Day 1 - 11th September
Arrival at the ANAS-Guest House
Address: street Mirali Gashgaya, house 36, AZ1007 Baku, Azerbaijan
Phone:+994 50 722 23 32 GPS coordinates: N 040° 23.564, E 49° 50.572
Welcoming ice breaker and introduction of participants.
Day 2 - 12th September
Lectures session at the Oil and Gas Institute
Address: street Fikret Amirov, house 9, AZ1000 Baku, Azerbaijan
Day 3 - 13th September
Field work - "From source to surface: source rocks, reservoir rocks and surface gas seepages"
Departure from ANAS guest house at 9 am. Maikopian source rock outcrop: introduction to petroleum systems: overview of source rocks localities, reservoir outcrops and surface gas manifestations.
The Pirekeshkyul locality sits 45 km west from Baku city, towards the Shamakha-Gobustan direction. In this area crops out the Maikopian Fm.: the organic-rich source rock extending over a large area of the Caspian and Black Sea and lies the Pirekeshkyul MV. Reservoir outcrop: The Kirmaki Valley, located nearby Yanar Dag 70 km east of Pirekeshkyul provides excellent outcrops of the sandstone productive series. Eternal fire (Yanar Dag): example of surface manifestation of gas seepage.
Day 4 - 14th September
Field work - Dashgil mud volcano
Moving 6.8 km west from the coast line of Cape Alyat, lies Dashgil MV whose crater is aligned with Bakhar and Bakhar Satellite MVs. Dashgil hosts all the manifestations of surface degassing features including gryphons, seeping pools, salsa lakes, sinter cone structures and diffused miniseepage. Various sampling and mapping techniques will be discussed.
Day 5 - 15th September
Field work - Mud volcanoes morphologies
Various types of mud volcanoes will be visited to compare their structures and morphologies. Among these Bakhar MV (multicrater), Bakhar satellite MV (impact crater-like), Koturdag MV (growing diapir-like extrusion). Eruptive mechanisms and genesis of mud vocanoes will be disccussed.
Day 6 - 16th September
Field work - Mud volcanism and petroleum systems
Azerbaijan is one of the countries where the intimate connection between mud volcanism and petroleum systems is more obvious. Lokbatan MV is one of the most active volcanoes in Azerbaijan with frequent eruptions reoccurring every ca. 5 years. Lokbatan is surrounded by dozens of productions oil wells highlighting that mud volcanism and hydrocarbon migration are usually coinnected.
The location of MVs in petroliferous basins, along anticline axes, strike slips and normal faults, and fault-related folds will be discussed.
Besides Lokbatan, the Lokbatan-Puta anticlinal belt that curves towards the NW, hosts also other MVs (e.g. Shongar, Akhtarma Putinskaya, Kushkhana) that will be viisted. their location and geological context will e discussed.
Day 7 - 17th September
End of workshop, departure/excursion