Contents of Vol. 42, 2019

Vol. 42, no 4, October 2019

• Carbonate reservoir rocks at giant oil and gas fields in SW Iran and the adjacent offshore: a review of stratigraphic occurrence and poro-perm characteristics
  B. Esrafili-Dizaji and H. Rahimpour-Bonab (University of Tehran) view abstract
• Reservoir quality evolution of Upper Carboniferous (Westphalian) tight gas sandstones, Lower Saxony Basin, NW Germany
  I. Becker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), B. Busch, B. Koehrer, D. Adelmann and C. Hilgers view abstract
• The Oligocene – Miocene Menilite Formation in the Ukrainian Carpathians: a world-class source rock
  J. F. Rauball (Montanuniversitaet Leoben, Austria), R. F. Sachsenhofer, A. Bechtel, S. Coric and R. Gratzer view abstract
• Thermogenic petroleum potential of the Nankai subduction zone, offshore SW Japan
  K. Shiraishi (JAMSTEC, Yokohama, Japan), Y. Yamada and T. Nibe view abstract
• Monitoring gas distribution and origin in the Culzean field, UK Central North Sea, using data from a continuous isotope logging tool and isotube and test samples
  H. I. Petersen (Total Upstream Denmark), P. Hillock, S. Milner, M. Pendlebury and D. Scarlett view abstract
• Cover image shows disharmonically folded shales and sandstones in the upper part of the Oligocene – Miocene Menilite Formation at an outcrop near Pniv village, Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine. Thick, organic-rich siliceous shales in the Menilite Formation are the principal source rocks for oilfields in the Ukrainian Outer Carpathians, and are the subject of the paper by Rauball et al. on pp. 393-416 of this issue. Photograph by Dr Tetiana Petrovska (Deproil).

Vol. 42, no 3, July 2019

• Petroleum geology of the Nogal Basin and surrounding area, northern Somalia, Part 2: Hydrocarbon potential
  M. Y. Ali (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi) and J. H. Lee view abstract
• Sedimentology, geochemistry and reservoir potential of sandstones in the Silurian Akkas Formation, western Iraq
  A. I. Al-Juboury (Mosul University, Iraq), J. P. Howard, G. Nichols, S. J. Vincent, C. Manning and B. P. Vautravers view abstract
• Constraining the timing and depositional conditions of the Maikop Formation within the Kura Basin, eastern Azerbaijan, through the application of Re-Os geochronology and chemostratigraphy
  A. M. Washburn (Brigham Young University, USA), S. M. Hudson, D. Selby, N. Abdullayev and N. Shiyanova view abstract
• Pore system quantification and characterization in volcanic rocks: A case study from the Lower Cretaceous Serra Geral Group, Paraná Basin, southern Brazil
  M. Becker (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), E. F. Lima, B. L. Waichel and I. F. Mantovani view abstract
• Pore pressure modelling in a compressional setting: A case study from Assam, NE India S. Dasgupta (Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad), R. Chatterjee, S. P. Mohanty and J. Alam view abstract
• Cover image shows pahoehoe basaltic lavas of the Lower Cretaceous Serra Geral Group exposed in a road cut near Santa Cruz do Sul – Herveiras in the Paraná Basin, southern Brazil. Pore types in these volcanic rocks are characterised by Becker et al. in the paper on pp. 301-318 of this issue using techniques including X-ray microtomography. Photo: M. Becker (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul).

Vol. 42, no 2, April 2019

• Burial, temperature and maturation history of Cretaceous source rocks in the NW Persian Gulf, offshore SW Iran: 3D basin modelling
  A. Baniasad (RWTH Aachen University), V Sachse, R. Littke and B. Soleimany view abstract
• Petroleum systems modelling in a fold-and-thrust belt setting: the inverted Cameros Basin, north-central Spain
  S. Omodeo-Salé (Univ. Complutense Madrid), R. Ondrak, J. Arribas, R. Mas, J. Guimerà and L. Martínez view abstract
• Biomarker geochemistry of crude oils and Neogene bituminous shales in the Yeniköy area, Eregli-Ulukisla basin, Central Anatolia, Turkey
  R. Kara-Gülbay (Karadeniz Technical University), S. Korkmaz, M. S. Erdoğan and G. Kadınkız view abstract
• Geochemistry of seep and produced oil samples from southern Cameroon
  C. M. Agyingi (University of Buea, Cameroon), P. A. Abanda, K. F. Fozao, O. A. Njoh, A. F. Epanty, N. C. Tangko, F. N. Kwangkam and E. Eseme view abstract
• Controls on fracture flow potential in a tight carbonate reservoir: Sayındere Formation (Campanian), west Adıyaman Basin, SE Turkey
  S. I. Ozkaya (Manama, Bahrain), T. Dölek, K. Yapan and B. Alper Durukan view abstract


• Cover image shows a field photograph of the southern Cameros Basin, north-central Spain, where post-rift sandstones of the Late Albian Utrillas Formation are exposed at the surface as a result of Alpine inversion. The sandstones, which crop out in the foreground of the main photo, are impregnated with bitumen as shown in the close-up views (thin-section width: approx. 5 mm). Petroleum systems modelling of the Cameros Basin is the subject of the paper by Omodeo-Salé et al. on pp. 145-172 of this issue. Photographs by José Arribas and Ramón Mas (Univ. Complutense Madrid)

Vol. 42, no 1, January 2019

• Dating and correlation of the Baluti Formation, Kurdistan, Iraq: Implications for the regional recognition of a Carnian “marker dolomite” and a review of the Triassic to Early Jurassic sequence stratigraphy of the Arabian Plate
  G. A. Lunn (PGA Ltd), S. Miller and A. Samarrai view abstract
• Hydrocarbon potential and palaeo-depositional environment of lacustrine source rocks: Middle Jurassic Shimengou Formation, northern Qaidam Basin, NW China
  Q. T. Meng (Jilin University), A. Bechtel, R. F. Sachsenhofer, Z. J. Liu, D. Gross, P. C. Sun, F. Hu, L. Li, K. B Wang, C. Xu, L. L. Chen and W. R. Zeng view abstract
• Characterization of Upper Palaeozoic organic-rich units in Svalbard: Implications for the petroleum systems of the Norwegian Barents Shelf
  J. B. Nicolaisen (University of Copenhagen), G. Elvebakk, J. Ahokas, J. A. Bojesen-Koefoed, S. Olaussen, J. Rinna, J.E. Skeie and L.Stemmerik view abstract
• Effects of micrite content on calcite cementation in an Upper Jurassic carbonate reservoir, eastern Saudi Arabia
  Shuo Zhang (Aramco Research Center-Houston) and Peng Lu view abstract
• Petroleum geology of the Nogal Basin and surrounding area, Northern Somalia: Part 1, Stratigraphy and tectonic evolution
  M.Y. Ali (Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi) and J. Lee view abstract


• Cover photograph shows steeply dipping shales and limestones of the Upper Triassic (Upper Carnian – Lower Norian) Baluti Formation (left and centre) and overlying dolostones of the Sarki Formation (top right) at outcrop in the north flank of the Jebel Gara Anticline, Kurdistan, North Iraq (36° 59’ 34.1”N, 43° 32’ 23.3”E). The Sarki – Baluti contact is around the level of the grassy patch in the gully on the right. The Baluti shales seal the Triassic petroleum system in a number of Kurdistan fields. Dating of the outcrop-defined Baluti Formation and its correlation to the subsurface provide insight into the Upper Triassic sequence stratigraphy of the Arabian Plate, as discussed in the paper by Lunn et al. on pp. 5-36 of this issue. Photograph by Ayad Nuri Faqi, Soran University.