TY - GEN
T1 - Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin
AU - Meilijson, Aaron
AU - Finkelman, Emily
AU - Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Sarit
AU - Garrett Boudinot, F.
AU - Bialik, Or M.
AU - Coletti, Giovanni
AU - Steinberg, Josh
AU - Karcz, Kul
AU - Waldmann, Nicolas D.
AU - Sepúlveda, Julio
AU - Makovsky, Yizhaq
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Several oil shows have been reported from offshore and onshore wells of the Levant Basin, which promoted research and exploration as indicators for potential economic discoveries in the yet unpenetrated Mesozoic interval of the basin. In most cases, no definitive source to oil correlation has been established, advocating the need for the fingerprinting of regional source rocks to compare their organic geochemical signatures to those of oils. A summary of known properties of oils sampled from different wells in the region raised several questions regarding source–oil and oil–oil correlation, maturity, and source of the organic matter. In this part of the project we examined the Cretaceous section in the region by conducting a sedimentological and organic geochemical investigation of organic-rich intervals from ODP well material and onshore wells in the Levant region. We show that organic-rich Upper Cretaceous deposits, Turonian OAE2, and lowermost Cretaceous Barremian organic-rich deposits, should be considered as viable candidates for sourcing hydrocarbon formation in the deep basin, where they might have matured.
AB - Several oil shows have been reported from offshore and onshore wells of the Levant Basin, which promoted research and exploration as indicators for potential economic discoveries in the yet unpenetrated Mesozoic interval of the basin. In most cases, no definitive source to oil correlation has been established, advocating the need for the fingerprinting of regional source rocks to compare their organic geochemical signatures to those of oils. A summary of known properties of oils sampled from different wells in the region raised several questions regarding source–oil and oil–oil correlation, maturity, and source of the organic matter. In this part of the project we examined the Cretaceous section in the region by conducting a sedimentological and organic geochemical investigation of organic-rich intervals from ODP well material and onshore wells in the Levant region. We show that organic-rich Upper Cretaceous deposits, Turonian OAE2, and lowermost Cretaceous Barremian organic-rich deposits, should be considered as viable candidates for sourcing hydrocarbon formation in the deep basin, where they might have matured.
KW - Cretaceous
KW - Eastern Mediterranean
KW - Petroleum source rocks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85128925509&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_87
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_87
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85128925509
SN - 9783030730253
T3 - Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation
SP - 379
EP - 381
BT - Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-2, Tunisia 2019
A2 - Meghraoui, Mustapha
A2 - Sundararajan, Narasimman
A2 - Banerjee, Santanu
A2 - Hinzen, Klaus-G.
A2 - Eshagh, Mehdi
A2 - Roure, François
A2 - Chaminé, Helder I.
A2 - Maouche, Said
A2 - Michard, André
PB - Springer Nature
T2 - 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, CAJG-2 2019
Y2 - 25 November 2019 through 28 November 2019
ER -