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• Traps and oil/gas production with commentary, Part I | Living in the Shadow of Mountains.

  So, now we know where the organic material for petroleum come from, we know how it’s converted from it’s original state to a liquid/gas state, we know how it migrates out of the source rock and throug...

• Petroleum geochemistry, mechanics, confusions and explanations: Part I | Living in the Shadow of

  Whenever you log onto a news website, there is inevitably an argument by some politician, social group, or just normal people about how petroleum is ruining/running/destroying the world (especially wh...

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• About | Living in the Shadow of Mountains.

  This blog is dedicated to teaching anyone who wants to learn, about the process of understanding how the Earth on which we live came to be in it's current form, as well as understanding how we find re...

• Petroleum geochemistry, mechanics, confusions and explanations: Part 2: Migration | Living in the

  Now that we have a basic understanding of how hydrocarbons (both liquid and gas) are formed from the original organic material, we need to figure out how it gets into a place that it is allowed to acc...

• How a geologic project works | Living in the Shadow of Mountains.

  I'm always amazed at how geology is portrayed in the media, particularly within the movies. There will be some natural disaster, and you'll cue to some geologist with a huge computer that is displayin...