Mr.Haan Hasan Abdullah Almajid

University of Mosul,Department of Petroleum Reservoir Engineering,Mosul,Iraq.

Dear Sir: Thank you and congratulation for your interesting paper,recently published in JMO+s journal,in Turkey. I tried to evaluate your article from the point of view of a Petroleum Geologist. I worked on the Taq Taq Oilfield in northern Iraq, with Turkish Genel Energy Oil Company.

I studied your maps and sections,indicating tectonic situations with presentations of anticlines-synclines and faults and basement and sedimentary cover in the area.

Dear Sir: When you look at closely Figure-1 in your manuscript, you see two kinds of anticlinal orientations: SURFACE anticlines are oriented in SW-NE direction, while SUBSURFACE anticlines in NW_SE direction. We know that,due to the movements of Arabian and Anatolian_Iranian during geological times, the tectonic forces are produced from north to south, like incated in your map at the Turkish border. Than, it is normal to expect orientations of surface anticlines parallel to the subduction zone in NW-SE direction. My question is, did you constate the same situations in the basement rocks? And what kind of BASEMENT IMPLICATIONS can we expect on the reservoir distributions in the area ? If you let me know your further interpretations, I'll be very happy Sir.

Thanks and congratulates again. Regards.

Prof.Dr.Bülent COŞKUN

Senior Petroleum Geologist

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