Abstract
Coals are oil source rocks in many of the Tertiary basins of Southeast Asia. The precursors of these hydrogen-rich and oxygen-poor coals are coastal plain peats which have mainly developed in an everwet and tropical climate. In these environments water flow and reworking can concentrate liptinitic kerogen in preference to vitrinitic kerogen. The distribution, petrography and chemistry of the coaly Miocene source rocks present in the Kutai Basin are described. Studies of Tertiary and contemporaneous coastal plain deposits can be applied to trends in source rock distribution in offshore Norway. Comments on the environment of deposition of coaly sediments in the basins of the Norwegian Sea are discussed with reference to their possible oil and/or gas sourcing potential. The Triassic—Jurassic coals of the Haltenbanken area may become more oil-prone towards the delta margins, and facies mapping could aid oil exploration in this area.
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Thompson, S., Cooper, B.S., Morley, R.J., Barnard, P.C. (1985). Oil-generating coals. In: Thomas, B.M. (eds) Petroleum Geochemistry in Exploration of the Norwegian Shelf. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4199-1_4
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