Oil and gas exploration in Seferihisar Uplift (Western Turkey) containing an operable-size gold deposit: Geochemical evidence for the presence of a working petroleum system

Assessment of petroleum system of Arabian–Iranian Basin in Kuwait

“…They studied the burial and thermal evolution and hydrocarbon generation of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous source rock in Mesopotamian Foredeep Basin in Iraq, Kuwait and Iran. Also, Zeinalzadeh et al (2015), F. Abdullah and Connan (2002), and El Nady ( 2006), Hakimi et al (2018a), Hakimi et al (2019), Abdel Fattah et al (2019), andAbdel-Fattah et al (2020), and Ozdemir et al (2020aOzdemir et al ( , 2020bOzdemir et al ( , 2020cOzdemir et al ( and 2020d provide separate studies about the oil and gas reservoirs from Upper Jurassic to Tertiary.…”

Composition, impacts, and removal of liquid petroleum waste through bioremediation as an alternative clean-up technology: A review

“…It is well understood that during exploration of crude oil, a huge amount of petroleum waste is generated, which shows the characteristics and composition of source rocks ( Hu et al., 2013 ; Ozdemir et al., 2020 ). The chemical characteristic of petroleum is always similar to crude oil and somewhat to the source rocks which they are derived from.…”

Mature petroleum hydrocarbons contamination in surface and subsurface waters of Kızılırmak Graben (Central Anatolia, Turkey): Geochemical evidence for a working petroleum system associated with a possible salt diapir

“…There are a lot of studies regarding the methods and field applications of gravity and aeromagnetic data for use in oil and gas exploration (Griffin, 1949;Nettleton, 1976;Geist et al, 1987;Lyatsky et al, 1992;Gadirov, 1994;Piskarev and Tchernyshev, 1997;Pašteka, 2000;Aydın, 1997Aydın, , 2005Gadirov and Eppelbaum, 2012;Ivakhnenko et al, 2015;Satyana, 2015;Eke and Okeke, 2016;Stephen and Iduma, 2018;Gadirov et al, 2018;Ozdemir, 2019a-c;Ozdemir et al, 2020). Analysis of gravity and magnetic anomalies has been a permanent component of hydrocarbon exploration and discovery in West Siberia for half a century (Piskarev and Tchernyshev, 1997).…”

“…Moreover, Kreuzer et al (2018) have mentioned that the faults in petroliferous basins make the transportation of hydrocarbon-rich brines to aquifer formations above source rocks easy by influencing the geochemistry of shallow groundwaters and cause a hydrocarbon enrichment in these waters. On the other hand, in recent times, TPH in water analysis has started to be utilized in petroleum exploration, which allows the determination of hydrocarbon-rich waters and organic geochemical properties in basins/regions where source rocks are not exposed at the surface as outcrops (covered basins) or has been exhausted (depleted or spent) (Ozdemir 2019a-c;Karataş et al, 2019;Palabiyik et al, 2019Palabiyik et al, , 2020Palabiyik and Ozdemir, 2020;Ozdemir et al, 2020). Furthermore, in recent studies, it has been come into existence that all organic geochemical analyses conducted on source rock and gas samples can also be applied to hydrocarbon-rich surface and subsurface waters determined by TPH in water analysis and that the same analysis and interpretation results for the same basins/regions have been reached (Fig.…”

“…width of the gravity anomaly, Di: Depth corresponding to the gravity anomaly value, Do: Depth obtained from the flat-plate formula, D: Maximum depth.3.4. Conceptual Occurrence, Migration, and TrappingModel of Hydrocarbons in the Investigation AreaOzdemir (2019a, b),Ozdemir and Palabiyik (2019a, b) andOzdemir et al (2020) have mentioned that petroleum source rocks are formed in the mid-ocean ridges and the continental rifts (spreading centers). Hence, Hasandağı, Kızılırmak, and Keçikalesi volcanisms accompanying the extensional regime in the study area, possibly in the Lower (?)…”