Global Source Rock Monitor - Work is in progress
Southern Australia
La Trobe coal, thought to be the source of the Bass Straight condensate and gas
England
Kimmeridge Clay, Dorset
Kimmeridge Clay, North Yorkshire
The Kimmeridge Clay Formation is a key contributor to the oil and gas in the Central and Northern North Sea.
It is also now the focus of unconventional oil and gas exploitation in the Weald Basin (Horse Hill).
Lower Jurassic, Liassic, Dorset & North Somerset
Westphalian
Albertite
Albert Mines, near Hopewell Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carboniferous (Ca. 350ma) black bituminous coal which was mined in the late 1800's to extract gas for street lamps and to distil out kerosene.