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Wgłębna budowa Karpat w strefie sigmoidy przemyskiej: interpretacja profili sejsmicznych i ocena prognoz naftowych
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2008) Kuśmierek, Jan; Baran, Urszula
The authors expose some new aspects of interpretation of the subsurface tectonics of flysch and molasse covers and their autochthonous basement in connection with assessment of prospects for hydrocarbon discoveries in the zone of the Przemyśl Sigmoid (PS). They are based on drilling results and geological interpretation of seismic sections which were reprocessed with application of a methodology presented in another publication. Interpretation results incline towards an opinion that the northern depositional extent of flysch sediments was oblique to overthrusts of the Marginal Group units. In this context, it can be accepted that before the deposition of the molasses that build up the Stebnik Nappe the flysch deposits had filled longitudinal depressions of the platform slope and the post-erosional patches had been detached and thrust together with Miocene sediments. Such a solution corresponds with views on pinching-out of deep-seated folds of the Boryslav-Pokutya Unit along PS. In the light of these results and insignificant thermal transformation of organic matter, prospects for hydrocarbon discoveries in the NE Polish Carpathians are not optimistic. Potential structural traps were preserved only in the autochthonous Miocene series overlain by the sealing overburden of the allochthonous covers. Discovery of new gas fields in the traps will depend mostly on favourable reservoir properties, particularly in zones of pinching-out of sandy horizons of the autochthonous series against the basement highs or in zones of their screening by thrust planes.