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AAPG 2013 EUROPEAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE & EXHIBITION
Exploring the Mediterranean: New Concepts in an Ancient Seaway
April 8-10, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
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Search and Discovery Article #90161 (2013)
Posted April 8, 2013
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Quantifying the Impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis on the Eastern Mediterranean Petroleum Systems, Messinian Evaporite Facies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Impact on Depth Conversion and Imaging of the Pre-Messinian, Geometry and Chronology of the Late Pleistocene Distal Almeria Fan (SW Mediterranean Sea), An Integrated Depth Imaging Workflow to De-risk Pre-Rosetta Prospects in the Nile Delta, The Jabal Al Akhdar anticline, Northeast Libya. Upper Cretaceous to Tertiary Tectonic Evolution, Influence on the East Mediterranean Ridge and Relation to the Sirt Basin, Structure and Evolution of the Gulf of Lions : the Sardinia Seismic Experiment and the GOLD (Gulf of Lions Drilling) Project, The Karstic Systems of the Vallès-Penedès half-graben (onshore of the Valencia Trough, NW Mediterranean), Basin Evolution and HC Plays in Albania, Seismic Imaging of Submarine Seismogenic Faults Beneath the Southern Alboran Sea, Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution and Exploration Potential of The Northern Levant Basin, Mega-Scale Swells and Diapirs in the Deep Levant Basin, Eastern Mediterranean, and their Association with Recent World-Class Gas Discoveries, Reconstructing the Early Pliocene Tectonostratigraphic Development of the Offshore Eastern Nile Delta, Egypt, Fluvial Aggradation vs. Tectonic Deformation: the Ambra Plio-Pleistocene Incised-valley Deposits (Tuscany, Italy), Quantifying Fracture Heterogeneity in Different Domains of Folded Carbonate Rocks in the Foothills of the Southern Tunisian Atlas, The Impact of Tectonics on the Provenance and Timing of Sediment Flux to the Levant Basin, Petroleum Systems of the Valencia Trough and Provence Basin – their Context in the Tectono-stratigraphic Development of the Western Mediterranean, The ‘Austrian Event’ of the Afro-Arabian Plate and its Influence upon Cretaceous Petroleum Systems, Timing and Types of Extension in the Westernmost Mediterranean from Onshore-Offshore Studies, The Offshore Lebanon Geological Framework from 2D Seismic Surveys Interpretation, Lower-Middle Miocene Play Fairway Opening Multi TCF Gas Discovery: Raven Field, Nile Delta, New Insights into the Mesozoic Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution of the Platform to Basin Transition in the Southern Adriatic Sea Area: Searching for Stratigraphic Traps, Source Rock Potential and Maturity Modeling in the Southern Adriatic Sea Area: Key Controls for Predicting Hydrocarbon Distribution, Deep-sea Record of Mediterranean Messinian Events (dream), The Oligo-Miocene Graben System of Sardinia (Italy) : a Novel Insight from New Seismic Profiles and Revised Bio-Stratigraphy, Sicily’s Foreland Fold/Thrust Belt and Slab Roll-back: the SI.RI.PRO. Seismic Crustal Transect, Structural Framework beneath the Alboran Sea: Inputs to Understand the Tectonic Evolution of the Gibraltar Arc System, Challenges for Offshore Exploration in Croatia, Crustal Thickness, Oceanic Lithosphere Distribution and OCT Structure for the Eastern Mediterranean from Gravity Inversion, Geodynamic Evolution of the Gibraltar Arc System: First Order Milestones Characterized by Geological Data, Active Sedimentation and Tectonics in the South Alboran Sea: Preliminary Results of the Marlboro and SARAS Surveys, Source Rock Potential of the Organic Rich Turonian - Upper Campanian Carbonates of Northern Lebanon, Fractured Inter-bedded Dolomites and Limestones in a Reservoir Analogue: Integrating Carbonate Sedimentology and Structural data from thin Section to Reservoir Scale, A Review of the Morphology, Structure and Depositional Pattern of the Western and Central Algerian Margin, Origins of Hydrocarbon Gas Seeping out from Offshore Mud Volcanoes of the Nile Delta (Egypt), Cenozoic Unconformities Control On Source And Reservoir Distribution In The Apulian Carbonates Of The Southern Apennines Thrust Belt, Evidences Of Extensional and Strike Slip Faulting in the Southern Apennines Thrust Belt. Impact on the Fault and Fracture Network and Dynamics in the Subsurface, Re-evaluation of the Western Alboran Basin History, Syn-sedimentary Dome-shaped Folding in the Southern Flank of the Sorbas Basin (SE Spain), Crustal Structure and Deformation of the Balearic Promontory: Insights from a Seismic and Gravimetric Study, Offshore Lebanon: Biogenic and/or Thermogenic Plays? An Answer from 3D Basin Modeling, Proposed Study in the Environmental Geological to Explore for Oil Shale Valley Tanezzuft Murzuq Basin for use in Power Generating in Libya, The Hitherto Unknown Parameters in the Architecture Model of the Alboran Sea fans: the Contouritic Processes, Geological Evolution and Hydrocarbon Potential in the Balearic Basin (Spain), The end of the Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Orisis: The Zanclean Flooding, Oil Groups in the East Mediterranean Continental Margin and Onshore, Israel, Crustal Structure of the Levant Basin and Impact on Basin Development and Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, From Extension to Transpression: Geomorphic Response to the Development of the Alhama de Murcia Strike-Slip Fault at a Morphotectonic Setting Inherited from Late Miocene Extension (Eastern Betics), Towards a 3D model of the Calcari Grigi Carbonate Platform (Early Jurassic, Southern Alps, Italy), Towards a Mechanistic Model for the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Tectonic Uplift Competing with Erosion along the Betic-Rifean Corridors, Imaging the Alboran Domain Using a Marine Electromagnetic Survey, Exploration in the Eastern Mediterranean, Offshore Israel – Ongoing Success and Future Challenges, Three-Dimensional Modeling of Dramatic Changes in Depositional Geometries of the Late Triassic Carbonate Platforms of the Southern Alps (Italy), Early Rise Followed by Late Reactivation of Distal Salt Diapirs in the Western Mediterranean, Structural Styles and Deformation in the Levant Basin Offshore Lebanon: New Insights from 3D Seismic Data, Structural Architecture and Evolution of the Southern Atlas Fold and Thrust Belt of Tunisia as Revealed by Field Data, Seismic Reflection Profiles and Cross Section Balancing, Recent Spatial and Temporal Changes in the Stress Regime along the Southern Tunisian Atlas Front and Gulf of Gabes: New Insights from Fault Kinematics Inversion, Late Miocene Extensional Tectonics in the Evolution of the Eastern Betics, an Example from the Neogene-Quaternary Sorbas Basin (SE Spain), Messinian to Quaternary Shortening Structures in the Palomares Margin: Partitioning of Deformation in an Oblique Convergence Margin (Algero-Balearic basin, Western Mediterranean), Neogene Gravity-driven Deformations around Gibraltar Arch Prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis, Early Tortonian Shallow Shelf Calcarenitic Deposits under Tidal Influence. Facies, Architecture and Quantification. Agua Amarga Basin, Almería. (SE Spain), Seismic Geomorphology of Cenozoic Mass Transport Complexes in Deepwater Offshore Canary Islands, Spain, An Offshore View of the Messinian Salinity Crisis: A review, Seismic Imaging of Active Faults in the Alboran Basin: Implications for Earthquake and Tsunami Hazards in the West Mediterranean Coasts, Messinian Sedimentation in the Offshore Sirt Basin of Libya, Salt Tectonics and Suprasalt Plays in the Mersin Basin, Eastern Mediterranean, Climate Evolution and its Impact on Sediment Dispersal in the Eastern Mediterranean, Hydrocarbon Potential of Early Eocene Rocks offshore Northern Libya, Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Evolution of Northern Lebanon Since the Late Cretaceous: Implications on the Levant Margin and Basin, Architecture, Geodynamic Evolution and Sedimentary Filling of the Levant Basin A 3D Quantitative Approach Based on Seismic Data, Nile Delta Gas Origin and Biogenic Gas Potential, Nile Delta Pliocene-Pleistocene Slope System Evolution from East to West: Impact on Exploration, Overview of the Tectonic Evolution of the Levantine Region on the Basis of Field Constrains, A Field Analogue for Buried Karst Reservoirs in the NW-Mediterranean, Record of NW Mediterranean Geodynamics in Paleokarsts of Southern France, Cold Water Coral Mounds in the Eastern Alboran Sea: Geomorphology and Environmental Context, Hydrocarbon-seep Scenarios in the Western Mediterranean Margin During the Messinian Salinity Crisis: Onland Case Studies from the Italian Peninsula, Late Cretaceous Extensional Tectonics and Intraplatform Basin Formation: Insights from Soft-sediment Deformation in the Sorrento Peninsula, Modeling Falling Stage to Early Transgressive Sedimentation in Linked Incised Valley and Deltaic Complexes: Outcrop and Borehole Data from the Nonmarine Santa Barbara Coalfield (Pliocene, Italy), Contourite Keys to Decode the Alboran Sea Sedimentary Evolution during the Plio-Quaternary, Carbonates of Miocene Mersin Basin, Turkish Mediterranean Sea, Petroleum Systems of Miocene Antalya Basin, Antalya Offshore, Turkey, Mediterranean, An Update of the Ne Mediterranean Geological Framework (Offshore Cyprus and Lebanon), Overview of the Structural Styles of the Petroleum Traps in the Pelagian Platform of Northern Africa, Structural Style of the Thrust Wedge of Northern Tunisia Based on Regional Transects, South Adriatic, Croatia, in Wider Adriatic and Mediterranean Context, Hydrocarbon Plays and Analogies, Petroleum Systems of the Southern Adriatic – an Overlooked Region?, Gravity-Driven Deformation in the Miocene Sequence: An Interplay between Tectonics and Eustasy Case Study from Romanian Offshore, Western Black Sea, Seismic atlas of the "Messinian Salinity Crisis" markers in the Mediterranean and Black seas – Volume 2, Formation MicroScanner (FMS) characterization of a Contourite Depositional System. Insights from IODP Expedition 339 in the Gulf of Cadiz, Offshore Cover Collapse Fields Related to Deep Messinian Karsts, Messinian Seismic Markers Offshore Eastern Sardinia: Important Tools for the Understanding of the Basin Geodynamical History, Salt Tectonics Controlled by Pre-, Syn- and Post-salt Basement Normal Faulting in the Tyrrhenian Sea, MSC Markers and Recent Deformation : the SIMBAD Cruise on the Balearic Promontory, Pervasive Seafloor Gas Flow along the Periphery of the Southeastern Mediterranean, Multi-scale Seismic Imaging of the Strike-slip Yussuf Fault System (Alboran Sea, Fault-controlled Stratabound Dolomitization of Aptian Shallow-water Carbonates in the SE Maestrat Basin (E Spain), Active Faulting on the Coral Patch Ridge Area (SW Iberian Margin) Based on High-resolution PSDM Seismic Profiles: Significance for Earthquake and Tsunami Hazard, Morphologic and Morphotectonic Syntheses of the Mediterranean Sea, Mud Vocanoes and Fluid Seepage in the Mediterranean Sea: A Regional Synthesis, Allochthonous Salt Sheets Associated with Cretaceous Rifting in the North African Margin, Examples from North Tunisia and Petroleum Implication, Revisiting Multi-Azimuth data using Reverse Time Migration and Vector Offset Output, Microbial-dominated Carbonate Platforms during the Ladinian Rifting: Analogical Models for Microbialite Reservoirs (Catalan Basin, NE Spain), Shelf-to-basin Floor Architecture of the Rosetta Turbidite System (Western Nile Delta, Egypt), Geotectonic Evolution of the Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea, Sediment Transfer and Play Concepts Associated with Large Infilled Valleys in the Southern Mediterranean as a result of the Interplay between Tectonic and Sea Level, Three Different Exploration Plays in the Marine Guadalquivir Foreland Basin in the Context of the Late Miocene Closure of the Thethys Ocean (South of Spain), Unlocking the Deep HPHT Oligocene Fairway in the Nile Delta and the 20K Technology Promise, Levant Basin Prospectivity (Offshore/Onshore Lebanon): Complex Basin-scale Tectono-Stratigraphy, The Tamar Field from Discovery to Production, Multiple Sources of Hydrocarbon Gases in Mud Volcanoes of the Gulf of Cadiz (SW Iberian Margin) – Insights from a Large Organic Geochemistry Data Set, Deepwater Egypt, Cyprus, and Levant - Integrating Regional Seismic Data with Geochemical Data to predict the Deeper Fluids Play, The Death and Rebirth of the Tamar/Leviathan Play Concept, Offshore Israel, Jurassic Petroleum Systems in the Western Thetys realm: A Case Study from the South-western Basque-Cantabrian Basin, Spain, Pre-evaporitic Messinian Sediments: a New Challenge for Oil Exploration in the Mediterranean Basin, Hydrocarbon Reservoirs Imaged with Seismic Frequency Domain DHI – A Case Study from the Nile Delta, Diagenetic Carbonates from Seafloor Crusts and Subseafloor Concretions from the Nile Deep Sea Fan (East Mediterranean) as Indicators of Hydrocarbon-rich Fluid Seepage, Diagenetic processes in the Tarragona Basin Oil Fields, Valencia Trough, offshore Spain, Geophysical Evidence of Fluid Seepage on the Tofiño and Xauen Banks, Alboran Sea, New Micropaleontological Investigations Deciphering Shallow and Deep Environments in the Alboran Basin around the Miocene – Pliocene Boundary, Characterization of Different Crustal Domains in the Central Tyrrhenian Sea from Wide-angle and near Vertical Seismics and Gravity Modelling, Arous Al-Bahar Gas Discovery, Area 54, Offshore Libya, Drilling Below the Salt in the Western Mediterranean Sea, The Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Adana Basin, (southern Turkey): New Data for the Exploration of the Taurus Petroleum System, The Formation of the Northern Tyrrhenian Basin in a Back-arc Rift Context: Interaction Among Faulting, Magmatism and Mantle Exhumation, A Geological Interpretation of the Gibraltar Arc System Based on New Seismic Reflection Images, Wide-angle Seismic Velocity Models, and Marine Magnetoteluric data Modeling, Geodynamic and Landscape Evolution of the PalaeoTethys and NeoTethys from the Jurassic to Recent, The Northwestern Margin of the Adriatic Carbonate Platform (Cansiglio, NE Italy), Outcrop Analogue for Subsurface Exploration in the Adriatic, Source Rocks in the Adriatic Area and Southern Apennines: Possible New Plays, Impact of Synsedimentary Mesozoic Tectonics on the Hydrocarbon Plays Offshore Sicily, New Exploration Opportunities in Greece with New Geophysical Techniques for Improved Geologic Understanding and Hydrocarbon Prospecting, Mesozoic and Cenozoic Basins Formation and Deformation along the North African Margin, Deep Seismic Structure of the SW Iberian Margin: Crustal Affinity of the Geological Domains and Geodynamic Implications, Inspiring New Prospectivity in the Italian Adriatic Basin, Inspiring new Prospectivity in the Italian Adriatic Basin, A Review of The Hydrocarbon Prospectivity offshore Greece – Based on Newly Acquired Seismic Data, Multiple Stages of Calcitization/Dedolomitization in the Fault-related Dolomite (Upper Albain), NW Spain: Petrographic, Geochemical and Isotopic Evidences, Impact of Seismic Reprocessing on & 3D Structural Model Building on Evaluation of Triassic Carbonate Prospects in the W Po Valley, The Slope Carbonates of the Apulian Platform – an under-explored Play in the Central Adriatic, Thin-Skinned Extension and Shale Tectonics in a Tilted Basin Margin: The Case of the Northern Alboran Sea (Western Mediterranean), Updated Stratigraphy from Mesozoic and Cenozoic Apulia Carbonates (Southern Italy): New Constraints to Interpret well and Seismic Data in the South Adriatic Area, Unconventional Petroleum Plays in the Mediterranean Basins, The Messinian Salinity Crisis, a Perspective for Reservoir Exploration in the Mediterranean and Adjacent Basins, Sequence Stratigraphic Analysis of Neogene Antalya Basin, Antalya Offshore, Turkey, Eastern Mediterranean, The Signature of the Mediterranean Messinian Salinity Crisis in the Black Sea and Caspian Basins: a Comparison, Sedimentary and Geodynamical 2D-3D Modeling of the Provence Continental Shelf during Mio-Pliocene Eustatic Events, Petroleum System Associated with Extensional Forced Folds with an Intermediate Decollement Level: Insights from the Basque-Cantabrian Basin (Spain), Is the Mountain front of the Apennines a Reliable Analogue for Reservoirs in the Adriatic Foredeep? The Role of Late-thrusting Extension on the Fracture Pattern in the Sibillini Fronal Anticline, Northern Apennines (Italy), The Crustal Architecture of an Inverted Rift: Constraints from the SIMA (Seismic Imaging of the Moroccan Atlas) Project, New Insights on the Buckling of the Apulian Foreland from the Eastern Salento Offshore (Apulian Swell - Italy), Double-Vergent Thrusting in the External Dinarides of Croatia: Consequences on Deposition, Tectonics and Hydrocarbon System Evolution, Present-Day 3D Structural Architecture of the Po Valley basin, Northern Italy (with special emphasis on the Top Mesozoic Geometries), Controls on the Petroleum Prospectivity of the Apulian Platform, Western Greece: Insights from Field and Subsurface Data, The Messinian Ebro River Continental Margin (NW Mediterranean) from 3D Seismic Reflection Data: Timing of Erosion and Preservation of Clastic Deposits, Salt Deformation and Sub-salt Fluid Circulation in the Algero-Balearic Abyssal Plain, Tectonic Trigger of Mass Movement Deposits in the Southern Alboran Basin, Early Onset and Rapid Growth of Sediment Depocenters Subsiding into Messinian Salt in the Tyrrhenian Sea, The SE- to E-dipping Betic-Rif Subduction-related Orogen: New Kinematic Model, Unusual but Effective Petroleum Systems – Disseminated Terrestrial Organic Matter of the Upper Oligocene as the Primary Source Rock, Offshore Nile Delta, Egypt, Outcrop/Behind Outcrop Characterization in Onshore Western Mediterranean Bbasins of Southern Iberia, Miocene Exploration Plays in the Mersin Basin, Turkish Mediterranean Sea, Petroleum Systems of Miocene Mersin Basin, Mersin Offshore, Turkey, Mediterranean, Italy Mesozoic Oils - Implications for Exploration in the Adriatic Sea, Hydrocarbon Plays and Prospectivity of the Mediterranean Ridge, Hydrocarbon Prospectivity in Apulian Platform and Ionian Zone, in Relation to Strike-slip Fault Zones, Foreland and Back-Thrust basins of Ionian Thrust in Greece, Post-breakup Compression in the Tyrrhenian Basin, |