Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin

Aaron Meilijson; Emily Finkelman; Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda; F. Garrett Boudinot; Or M. Bialik; Giovanni Coletti; Josh Steinberg; Kul Karcz; Nicolas D. Waldmann; Julio Sepúlveda; Yizhaq Makovsky

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_87

Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin

Aaron Meilijson, Emily Finkelman, Sarit Ashckenazi-Polivoda, F. Garrett Boudinot, Or M. Bialik, Giovanni Coletti, Josh Steinberg, Kul Karcz, Nicolas D. Waldmann, Julio Sepúlveda, Yizhaq Makovsky

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Abstract

Several oil shows have been reported from offshore and onshore wells of the Levant Basin, which promoted research and exploration as indicators for potential economic discoveries in the yet unpenetrated Mesozoic interval of the basin. In most cases, no definitive source to oil correlation has been established, advocating the need for the fingerprinting of regional source rocks to compare their organic geochemical signatures to those of oils. A summary of known properties of oils sampled from different wells in the region raised several questions regarding source–oil and oil–oil correlation, maturity, and source of the organic matter. In this part of the project we examined the Cretaceous section in the region by conducting a sedimentological and organic geochemical investigation of organic-rich intervals from ODP well material and onshore wells in the Levant region. We show that organic-rich Upper Cretaceous deposits, Turonian OAE2, and lowermost Cretaceous Barremian organic-rich deposits, should be considered as viable candidates for sourcing hydrocarbon formation in the deep basin, where they might have matured.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-2, Tunisia 2019
Editors	Mustapha Meghraoui, Narasimman Sundararajan, Santanu Banerjee, Klaus-G. Hinzen, Mehdi Eshagh, François Roure, Helder I. Chaminé, Said Maouche, André Michard
Publisher	Springer Nature
Pages	379-381
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	9783030730253
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_87
State	Published - 1 Jan 2022
Event	2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, CAJG-2 2019 - Sousse, Tunisia Duration: 25 Nov 2019 → 28 Nov 2019

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Name	Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation
ISSN (Print)	2522-8714
ISSN (Electronic)	2522-8722

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Conference	2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, CAJG-2 2019
Country/Territory	Tunisia
City	Sousse
Period	25/11/19 → 28/11/19

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Keywords

Cretaceous
Eastern Mediterranean
Petroleum source rocks

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Architecture
Environmental Chemistry
Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Meilijson, A., Finkelman, E., Ashckenazi-Polivoda, S., Garrett Boudinot, F., Bialik, O. M., Coletti, G., Steinberg, J., Karcz, K., Waldmann, N. D., Sepúlveda, J., & Makovsky, Y. (2022). Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin. In M. Meghraoui, N. Sundararajan, S. Banerjee, K.-G. Hinzen, M. Eshagh, F. Roure, H. I. Chaminé, S. Maouche, & A. Michard (Eds.), Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-2, Tunisia 2019 (pp. 379-381). (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73026-0_87

Meilijson, Aaron ; Finkelman, Emily ; Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Sarit et al. / Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin. Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-2, Tunisia 2019. editor / Mustapha Meghraoui ; Narasimman Sundararajan ; Santanu Banerjee ; Klaus-G. Hinzen ; Mehdi Eshagh ; François Roure ; Helder I. Chaminé ; Said Maouche ; André Michard. Springer Nature, 2022. pp. 379-381 (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation).

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Petroleum Potential of Cretaceous Source Rocks in the Levant Basin. / Meilijson, Aaron; Finkelman, Emily; Ashckenazi-Polivoda, Sarit et al.
Advances in Geophysics, Tectonics and Petroleum Geosciences - Proceedings of the 2nd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences CAJG-2, Tunisia 2019. ed. / Mustapha Meghraoui; Narasimman Sundararajan; Santanu Banerjee; Klaus-G. Hinzen; Mehdi Eshagh; François Roure; Helder I. Chaminé; Said Maouche; André Michard. Springer Nature, 2022. p. 379-381 (Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation).

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