Preface

Recently Black Sea has been a target for petroleum exploration with many long and expensive wells opened by BP, Petrobras and Exxon in conjunction with the Turkish Petroleum Corporation on the Turkish sector of the Black Sea. Unfortunately most of these wells have been dry and/or have missed the expected target. The main reason for this up to now rather unsuccesful exploration effort is that the stratigraphy, age, lithology and facies of the sequences in the offshore Black Sea basin is poorly known and poorly understood