World Atlas of Oil and Gas Basins

This book is a summary of the life work of the petroleum geologist, Li Guoyu. His thesis is that any sedimentary rock filled basin is likely to have some oil and gas in it. This is likely as the sedimentary material when it is deposited will contain some organic material and if it is a basin it is, in effect, trapped. It does not follow that all basins contain oil or that those that do will be exploitable. However, it does provide a more optimistic view of carbon futures than models based on known deposits. Even if we cease to...