FUTURE HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION - ARE THE GEOLOGICAL LIMITS FOR THE HYDROCARBON PROSPECTION IN NORTHERN GERMANY IN SIGHT?

Regional geologic-tectonic frame of the Upper Paleozoic in Northwest Europe viewed with the Variscan orogen as domineering factor and viewed with the sedimentation sequences between the Central European and the Scandinavian plates as domineering factor. Recognition of zonar spread of geological units and consequent assumption of zonar spread also of hydrocarbon occurrences laterally and in age. Discussion of parameters important for hydrocarbon formation, accumulation and preservation under given conditions. Differing opinions by authors on hydrocarbon possibilities in clastics of Lower Permian and Carboniferous and in reef carbonates of Carboniferous and Devonian.