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Graham Banks, PhD Petroleum Systems Elements and Structural geology in Northern Iraq University of Calgary seminar, January 20, 2012 x3 vertical exaggeration 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This work was a team effort Success is due to the wisdom, enthusiasm and professionalism of our team of WZ geologists, security and logistics staff, and the people of Kurdistan I thank WZ management and colleagues for support and permission to present this work AIMS AND CONTENTS 3 Principal aims To give an overview of hydrocarbon exploration in Kurdistan Demonstrate a few tools used in Kurdistan for New Ventures studies Update published definitions of Zagros-Taurus Structural domains Location and regional tectonics Summary of current hydrocarbon exploration Summary of Petroleum Systems Tectonostratigraphic evolution Main challenges to exploration Review of Structural domains of the orogenic belt Conclusions LOCATION AND REGIONAL TECTONICS 4 Kurdistan region of northern Iraq Present-day collision and rotation of Arabian

Graham Banks, PhD Petroleum Systems Elements and Structural Geology in Northern Iraq University of Calgary seminar, January 20, 2012 x3 vertical exaggeration

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