarzi). Hydrocarbon potential of the St. George Basin, Bering Sea, Alaska (K. Carter, I. Lerche). Hydrocarbon loss from oil and gas fields of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands (D.C. Waylett, A.F. Embry). Crockerland - The northwest source area for the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Islands (A.F. Embry). Carboniferous and Permian reefs of Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic: An aid to Barents Sea exploration (B. Beauchamp). Part IV. Soviet Arctic. Main results of oil and gas prospecting in the Barents and Kara Sea inspire optimism (B.K. Ostisty, Y.F. Fedorovsky). Main petrolifereous Mesozoic complexes of the Arctic regions of western Siberia (I.I. Nesterov et al.). The Jurassic complex of the Barents Sea as a hydrocarbon exploration target (E.V. Zakharov, I.B. Kulibakina and G.N. Bogoslovskaya). The geology of Palaeozoic hydrocarbons in the eastern European U.S.S.R. and their relevance to the Barents Shelf (A. Heafford). Part V. Barents Sea: Overview. Hydrocarbon potential in the Barents Sea region: Play distribution and potential (S.E. Johansen et al.). Hydrocarbon potential of the Norwegian Barents Sea based on recent well results (R.M. Larsen, T. Fjaeran and O. Skarpnes). Hydrocarbon potential of the central Spitsbergen basin (A. Nottvedt et al.) Svalbard-Barents Sea correlation: A short review (A. Nottvedt et al.). Part VI. Barents Sea: Palaeozoic. Late Palaeozoic bioherm occurrences of the Finnmark Shelf, Norwegian Barents Sea: Analogues and regional significance (J.R. Bruce, D.F. Toomey).