Front
Matter
Chapter
1
Petroleum Exploration in a World without Walls:
The Function of Science and Technology
Arthur R. Green
Chapter
2
The World of Technology: Emerging Technology and
Implications for the Greater Caspian Region
Ganesh Thakur
Chapter
3
Assessment of the Greater Caspian Region Petroleum
Reserves and Their Role in World Energy
Andrei V. Belopolsky, Manik Talwani
Chapter
4
Hydrocarbon Habitat in the Caucasus Petroleum
Province
Mike D. Simmons
Chapter
5
Regional Tectonics and Evolution of the Greater
Caspian Region
A. M. Celal Sengor, Boris A. Natalin
Chapter
6
Tectonic Evolution Models for the Black Sea
Aral. I. Okay, Naci Görür
Chapter
7
Geodynamic Evolution of the South Caspian Basin
Jan Golonka
Chapter
8
Gravity Modeling and Its Implications to the Tectonics
of the South Caspian Basin
James W. Granath, K. A. Soofi, O. W. Baganz, E.
Bagirov
Chapter
9
Deep Seismic Exploration of the South Caspian
Basin: Lithosphere-Scale Imaging of the World's
Deepest Basin
James H. Knapp, Camelia C. D. Knapp, John A. Connor,
John H. McBride, Mike D. Simmons
Chapter
10
Regional Evaluation of Source Rock Quality in
Azerbaijan from the Geochemistry of Organic-rich
Rocks in Mud-volcano Ejecta
Gary H. Isaksen, Adil Aliyev, Scott A. Barboza,
David Puls, Ibrahim Guliyev
Chapter
11
Miocene to Quaternary Sequence Stratigraphy of
the South and Central Caspian Basins
Vitor Abreu, Dag Nummedal
Chapter
12
Architecture Variability in the Pereriva and Balakhany
Suites of the Neogene Productive Series, Azerbaijan:
Implications for Reservoir Quality
D. J. Hinds, M. D. Simmons, M. B. Allen, E. Aliyeva
Chapter
13
The Petroleum Geology of Western Turkmenistan:
The Gograndag-Okarem Province
Max A. Torres
Chapter
14
Controls on Hydrogen Sulfide Formation in a Jurassic
Carbonate Play, Turkmenistan
Gary H. Isaksen, Mukhammetnur Khalylov
Chapter
15
Precaspian and South Caspian Basins: Subsidence
Evolution of Two Superdeep Basins
Marie-Françoise Brunet, Andrei V. Ershov,
Yury A. Volozh, Maxim V. Korotaev, Mikhail P.
Antipov, Jean-Paul Cadet
Chapter
16
Overview of the North Caspian Basin
G. F. Ulmishek
Chapter
17
Devonian and Carboniferous Carbonate Platform
Facies in the Bolshoi Karatau, Southern Kazakhstan:
Outcrop Analogs for Coeval Carbonate Oil and Gas
Fields in the North Caspian Basin
H. E. Cook, V. G. Zhemchuzhnikov, W. G. Zempolich,
P. J. Lehmann, D. V. Alexeiev, V. Ya. Zhaimina,
A. YE. Zorin
Chapter
18
Geochemical Evidence for Two Stages of Hydrocarbon
Emplacement and the Origin of Solid Bitumen in
the Giant Tengiz Field, Kazakhstan
J. L. Warner, D. K. Baskin, R. J. Hwang, R. M.
K. Carlson, M. E. Clark
