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South Levantine Basin
South Levantine Basin
For Lebanon
Council Of Ministers
Petroleum Administration
Tanin
2011GasDiscovery,
130ftnetpay
LowerMioceneTamarsands.
Reserves:Mean1.1TCF
MC 3D
Aphrodite
2011GasDiscovery
310ftnetpay Tamar
Miocenesands 2009GasDiscovery
Reserves:Mean7TCF 460ftnetMid LowerMiocenesands
ReservesMean8TCF
Leviathan
2010GasDiscovery Dolphin
220ftnetpay 2011Gasdiscovery
LowerMiocenesands Tamarsands
Reserves:Mean17TCF. Reserves:Meanca0.5TCF
*Reporteddeeperthermogenic
gaszoneat21,000ft
Dalit
2009GasDiscovery
Shimsom LowerMioceneSands
2012GasDiscovery Reserves:Mean0.5TCF
Reserves:Mean4TCF.
Reservoir
ExtrapolatingfromsouthernLevant,northwardsintosouthLebanon
SandProvenance
PaleogeographyofthethickMioceneSedimentswithintheLevantineBasin
Pab Range Analogue
N
NubianSedimentSource BraidedNileDelta
UpperDepositionalLobes
Lower LavantRamp
Depositional ProximalandDistalFanChannels LevantRamp
Lobes
EratosthenesSeaMount
Syrian
Arc
Sand
Provenance
Fairways
Reservoir
SandProvenance
After Peace,
Petex Nov 2012
SandQuality
3200m BML
4200m BML
ExtrapolatingfromsouthernLevant,northwardsintosouthLebanon
Oligocene immature even for oil beneath Tamar yet Mature and expelling oil in North
Levant Basin since Messinian times.
Mesozoic source is thermogenic Gas Mature in North Lebanon
OligoceneOilandGasSource
ExpellingoilfromMessinian
timestorecent
Charge
ExtrapolatingfromsouthernLevant,northwardsintosouthLebanon
Comparative structure
N and S levant Basins
Leviathan and
Hyperion at the same
horizontal scale
W-E Hyperion
W-E line showing far
greater complexity in
the Leviathan
structure:- 20 TCF
W-E Leviathan
Prospectivity: 2D
Prospectivityunder1stPhase
Cronus Phoebe
TopLowerMioceneTWT
Canyonlands, Utah
Lebanon 3D
(Tari et al, 2012)
SWLebanon3DSeismic:LookingNorth TopEarlyMiocenesurface
Cronus
Phoebe
TopLowerMioceneTWT
Mega Closure
Oceanus
Cronus
Phoebe
Initial E Miocene
RED: Closures in TWT AVO analysis:-
Very Promising
OceanusStructure:
Amplitudeonseabedoverpockmark
Gas Chimney
Late
inversion at
Base salt
Q.IstheremorethanabiogenicgasplaytochaseinSouthLebanon?
A.NorthLevantisanOilandGasBasin:OilSeeps,Basinmodelsandproven
wetgasdemonstrateathermogenicsourceinthebasin.
Q.IstheBestMiocenereservoirlocatedinSouthLebanon?
A.Miocenechannelstransportedsandfromthesouthdepositinga
sequencethreetimesthickerintheLebanesebasin.
Q.ArethebeststructuresinSouthLebanon?
A.SouthLebanonhasbiggerandlesscomplexstructuringthansouth
Levant,locatedwithintheSpectrum3Darea.
3DrevealsoffshoreLebanonwillbeamajornewoilandgasprovince.
TimetoPrequalify!