Offshore South of Cretenew ideas, new opportunities
Kostis Oikonomopoulos
Georgios Makrodimitras
Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A.
HHRM S.A.Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A.
Athens, Greecewww.greekhydrocarbons.gr [email protected]
AAPG Event: 15th-16th March 2018, Granada – GTW Series
Mediterranean Ridge - Backstop
• Narrower in the central part
• Less Messinian evaporites in the central part
• Change of fault direction along MR strike
• Thickness in eastern part may be greater due to Nile delta
• Backthrusted by the MR
• Compressional and transtensional tectonics
• Pre-Apulian or stacked Hellenic Nappes
Mud volcanoes @ MR-Backstop contact
Pre-Messinian mountain chains
Compressional tectonics Transtensional/Transpressional tectonics
Messinian evaporites
Thrust-related anticline structures
Calciturbidites (?)
Backstop area
Carbonate build-upsFault blocks
LegendSeabedTop Messinian Evaporites
Base Messinian Evaporites
Top Carbonates (Cretaceous?)
Pull-apart basin play
Pull-apart basins due tooblique convergence ofAfrica and Eurasia plates
Anticlinal structure
Flat spot (?)
Gas migration (?)
Neogene sediments
Shales
Structural map
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HHRM S.A.Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A.
Athens, Greecewww.greekhydrocarbons.gr [email protected]