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- Title: Basin Analysis in Petroleum Exploration
- Author: Paul G Teleki
- Publisher: Springer
- Pages: 335
Basin analysis is a comprehensive approach to decipher the geological evolution of a basin by constructing the stratigraphic framework and facies relationships, by mapping and understanding the geological structures in light of their historical development, and by examining the physical and chemical properties of rocks and their sedimentological and petroleum attributes. The purpose of the analysis is to identify potential source rocks and reservoir rocks, and to evaluate the maturation, generation, migration, and entrapment of hydrocarbons in a sedimentary basin.
This book is a compendium of chapters reporting on the results of a basin analysis of the Bekes basin, a subbasin of the Pannonian Basin system in Hungary. The study, carried out in 1986-87, was conducted at the request of the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company (then called OKGT, and now MOL Ltd.) and the World Bank as part of a broader program designed to improve oil and gas exploration in Hungary. The work was accomplished by a joint effort of the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company and the U.S. Geological Survey.
The original evaluation of the Bekes basin contained infonnation on possible structural and stratigraphic targets, but for reasons of confidentiality, this infonnation is omitted in this volume.
The Bekes basin covers an area of about 4000 km2 in southeastern Hungary and continues eastward into Romania (see Fig. 2, Kovacs and Teleki, this volume). In Hungary, the basin is bounded on the north, west and south by buried basement highs composed of igneous and metamorphic rocks that range in age from Precambrian to Mesozoic. Seventeen oil and natural gas fields are associated with these peripheral basement highs. The thickness of Neogene and younger sedimentary deposits in the basin varies from 1000-2600 m along its periphery to as thick as 6500 m in central parts of the basin. The area has an average surface elevation of 85-90 m above sea level and is part of the Great Hungarian Plain. As this name implies, topographic relief is minor.