From marine organic matter to oil

Exploration · Jurassic

From marine organic matter to oil

Preservation → burial and heating → migration and storage · process diagram

An explanatory illustration informed by Ghawar-region geology, not a measured field section or ancient coastline reconstruction. Pores and fluids are enlarged.

Explore a Jurassic petroleum system around Ghawar in present-day eastern Saudi Arabia: marine organic matter is preserved, buried and heated, then oil migrates and accumulates.