Whereas the vast majority of discovered hydrocarbon reserves in Iraq reside in Cretaceous
and Cenozoic reservoirs, numerous oil and gas fields have been discovered recently in …

Bulk property and geochemical analyses were performed on 15 crude oil samples collected
from the Early Cretaceous clastic reservoirs in the oilfields of the southern Mesopotamian …

A comprehensive marine biomarker record of green and purple sulfur bacteria (GSB and
PSB, respectively) is required to test whether anoxygenic photosynthesis represented a …

The Zagros orogenic belt is underlain by a complex faulted Precambrian basement. Major
fault trends originating in this basement have been invoked to explain large‐scale structural …

Abstract Middle Jurassic Sargelu Formation is an important oil-source rock in the Iraqi
Kurdistan oilfields, northern Zagros Fold Belt. The Sargelu source rock is characterised by …

Abstract Tithonian–Berriasian Chia Gara organic-rich rocks, located in Kurdistan (northern
Iraq), were analysed based on inorganic and organic geochemistry to define the origin, type …

The current study focuses on the organic geochemical and basin modeling of organic matter-
rich limestones and oil samples from the Ajeel Oilfield. The objective was to characterize the …

Sargelu Formation is one of the major petroleum source rocks in Iraq and the Middle East. In
an effort to build on the previous work and add new interpretations, this investigates selected …

The Shorish‐1 exploration well is located in Erbil Province in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, on
the outskirts of Erbil City near the dividing line between the Low Folded and High Folded …

Itaconic acid is an organic acid with a wide range of applications in the fields of polymer
chemistry, pharmacy, agriculture, textile industry, etc. A bio-synthetic process of itaconic acid …