New and Mature Carbonate Plays Revive Exploration in Albania

P518 NEW AND MATURE CARBONATE PLAYS REVIVE EXPLORATION IN ALBANIA Summary Part of the oil found in Albania until now was produced from carbonate reservoir plays. New carbonate play types got developed through the use of Satellite Image interpretation balancing cross sections and petroleum systems modelling. Together with the interpretation of new geophysical data the future exploration potential is highlighted in this paper 1 PETER SEIFERT ZAMIR BEGA and ADRIAN BALLAURI OMV Albanien. Rr. ‘P. Bogdani“ No. 36 Tirana Albania Introduction Since the early 1930‘s exploration for hydrocarbons took place in Albania. About 3.1 billion barrels oil and 140 BCF