The Petroleum Systems of Israel

Gardosh, Michael; Tannenbaum, Eli

doi:10.1306/13431857m106298

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“…Altogether, the Messinian evaporite unit serves as a regional seal to the current exploration target in the Oligo-Miocene reservoirs (Gardosh and Tannenbaum, 2014). This is consequence of the low permeability of rock salt (in-situ permeability of undisturbed rock Steinberg et al, 2008;Bertoni et al, 2013).…”

Section: Fluid Flow Across the Levant Basin And Marginmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Evidences of fluid flow structures within the post-evaporitic overburden might signify a direct link toward deeper hydrocarbon prospectivity (sensu Heggland, 1998), yet questioning the integrity of the Messinian evaporite as sealing unit (Schenck et al, 2010;Gardosh and Tannenbaum, 2014).…”

Section: Fluid Flow Across the Levant Basin And Marginmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This same deep source of fluid is invoked for driving the evaporite dissolution. Most likely, these fluids are biogenic gas since the major gas fields in deepwaters offshore Israel and close to the study area are of this composition (Tamar and Dalit gas fields; Gardosh and Tannenbaum, 2014), although a minimal thermogenic input cannot be total discounted.…”

Section: Origin Of Fluids: Role Of Gas In Pipe Formationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Messinian evaporite unit exerts major control on basin fluid flow across the Mediterranean (Lastras et al, 2004;Cartwright, 2005, 2014;Gradmann et al, 2005;Zitter et al, 2005;Netzeband et al, 2006b;Camerlenghi and Pini, 2009;Clari et al, 2009;Hübscher et al, 2009;Micallef et al, 2011;Iadanza et al, 2013;Natalicchio et al, 2013;Mascle et al, 2014). Although the Messinian evaporite serves as regional seal (Bertoni and Cartwright, 2005;Gardosh and Tannenbaum, 2014), there are compelling evidences documented over the last decade suggesting fluids bypassing this supposedly sealing sequence albeit most of which have been documented along the Northern and Southern Levant margin (Bertoni and Cartwright, 2005;Frey-Martinez et al, 2005b;Fuhrmann, 2010;Netzeband et al, 2006b;Reiche et al, 2014). In addition there are also evidences of an intra-Messinian fluid plumbing documented in the Levant Basin (Lazar et al, 2012;Bertoni et al, 2013;Reiche et al, 2014) and elsewhere in the Western Mediterranean (Pierre et al, 2002;Clari et al, 2009;Iadanza et al, 2013;Natalicchio et al, 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nonetheless, a detailed analysis of the nature of subsurface fluid flow in the supra-Messinian succession in the central Levant Basin has never been the focus of any previous systematic study. During the last decade, there have been proliferation of deep-water geophysical datasets in the Levant Basin (>500 m; Weimer and Slatt, 2007), consequent of the ongoing exploration campaigns (Gardosh and Tannenbaum, 2014). The resurgence in hydrocarbon exploration activities in the region necessitate better understanding of the distribution and evolution of subsurface fluid flow features.…”

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Intra- to post-Messinian deep-water gas piping in the Levant Basin, SE Mediterranean

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Internal deformation of the southeast Levant margin through continued activity of buried mass transport deposits

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Mass transport deposits (MTDs) are commonly regarded as motionless evidences of past mass wasting events. Three‐dimensional seismic surveys acquired offshore central Israel reveal continued long‐lasting and even current deformation of >1.5 Myr old MTDs, now buried hundreds of meters beneath and still impacting the seafloor. Faulting and folding of the Messinian‐Pliocene unconformity (M), at the base of the studied interval, represent the possible impacts of tectonic and halokinematic deformation. However, an ~200 m thick continuous stratified unit straddles the M and entirely separates the overlaying Plio‐Quaternary sedimentary stack from underlying faulting. Overlaying and etched into this stratified unit are headscarp regions of two up to 450 m thick buried MTDs, characterized by distinct combinations of chaotic seismic reflections and typically ~1 km wide detached and rotated blocks. “Crowns” of growth faults emanate upward from these MTD headwalls, truncating and deforming the overburden and offsetting overlaying reflections by tens of meters up to ~100 m below the seafloor. Moreover, asymmetric sagging and faulting of the overburden mimic the layout and flow pattern of the MTDs and rafted blocks within, providing kinematic indications of combined compaction and lateral flow. These observations imply that the MTDs undergo continuous postslumping differential compaction, combined with lateral mobilization. Additional smaller and younger buried MTDs distributed within the overburden are observed to portray similar deformation kinematics. We suggest that the buried MTDs provide deformational foci and pathways for downslope internal collapse of the continental margin at large, offering a new possible mechanism of thin‐skinned extension.

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Occurrence and Genesis of Cold‐Seep Authigenic Carbonates from the South‐Eastern Mediterranean Sea

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Methane‐derived authigenic seep carbonates occur globally along continental margins. These carbonates are important archives to identify seep dynamics, the source of the ascending methane‐enriched fluids together with their timing, and are an important carbon sequestration mechanism. Recently, seep carbonates were discovered in the Levant Basin in the South‐Eastern Mediterranean Sea. To elucidate past seepage activity and dynamics across the basin, different seep carbonate morphologies (chimneys, crusts and pavements) retrieved from the Levant Basin were mapped based on remotely operating vehicle data and analysed using standard sediment petrographic techniques, X‐ray diffraction and stable carbon and oxygen isotope analyses. Carbonate chimneys consist of micrite (δ13CVPDB of ‐10 to +5 ‰) with dispersed barite and dolomite crystals, fan‐shaped aragonite (δ13CVPDB of ‐52 to ‐30 ‰) and high‐magnesium calcite cements, with the latter often growing from low‐magnesium calcite spherules. Botryoidal low‐magnesium calcite cements are forming in small cavities. Carbonate crusts consist of micrite with low‐magnesium calcite breccias, high‐magnesium calcite nodules (δ13CVPDB of ‐35 to ‐20 ‰) and cements, and partially replaced fan‐shaped aragonite cements. Carbonate pavements consist of low‐magnesium calcite microsparite, micritic dolomite and high‐magnesium calcite. Fan‐shaped aragonite is locally present as pore‐lining cement. Iron‐oxides are often seen coating the low‐magnesium calcite, high‐magnesium calcite and dolomite cements. Chimneys and crusts, characterised by high amounts of high‐magnesium calcite and aragonite, are interpreted to have formed through advective methane fluxes. Pavements, with high quantities of dolomite, are explained as the product of diffusive methane flux. Sediment petrographic and geochemical analysis of the different carbonate morphologies and cement phases therein witness distinct modes of ascending fluid fluxes and their mixing with marine porewater and/or seawater during precipitation of the individual phases.

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The Petroleum Systems of Israel

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Intra- to post-Messinian deep-water gas piping in the Levant Basin, SE Mediterranean

Intra- to post-Messinian deep-water gas piping in the Levant Basin, SE Mediterranean

Internal deformation of the southeast Levant margin through continued activity of buried mass transport deposits

Occurrence and Genesis of Cold‐Seep Authigenic Carbonates from the South‐Eastern Mediterranean Sea

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