Initial crustal collision between Africa and Eurasia in the middle Eocene – early Oligocene enclosed a semi‐restricted Paratethyan seaway of linked basins and platforms across a region stretching from the Eastern Alps to the South Caspian Sea. As the African Plate continued to advance north during the later Neogene, the seaway shrank into a series of more isolated basins separated by the rising Alpine – Carpathian – Caucasus fold‐thrust belts. Organic‐rich oil‐prone Paratethyan source rocks of middle Eocene (Kuma Formation and equivalents) and Oligocene – early Miocene (Maikop and Menilite Beds) ages, and more gas‐prone post‐orogenic mid‐upper Miocene shales, subsequently charged over 2500 accumulations across the region with combined recoverable reserves of 95 billion brl oil‐equivalent (B boe). These accumulations are clustered in discrete petroleum provinces, each with a distinct tectono‐stratigraphic architecture and comprised of one or more petroleum systems. The provinces can be grouped into five broad categories:

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巴勒斯坦地区的石油省

在始新世中期，非洲和欧亚大陆之间发生了最初的地壳碰撞-渐新世包围了从东阿尔卑斯山到南里海的整个区域的半限制性Paratethyan海道，这些海床和盆地连接在整个盆地上。随着非洲板块在后来的新近纪期间继续向北推进，海道缩小为一系列更加孤立的盆地，这些盆地被上升的阿尔卑斯山—喀尔巴阡山—高加索褶皱冲断带隔开。中始新世（Kuma组及等价物）和渐新世-中新世（Maikop和Menilite层）年龄有机质丰富，易生油的Paratethyan烃源岩，以及在中新世上中新世以来页岩的造山后中新世中晚期页岩气较多，随后充注了2500多次整个地区的可采储量合计为950亿桶油当量（B boe）。这些堆积物聚集在离散的石油省份，每个省份都有独特的构造地层构造，并由一个或多个石油系统组成。这些省可以分为五大类：