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prairye and led people like Patillo Higgins and Anthony Lucas too
drill for oil.

9 Translate the following expressions at a quick pace.
Встановлювати місцезнаходження покладів нафти і газу,
перешкоджати перетіканню на поверхню, складатися із суміші
вуглеводнів, бути економічно вигідним, характеризуватися
відсутністю вуглеводню, проводити бурильні роботи на
горбистій місцевості, простягатися на сотні миль, протікаючий
купол сприяє утворенню.

Translation section
10 Translate the following sentences from English into
Ukrainian.
1 Stratigraphic traps form when upper beds seal a reservoir
bed or when the permeability changes within the reservoir bed
itself.
2 Many traps occur. In a combination trap, for example, more
than one kind of trap forms a reservoir.
3 Another trap is a piercement dome. In this case, a substance
– a salt is a common one – pierced surrounding rock beds.
4 Structural traps form because of a deformation in the rock
layer that contains hydrocarbons. Two examples of structural traps
are fault traps and anticlinal traps.
5 A hydrocarbon reservoir has a distinctive shape that
prevents the escape of hydrocarbons that migrate into it.
Geologists classify reservoir traps into two types: structural traps
and stratigraphic traps.
6 Wind and water eroded formations, earthquakes buried
them, and new sediments fell onto them.
7 Even while the earth changed, the weight of overlying rocks
continued to push downward, forcing hydrocarbons out of their

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