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Petroleum trap

In petroleum geology, a trap is a geological structure affecting the reservoir rock and caprock of a petroleum system allowing the accumulation of hydrocarbons in a reservoir. Traps can be of two types: stratigraphic or structural. Structural traps are the most important type of trap as they represent the majority of the world's discovered petroleum…

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Stratigraphic trap

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Structural traps

AnticlineFault planeReservoir rockCap rockTectonic
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Hybrid trap

Tilted blocksOceanisation
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Petroleum geologyCaprockPetroleumHydrocarbonsReservoir
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Petroleum trap

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trap traps structural impermeable hydrocarbons rock petroleum reservoir stratigraphic fault salt dome geological structure type anticline caprock subsurface permeable geology

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