9505 - Structural elements regarding hydrocarbon reserves

N. Lygeros
Translated from the Greek by Athina Kehagias

The study of A. Foscolos, E. Conophagos and A. Bruneton’s publication, allows for the emergence of structural elements which are of course related to the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone. In geology we know that the converging lithospheric plates accommodate hydrocarbon deposits. The presence of scaling and augmentational prism corrugation is connected with hydrocarbon reserves. Consequently, they constitute areas for research. The active mud flow volcanoes are associated with the existence of hydrocarbons. Consequently, they also constitute areas for research, because the geochemical analysis of the emitted methane bubbles indicate that their origin is thermogenic. Additionally, when we examine the proportions that exist between regions across the world, we realize that there are serious possibilities which have not been investigated as yet. Based on all these elements, the researchers indicate that the South Basin of Crete is equivalent to the Levantine Basin, which we are in actual fact well aware of, with Noble’s surveys in the EEZ’s of Israel and Cyprus. Nobody can insist that the African plate, the Eurasian plate and the Mediterranean ridge do not exist. And upon it, as Kopf, Mascle and Klaeschen point out, there’s an accumulation of a large volume of augmentational sediment which has one of the largest growth rate worldwide. So an obvious question remains to be answered, and that is why the investigations have not already begun in this area. Whereas, we are aware that there have been seismic records in the 1990s, but even more recently, between 2007 and 2009, as evidenced by Robinson’s map of the PGS company. By promoting the issue of the Greek EEZ, we discover unknown aspects in the field of of the political decisions of the past. This factor must however change. And this can occur through the establishment of our EEZ. We obtain the data, and we ought to utilize them strategically.