Present-day hydrostatic hydrocarbon migration systems

In order to quantify the separate phase hydrocarbon migration under true or assumed hydrostatic conditions, the location of hydrocarbon expelling source rocks, the amount and characteristics of expelled hydrocarbons and the basin s hydrogeological framework should be known. 

The volume of hydrocarbons that actually have reached a certain trapping position in a presently stable hydrostatic basin is, in theory, also influenced by the time required for the hydrocarbons to reach the trap in relation to the time 

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