Abstract
A comprehensive, multi-disciplinary study involving structural geology, organic petrology, organic geochemistry and isotope geochemistry has been carried out on the structural and maturity development, source rocks, and hydrocarbons in 67 hydrocarbon fields within the Lower Saxony Basin, NW Germany. The hydrocarbons were generated from two source rocks, the Liassic Posidonia shale and the “Wealden” bituminous shales of Ryazanian age (occurring exclusively in the west). The occurrence of different oil types in the fields is explained by the regional distribution of the source rocks and the existence of reservoir rocks overlying the respective source rocks.
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