Aspects of Petroleum Potential in Albania 

Bardhosh Seitaj, and Irakli Prifti 

Faculry of Geology and Mining, Tirana, Albania

Abstract: It is known the world rivalery in ensuring oil concessions in Albania during thirties of this centenary. By the end of the 1943 year in Albania, the Kucova and Patosi oil fields were in exploitation activity respectively with 915 production wells and a total production about 470 ton (2956 barrels) per day and 50 production wells with 160 ton (1006 barrels) per day in later period, as a result of the geological and geophysical studies new oil fields were discovered and put under exploitatin in known and new targets as well. From their putting under exploitation, it was ensured a production increase which reached its maximum in 1974 with a total of 2.240 ton (14 million barrels). Based on the geochemical studies, it has been concluded that oil is generated from source rocks of Ionian zone, mainly Triassic-Jurassic levels. Oil reserves in sandstone reservoirs have been formed as a result of migration from carbonate section of the Ionian zone (migrated from eroded surfaces of carbonate section). Discovered fields with their reservoir parameters (especially porosity and permeability) as well as with the exploitation parameters applied to them up to now contain huge reserves for increasing production in both sandy and limestone reservoirs. In this conditions new technology and the enhancing methods can be successfully applied to them. In this paper we did not include the natural gasfields in the Miocene-Pliocen molase section of Adriatic depression. 

Key words: source rocks, reservoirs, seal rocks, hydrocarbon generation, oiltraps