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The Black Sea, a Tertiary Basin - Observations and Insights
- Publisher: European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers
- Source: Conference Proceedings, 80th EAGE Conference and Exhibition 2018, Jun 2018, Volume 2018, p.1 - 5
Abstract
“There has been a longstanding debate on age and kinematics of the opening of the Black Sea Basins. This paper presents observations and insights from seismic and a key deep water well tie ( Nikishin et al, 2015 ) that constrains the age of the opening. Previous estimates of timing of opening have included the Middle Jurassic ( Hossack, 2004 , Derman and Vincent, 2010 and Veincent and Rice, 2010 ), the Cretaceous, Cenomanian to Mid Santonian ( Nikishin et al, 2015 ), Paleocene ( Robinson et al 1995 ) and Eocene ( Lordkinpanidze, 1980 , Kazmin et al. 2000 , Yilmaz et al, 2000 and Vincent et al. 2005 ).
Constraining the age is critical for projecting petroleum elements into the basin from the surrounding marginal petroliferous basins and to enable a full understanding of drilling results in the basin to date which have had no significant commercial oil discoveries in deep water.”