Oil & Gas Geology Terms

Anticline

Bed

Bedrock

Bentonite

Caprock

Carbonate rock

Conglomerate

Connate water

Crude oil

Dolomite

Dome

Effective Permeability

Effective Porosity

Eolian

Fault

Fault Plane

Fault Zone

Field

Floodplain

Fold

Fracture

Geology

Graben

Ground water

Horst

Igneous rock

Lacustrine

Limestone

Magma

Metamorphic rock

Natural Gas

Oil pool

Oil sand

Oil shale

Organic

Outcrop

Pangea

Permeability

Petroleum

Plate tectonics

Pore space

Porosity

Relief

Reservoir

Rock cycle

Salt dome

Sandstone

Sedimentary rock

Shale

Strata

Structural trap

Sunsidence

Syncline

Tectonic

Tight formation

Tight sand

Trap

Viscosity

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