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Journal of Petroleum Geology

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Journal of Petroleum Geology, vol. 19(2), April 1996, pp. 129-160
©Copyright 1996. Scientific Press, U.K. All rights reserved.

THE HYDROCARBON GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN OFFSHORE MALTA AND SURROUNDING REGIONS

W. F. Bishop* and G. Debono**

Studies of more than 10, 000 km of geophysical data from an area situated 45 km south of Malta, supported by stratigraphic projections from wells in offshore Sicily, Tunisia and Libya, indicate facies different from the continuous carbonate sequence encountered in wells on the Malta Platform. Geologic structures in the study area range from a broad anticlinal high to complex horst-and-graben systems that are mostly of post-Miocene age. One graben is believed to be an Early Mesozoic rift associated with break-up of Gondwana, and may contain deep-water Triassic-Jurassic strata similar to those of the Ragusa Basin in SE Sicily.

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