Abstract
Two oil seep samples were collected from outcropping Jurassic Ayad Salt Dome of Shabwah depression. The results of this study have been used to provide information of the origin of the oil seeps and the type of organic matter and maturity of their potential source rock in the basin. Although these are surface oil seeps, their high saturated hydrocarbon content indicates that they are non-degraded oils, probably due to an arid environment of the thick salt sediments. The analyzed oil seep samples are characterized by full complement of n-alkanes, a very high component of phytane, relatively low CPIs of less than unity, and an unusually high content of aliphatic HCs. These features suggest that the analyzed oil seeps are generated from an algal marine organic matter in the source rock that deposited under highly anoxic hypersaline conditions and indicate a moderately low level of maturity. The geochemical characteristics of the analyzed oil seeps in this study are similar and consistent with the source rock characteristics of the Safer Member in the Sabatayn Basin.
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