none 10.1144/petgeo2016-054 Geological Society of London Geological Society of London 1881 85203868 78679 2024072322135600094 10.1144 2024-07-24T07:33:28Z 2016-09-16T21:10:56Z 29 Petroleum Geoscience PG 1354-0793 2041-496X 10 14 2016 11 2016 22 4 Abdulaziz Nasser Al-Balushi Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science &amp; Engineering, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK Martin Neumaier Aachen Technology Centre, Schlumberger, Ritterstrasse 23, 52072 Aachen, Germany Alastair J. Fraser Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science &amp; Engineering, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK Christopher A-L. Jackson Basins Research Group (BRG), Department of Earth Science &amp; Engineering, Imperial College London, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BP, UK The offshore Levant Basin demonstrates one of the most phenomenal natural examples of a working petroleum system associated with a relatively rapid unloading and loading cycle caused by the Messinian salinity crisis (MSC). In this study, 2D basin and petroleum systems modelling suggests that the geologically instantaneous water unloading of approximately 2070 m, and subsequent rapid salt deposition and refill, impact the subsurface pore pressure and temperature in the underlying sediments. The pressure drop is modelled to be instantaneous, whereas the impact on temperature is more of a transient response. This has important consequences for the shallow sub-Messinian biogenic petroleum system, which is assumed to have experienced fluid brecciation associated with massive fluid escape events. Deeper Oligo-Miocene sediments are far less affected, thus indicating a ‘preservation window’ for biogenic gas accumulations, which host the recent discoveries (Tamar, Leviathan, Aphrodite). Hydrocarbon accumulations of a ‘bubblepoint oil’ composition are modelled to have experienced cap expansion during the drawdown, with the pressure drop being the primary control. This study suggests that seal-limited traps are expected to have undergone a catastrophic seal failure, whereas the impact of the MSC is modelled to be less destructive for size-limited and, particularly, charge-limited traps. 09 16 2016 11 2016 357 379 10.1144/petgeo2016-054 https://doi.org/10.15223/policy-002 10.1144/petgeo2016-054 https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/10.1144/petgeo2016-054 https://www.lyellcollection.org/doi/pdf/10.1144/petgeo2016-054 https://geoscienceworld.org/pg/article-lookup?doi=10.1144/petgeo2016-054 10.1111/j.1747-5457.1979.tb00626.x Al-Balushi A. Fraser A.J. Jackson C.A.-L. & Allen P.A. 2012. 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