TECHNOLOGY OF SATELLITE AND PHOTO IMAGES FREQUENCY-RESONANCE PROCESSING: RESULTS OF TESTING AT THREE LARGE EXPLORATION BLOCKS AND WELL DRILLING SITES ON THE LEBANON AND ISRAEL OFFSHORE

Abstract

The results of testing the super-mobile direct-prospecting technology of satellite images frequency-resonance processing and decoding at the prospecting Block 4 and Block 9 on Lebanon offshore and Leviathan gas field and Block 23 on Israel offshore are analyzed. Experimental researches of a reconnaissance nature were carried out with the aim of demonstrating the performance, information content and efficiency of direct-prospecting methods when exploration works for oil and gas carrying out. The results of the reconnaissance studies carried out within Block 4 on the Lebanon offshore showed that the probability of commercial fluid inflows obtaining in the drilled well is close to zero. This forecast was confirmed by the results of well drilling! The results of experimental reconnaissance studies, conducted promptly in 2020 within the Block 9 on Lebanon offshore, allow us to conclude that drilled exploratory wells for oil and gas will be dry. During additional processing of Block 9satellite image on February 3, 2023 using an improved method of instrumental measurements at different depths in the range of 0–10000 m, signals at the frequencies of oil, gas condensate and gas are not recorded during three minutes for each component! These results were also confirmed during well drilling! During the frequency-resonance processing of a satellite image over a known Leviathan gas field, responses at the frequencies of oil, condensate and gas were recorded. This circumstance testifies in favor of the reliability of the conclusions made earlier about the results of drilling the prospecting wells within Block 4 and Block 9 on Lebanon offshore. The results of reconnaissance surveying with direct-prospecting methods using show that Hercules structural uplift within the Block 23 location on Israel offshore is formed by a volcanic complex, filled with siliceous rocks. In the contours of volcanoes of this type, conditions for the hydrocarbon’s synthesis at the boundary of 57 km are not created. Drilling exploratory wells on this structure and within another parts of Block 23 is impractical. The paper presents also a brief description of projects for the eastern Mediterranean offshore territory surveying in the reconnaissance mode in order to identify promising areas and sites for oil, gas, natural hydrogen detailed prospecting. For these projects practical implementation, the satellite images of the eastern Mediterranean offshore territory are divided into separate blocks (fragments), the frequency-resonance processing of which may be carried out separately. Reconnaissance studies carried out on the Lebanon and Israel offshores indicate that mobile direct-prospecting methods can be used to assess the prospects of oil and gas potential (ore potential) of large prospecting blocks and local areas (including those put up for auction), the selection of optimal locations (sites) of exploratory and production wells drilling, assessment of the prospects of oil and gas deposits discovering in the deep horizons of cross-section, searches and localization of deep channels for the migration of chemical elements, fluids and mineral matter into the upper horizons of cross-section. The use of super-mobile and low-cost technology will significantly speed up the geological exploration process for hydrocarbons, natural hydrogen, ore minerals, as well as reduce financial costs for its implementation. The financial resources saved in this way can be used in further stages of oil and gas extraction and energy production using increased environmental standards regarding air polluting gases.