Abstract
ABSTRACT The airborne gamma-ray spectrometry technique is newly practiced in Syria as an indirect approach for petroleum prospecting to detect structural traps favorable for possible hydrocarbon accumulations in Ar-Rassafeh Badyieh Area (Area-2). The thorium (Th) normalization technique is used in this approach to suppress regional geological influences. Three anomalous microseepage zones that are suitable as hydrocarbon occurrences were detected in Area-2 and identified by low residual potassium values and high uranium residual values relative to potassium values. The location of the first zone coincides with a productive hydrocarbon field, confirming the efficacy of the Th normalization approach with the microseepage model for detecting new probable hydrocarbon occurrences in Area-2.
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