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 estimates of in‐place volumes of petroleum fluids, onshore outcrop data and basin modelling have been used to place constraints on the source rock description.

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金刚石和盆地模拟揭示了世界上最深的石油系统之一，南卡皮盆地，阿塞拜疆

自19世纪以来，南里海盆地一直是世界上石油最多产的省份之一。然而，尽管发现了大量的石油聚集，但源岩层序并未被海上盆地的钻探穿透，因此定义不清。在本文中，地球化学以及对石油流体的就地体积的广泛估计，陆上露头数据和盆地模型已被用来对烃源岩描述施加约束。