Petroleum provinces of the paratethyan region

Boote, D.R.D. Sachsenhofer, R.F. Tari, G. Arbouille, D.

Petroleum provinces of the paratethyan region - jul. 2018 - 51 p. ; 247-298

Transcripción del resumen del autor: Initial crustal collision between Africa and Eurasia in the middle Eocene – early Oligocene enclosed a semi-restricted Paratethyan seaway of linked basins and platforms across a region stretching from the Eastern Alps to the South Caspian Sea. As the African Plate continued to advance north during the later Neogene, the seaway shrank into a series of more isolated basins separated by the rising Alpine – Carpathian – Caucasus fold-thrust belts. Organic-rich oil-prone Paratethyan source rocks of middle Eocene (Kuma Formation and equivalents) and Oligocene – early Miocene (Maikop and Menilite Beds) ages, and more gas prone post-orogenic midupper Miocene shales, subsequently charged over 2500 accumulations across the region with combined recoverable reserves of 95 billion brl oil-equivalent (B boe). These accumulations are clustered in discrete petroleum provinces, each with a distinct tectonostratigraphic architecture and comprised of one or more petroleum systems.

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