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 k.oikonomopoulos@greekhydrocarbons.gr

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

Thank you!

HHRM S.A.Hellenic Hydrocarbon Resources Management S.A.

Athens, Greecewww.greekhydrocarbons.gr k.oikonomopoulos@greekhydrocarbons.gr