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Summary

A regional hydrocarbon play concept diagram has been produced for platform to deep water regions, including the Miocene rifting hyperextension processes (i.e., sub salt plays), a sequential stratigraphy approach for the sedimentary products of the Messinian Salinity Crisis, and suprasalt plays related with post-rift salt tectonics. In addition, plays related with the Mesozoic-Cenozoic evolution of the Valencia Trough are also included. A large degree of uncertainty is present is the deep water area of this salt giant but many geological factors point to similarities with the prolific South Atlantic Salt Basins and to potential large hydrocarbon accumulations.

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2015-06-01
2024-04-20
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