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Recently I have been told about an article of Dr.Van Waterschoot van der Gracht, one of the founding fathers of the Geological Survey of the Netherlands, in an AAPG Bulletin, dating from 1936, in which he stated: “I believe that Palaeozoic accumulations of petroleum may be expected in Europ” (Van Waterschoot van der Gracht 1936). We can smile about it today, but at the time, it was a daring prediction.
Keynote address to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ International Conference ‘New views on old world oil — Technology leads the way’, The Hague, 18 October 1993.
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Van Waterschoot van der Gracht, W.A.J.M. 1936 Possibility of oil and gas production from Paleozoic formations in Europe — Amer. Ass. Petroleum Geol. Bull. 20: 1476-1493
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Dessens, C.W.M. (1996). The role of oil and gas in the Dutch energy policy. In: Rondeel, H.E., Batjes, D.A.J., Nieuwenhuijs, W.H. (eds) Geology of Gas and Oil under the Netherlands. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0121-6_2
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