Nazim AbdullayevAzerbaijan National Academy of Sciences | ANAS · Institute
Nazim Abdullayev
PhD
Integrative studies of the South Caspian Basin including basin analysis - post-doctorate research
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October 1999 - present
Education
May 2013 - October 2015
June 1997 - June 1999
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The South Caspian Basin, Lower and Middle Kura Basins, onshore Azerbaijan, and
Georgia Upper Kura Basin are a genetically linked basin system created in a Mesozoic extensional setting with a complex Cenozoic sediment fill history. Delineating these basins shed new light on understanding the complex geodynamic history of the region between the Black...
Analyzing seismic data, particularly when engaging in attribute analysis and spectral decomposition is time-consuming and requires human resources involvement. Usually, interpreters manually select and blend frequencies to identify geological patterns in seismic data. To do a proper analysis, hundreds of combinations should be generated, which intr...
The South Caspian Basin is a deep-water basin containing one of the thickest accumulated sedimentary sequences on the Earth, with up to 25 km of sediments, overlying thin oceanic
crust. To understand the nature of the South Caspian Basin we build model of the tectonic motion
of the South Caspian Basin, an enigmatic aseismic “block” within the Arabi...
The South Caspian Basin is a deep-water basin containing one of the thickest accumulated sedimentary sequences on earth, with up to 25 km of sediments, overlying thin oceanic crust. To understand the nature of South Caspian Basin we build model of the tectonic motion of the South Caspian Basin, an enigmatic aseismic
“block” within the Arabia-Eurasi...
South Caspian and Upper Kura Basins are a genetically linked system created in a Mesozoic extensional setting with a complex Cenozoic sediment fill history. This study presents new maps delineating these basins, and an interpretation of the regional geodynamic history. Over 150 onshore and offshore borehole temperature measurements, geothermal grad...
The article gives a brief overview of the sedimentary cover of the Earth and summarizes volumes and mass of sediments contained in the Earth sedimentary layer (stratisphere). Using available data authors show unique nature of the South Caspian Basin and other rapidly subsiding basins with large amount of sediments and attenuated crust. Sedimentary,...
The paper aims to justify the thickness of sedimentary cover along the aquatory of South Caspian basin and Azerbaijan onshore (including South and Middle Kur basin and Yevlakh-Aghjabedy downfall), the cover thickness of crystalline basement, specifying its structural position and key tectonic borders, as well as the confirmation of some issues on g...
The South Caspian Basin has been one of the world's most prolific petroleum provinces since the 19th Century. However, despite the large number of discovered petroleum accumulations, the source rock sequence has not been penetrated by the drill in the offshore basin and is therefore poorly defined. In this paper, geochemistry together with broad es...
An SEG workshop titled, “Geophysical inputs to static and dynamic model building” was recently held in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was developed and supported by the SEG Eurasia Regional Advisory Committee. The workshop was conducted during the SPE Annual Caspian Technical Conference and was divided into three themes: integration of geophysical products,...
This work gives a overview of the sedimentary cover of the Earth and summarizes volumes and mass of sediments contained in the Earth sedimentary layer (stratisphere) while pointing out special nature of the South Caspian Basin as a unique sedimentary sink amongst other basins of the world. Using available data authors show that anomalies of the Sou...
Paper gives a brief overview of the sedimentary cover of the Earth and summarizes volumes of sediments and mass contained in the Earth Sedimentary layer (stratisphere). Using available data author shows unique nature of the South Caspian Basin and other rapidly subsiding basins with attenuated crust. Sedimentary, crustal and lithospheric thickness...
Paper gives a brief overview of the sedimentary cover of the Earth and summarizes volumes of sediments and mass contained in the Earth Sedimentary layer (so called stratisphere). Using publically available data author also shows unique nature of the South Caspian Basin and demonstrates number of other rapidly subsiding basins that have an attenuate...
Analysis of temperature outputs from 1D burial histories and calibration of heatflow data and geothermal gradient is a useful tool in understanding crustal structure of a basin where accurate measurements of such parameters are limited. We attempted to use existing temperature observations from well data to predict depth to basement and crustal thi...
The Oligocene – Miocene Maikop Formation is the key source rock in the South Caspian and Kura Basins. The Maikop is composed of a thick (up to 3 km) succession of clay‐rich mudstones containing up to 15% total organic carbon (TOC). Despite decades of study, the mudstones often lack precise age control – Maikop strata rarely contain diagnostic micro...
We demonstrate a recent application of high resolution Full-waveform inversion in the exploration setting. Supported by quality Ocean-bottom node data, we used successive higher frequency data up to imaging frequencies in the FWI workflow. The resulting FWI product has rich details of the subsurface and the appearance of an image. The FWI result ha...
The Oligocene – Miocene Maikop Series is a world‐class source interval and is the most important source rock for the petroleum systems of the South Caspian Basin and surrounding region. The Maikop is a thick (up to 3 km) succession of silty mudstones with intervals of high organic carbon content. However correlation of organic‐rich intervals within...
We used detrital zircon U/Pb geochronology and apatite (U–Th–Sm)/He thermochronology to better constrain depositional ages and sedimentation rates for the Pliocene Productive Series in Azerbaijan. U/Pb analysis of 1379 detrital zircon grains and (U–Th–Sm)/He analysis of 57 apatite grains – from Kirmaky Valley and Yasamal Valley onshore sections, Ab...
The death of Yusif Shikhaliyev on 12 September 2017 at the peak of his activity is a huge loss to the Azerbaijani geophysical community. For many years, Shikhaliyev was an active participant in local geophysics community life, an ambassador for Azerbaijani geophysics abroad, and a friend to SEG.
This study summarizes the subsidence history and aspects of the geodynamic evolution of the South Caspian Basin based on the integration of geophysical observations, and subsidence and gravity modelling on selected two-dimensional (2D) profiles. This analysis implies the presence of an attenuated ‘oceanic-type’ crust in the northern portion of the...
Data collected over the past 15 years from exploration, appraisal and production in the offshore South Caspian Sea validates the previously developed model of lateral fluid flow from the overpressured basin center to the basin margins within the sandstone aquifers of the Pliocene Productive Series. Specifically, new data confirm the predictions tha...
This study summarises subsidence history and aspects of geodynamic evolution of the South Caspian Basin based on integrated analysis of flexural backstripping, forward lithosperic modelling and 2D gravity profile modelling of the selected regional geoseismic profiles across the South Caspian Basin (SCB). Resulting analysis, constrained by ultradeep...
The South Caspian Basin (SCB) has a long history of hydrocarbon production (Fig. 1). In the last decade the SCB has once again achieved global prominence due to substantial export of oil and gas to world markets through a number of major upstream and midstream projects: 1) Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli oil development, 2) Baku-Tiblisi-Ceynan oil pipeline,...
The South Caspian Basin represents an extremely young petroleum system in which over 8 kilometres of sediment have been deposited in the past 6-10 million years. Within the last 1-2 million years up to 3 kilometres sediment were deposited. These high deposition rates pushed the sedimentary section into significant disequilibrium with respect to the...
The South Caspian Basin is believed to contain more than 20 km of Mesozoic and Tertiary sediments deposited on oceanic or thinned continental crust. Mesozoic, Palaeogene and Oligo-Miocene sediments have not been penetrated within the South Caspian Basin itself but are exposed onshore in the basin margins. The Pliocene–Recent sequence has been mappe...
T he South Caspian Basin represents an extremely young petroleum system in which more than 26,000 ft (8 km) of sediment has been deposited in the past 6-10 million years, with up to 10,000 ft (3 km) in the last 1-2 million years. The high rates of deposition have pushed the sedimentary section into significant disequilibrium with respect to tempera...
More than 10,000 km of seismic data were used for seismic stratigraphic analysis and differentiation of major depositional environments of Upper Pliocene and Quaternary strata in the central deepwater and eastern parts of the South Caspian Basin (SCB). The study shows that the conventional sequence stratigraphy concept works well in the South Caspi...
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Ronov AB (1993) Stratisfera – Ili Osadochnaya Obolochka Zemli (Kolichestvennoe Issledovanie). In: Yaroshevskii AA (ed) Nauka, Moscow, USSR: 1–144
What are sedimentation rates in Central Asian/ Chinese Basins - specifically Tarim, Junggar and others. What is rate of their increase throughout Cenozoic?
I am interested in the comparison of historical sedimentation rates as well as mass accumulation rates in sedimentary basins in Quaternary, Pliocene and Miocene. Can anyone supply me with reference? Table would be nice. I suspect that Bengal Fan, Foaz Amazonas, some interior basins are high on the list? I searched but could not find a reference anywhere.
