Explorer Geophysical Corner
By Bent Erlend Kjolhamar,Graziella Kirtland Grech,Ritesh Sharma,Satinder Chopra
Many areas of the western Barents Sea host shallow as well as deep-seated hydrocarbon accumulations from which fluids are migrating to the sea floor. Evidence of past episodes of gas migration can be seen in the form of pockmarks on the sea floor as well as vertical pipes or chimneys on seismic sections.