Chapter 6
New Insights into the Black Sea Basin,
in the Light of the Reprocessing of Vintage
Regional Seismic Data
Ioan Munteanu, Paolo Diviacco, Chiara Sauli, Corneliu Dinu, Mihai Burca ˘,
Nicolae Panin, and Giuseppe Brancatelli
Abstract Any petroleum exploration or regional model construction need a
detailed understanding of the geologic evolution of the basin under consideration.
This is possible only through a careful regional scale interpretation of the data
available. The prolongation of any geological model from a relatively well to a less
constrained area is always challenging. This is the case of the Western Black Sea
Basin where the stratigraphic correlation from the shelf to deep water is not
straightforward. So far this was in part due to the fact that the backbone of any
regional interpretation in the Black Sea have been the OGS and DSS lines acquired
in 70s that were available as paper sections only. The acquisition and publication of
the new regional industry lines, driven by the new deep water hydrocarbon exploration, eased and improved the geological interpretation of this area.
In the light of the results emerging from the availability of the new data, a
revision of the vintage data was considered advisable. It is known, in fact, that the
reprocessing of vintage seismic data that takes advantage of new and modern
processing techniques can be a useful tool to unlock the potential of such data.
This is the case of the OGS seismic lines acquired in the Black Sea Basin during the
1975 campaign. The reprocessed lines have been integrated with published regional
I. Munteanu (*)
Repsol Exploration, Mendez Alvaro 44, 28045 Madrid, Spain
e-mail: ioan.munteanu@gmail.com
P. Diviacco • C. Sauli • M. Burca ˘ • G. Brancatelli
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Borgo grotto Gigante 42/c,
34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy
e-mail: pdiviacco@inogs.it
C. Dinu
Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, 6 T. Vuia St., 020956 Bucharest,
Romania
N. Panin
National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology, 23–25 D. Onciu St., 024053 Bucharest,
Romania
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
C.W. Finkl, C. Makowski (eds.), Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences, Coastal
Research Library 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_6
91
New Insights into the Black Sea Basin,
in the Light of the Reprocessing of Vintage
Regional Seismic Data
Ioan Munteanu, Paolo Diviacco, Chiara Sauli, Corneliu Dinu, Mihai Burca ˘,
Nicolae Panin, and Giuseppe Brancatelli
Abstract Any petroleum exploration or regional model construction need a
detailed understanding of the geologic evolution of the basin under consideration.
This is possible only through a careful regional scale interpretation of the data
available. The prolongation of any geological model from a relatively well to a less
constrained area is always challenging. This is the case of the Western Black Sea
Basin where the stratigraphic correlation from the shelf to deep water is not
straightforward. So far this was in part due to the fact that the backbone of any
regional interpretation in the Black Sea have been the OGS and DSS lines acquired
in 70s that were available as paper sections only. The acquisition and publication of
the new regional industry lines, driven by the new deep water hydrocarbon exploration, eased and improved the geological interpretation of this area.
In the light of the results emerging from the availability of the new data, a
revision of the vintage data was considered advisable. It is known, in fact, that the
reprocessing of vintage seismic data that takes advantage of new and modern
processing techniques can be a useful tool to unlock the potential of such data.
This is the case of the OGS seismic lines acquired in the Black Sea Basin during the
1975 campaign. The reprocessed lines have been integrated with published regional
I. Munteanu (*)
Repsol Exploration, Mendez Alvaro 44, 28045 Madrid, Spain
e-mail: ioan.munteanu@gmail.com
P. Diviacco • C. Sauli • M. Burca ˘ • G. Brancatelli
Istituto Nazionale di Oceanografia e di Geofisica Sperimentale, Borgo grotto Gigante 42/c,
34010 Sgonico, Trieste, Italy
e-mail: pdiviacco@inogs.it
C. Dinu
Faculty of Geology and Geophysics, University of Bucharest, 6 T. Vuia St., 020956 Bucharest,
Romania
N. Panin
National Institute of Marine Geology and Geoecology, 23–25 D. Onciu St., 024053 Bucharest,
Romania
© Springer International Publishing AG 2018
C.W. Finkl, C. Makowski (eds.), Diversity in Coastal Marine Sciences, Coastal
Research Library 23, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-57577-3_6
91