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INTERNATIONAL GEOLOGY REVIEW
Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 277-320Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/00206814.2015.1065516
Keywords
oceanic anoxic events; black shale; Cretaceous; Tunisia
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- Primoil Tunisia
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Significant attention has been given, during the last decade, to Palaeozoic unconventional oil and gas shale in northern Africa where the productive Palaeozoic basins are located. New tentative strategies shed light on Mesozoic unconventional plays represented by Cretaceous shale reservoirs. In most petroleum systems the proven Cretaceous oceanic anoxic events (OAEs), represented mainly by the Fahdene and Bahloul Formations, played the main role in hydrocarbon generation with good distribution. Their deposition was restricted to the early Aptian (Bedoulian), the early/late Albian, and the Cenomanian-Turonian transition. Additional black shales have been detailed for the first time in Tunisia which relate to the Valanginian Weissert and late Hauterivian Faraoni events. Biostratigraphic and complete geochemical reviews have been undertaken from published papers and unpublished internal reports to better assess these important source intervals. These black shale levels, pertaining to OAEs, were deposited in almost deep marine environments during short-lived periods of anoxia (ca. 2Ma). In the course of this review, thickness, distribution, and maturity maps have been established for each level using well data from published sources.
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