13:00, 4 June 2011

Oil source found in Georgia near Black Sea coast

Satellites found a natural source of oil in the Black Sea off the coast of Georgia, the "ScanEx" Company reports.

"The monitoring of oil pollution of the Black Sea allowed detecting a natural source of oil in the south-eastern part of the sea, near the Georgian city of Poti," the company reports.

Specialists have analyzed a series of radar images taken between 1993 and 2011. The images allow establishing the link between the natural manifestations of oil observed on the surface of the sea with the processes of formation and migration of oil hydrocarbons in the sedimentary complex of the south-eastern section of the Black Sea.

According to the experts of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the yield to the surface of the oil in the south-eastern part of the Black Sea only from this source, in case its yield is constant, can ensure the average of one to eight tons per day, or from 400,000 to 3 million tons per year, the "News-Georgia" reports.