CHARACTERİSTİCS OF STRUCTURAL-TECTONİC DEVELOPMENT OF KUROVDAG-BABAZANAN-NEFTCHALA UPLİFTS IN PONT-QUATERNARY PERİOD

The Lower Kura depression is one of the largest oil and gas producers and one of the most promising regions in terms of oil and gas in the onshore territory of Azerbaijan. Rich oil and gas deposits have been found here in the Pliocene sediments and they are being developed. Industrially important oil and gas accumulations mainly related with the upper sandy I-VIII horizons of the Productive series. In addition, significant oil and gas flows were obtained from wells in separate areas of the region, for example, Qarabagli, Kursanga, Pirsahat, Kurovdag, Neftchala, Babazanan, from wells from the lower XVII-XX horizons of the PS.
It should be noted that structural-tectonic, lithofacies, paleotectonic, geochemical, hydrogeological, etc. to investigate the factors and, as a result, determine the zones of oil production and oil and gas accumulation are important issues.
Prospective anticlinal structures have been identified as a result of geological-geophysical research conducted in recent years in the Lower Kura depression. For this reason, lithostratigraphic, lithological and paleogeographic studies of the PS were conducted based on new factual materials in the region. Paleoprofiles of the Kurovdag, Babazanan, and Neftchala uplifts were compiled based on the deep well materials. The features of structural-tectonic development of the Kurovdag-Babazanan-Neftchala uplifts in the Pontian-Quaternary period were investigated.
As is known, the paleoanalysis of any area based on paleoconstructions is one of the deepest structural-tectonic analyzes in the study of its geological structure and oil-gas prospects. From this point of view, we have studied the features of structural-tectonic development in the Pontian-Quaternary period stratigraphic interval by establishing a series of paleoprofiles based on transverse profiles along the Kurovdag, Babazanan and Neftchala uplifts.
Keywords: oil and gas bearing, paleoprofiles, structural-tectonic development, structure, depression, anticlinal zones, uplifts, sedimentation rate, geodynamic activity, oil-gas accumulation zones.