Abstract
Petroleum and natural gas are the remains of plants and animals deposited and buried in the geological past. With time, they have migrated to traps, formations of porous rock sealed above by impermeable rock, from which the hydrocarbons can be produced commercially (Fig. 1). These traps occur in the sedimentary basins of the world, both onshore and on continental shelves offshore.
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Cox, R.A.F. (1982). Introduction. In: Cox, R.A.F. (eds) Offshore Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3307-0_1
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