A Very Unusual Platform-Edge Carbonate Mound Reservoir - Irminio Oil Field, SE Sicily

F-07 A VERY UNUSUAL PLATFORM-EDGE CARBONATE MOUND RESERVOIR - IRMINIO OIL FIELD SE SICILY 1 DOUGLAS D. LINDSEY JON KIRKPATRICK and PHILIP CHOQUETTE The Anschutz Overseas Corporation 2400 Qwest Tower 555 17 th Street Denver CO 80202 USA Abstract This study focuses on the Norian through Lower Hettangian carbonate cycles in the subsurface of the Ragusa-Irminio part of the Hyblean platform of southeastern Sicily Figure 1. The Rhaetian Noto-Mila Formation has recorded the latter stages of late Triassic Tethyan rifting platform subsidence and an unusual type of outer-platform and platform edge carbonate production. Original cool-water karst and much later-stage hot-water