North Caspian
The North (or Pri) Caspian includes the Kashagan and Tengiz fields, both ranked within the ten largest oil fields ever discovered, making the basin one of the most important regions in Asia for production and exploration for years to come. Late Palaeozoic carbonate reservoirs form part of an enormously thick succession, deposited over a basement with disputed age and origin. Permian and Mesozoic clastic strata also form reservoirs within the upper part of the basin stratigraphy, in a succession strongly affected by salt tectonics.
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Most Recent Reports
- Detrital zircon U-Pb age data from Jurassic to Cretaceous sediments of the greater Caspian region: Insights into sediment source areas and dispersal patterns
- Defining source area signatures in the greater Middle and North Caspian regions
- The Palaeozoic stratigraphy of the Pricaspian Basin, and the Southern and Middle Urals
- Preliminary report of 1998 fieldwork in the Karatau, Kazakhstan
- Carbonate reservoirs of the Pri-Caspian Basin