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Observed Gas and Gas Hydrate Accumulatıons Offshore of Zonguldak-Kozlu
H. Mert Küçük, Derman Dondurur, Günay Çifçi, Mustafa Ergün, Savaş Gürçay, Murat Er,
Özkan Özel, Melek Korkmaz
Dokuz Eylül University, Institute Marine Sciences and Technology, İzmir
Black Sea is known as consist of a basin with two part and largely sediment thickness. East and
west basins are divided by Andrussov and Archengelsky ridges and study area is located in the
western basin. Previous studies in the area point out to gas and gas hydrate accumulations from
continental slope to abyssal plain at west, central and east side of Black Sea. For this purpose,
multichannel seismic reflection, chirp and multibeam bathymetry data were collected at offshore
of Zonguldak – Kozlu region from shelf to abyssal plain of Black Sea in 2010. Preliminary results
show gas and gas hydrate accumulations and wide spread BSR reflections. BSR reflections are
clearly seen on migration sections with general processing stages after verification of common
offset sections of approximately 1600 km high resolution multichannel seismic reflection data. In
addition, It is known that Akçakoca-1 well which is near the study area produces gas considerably
and study area offers very high potential in terms of energy resources from continental slope to
abyssal plain.
Keywords: BSR Reflections, Gas Accumulations, Marine Seismic, Kozlu, Black Sea
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