Case Capozzi

Status

Applications for exploration permit for hydrocarbon onshore, submitted on 28/04/2012

Area

423,7 km2

Location

Campania Region, Benevento and Avellino provinces

Environmental Procedure

Completed

Landscape

Mostly hilly

Case Capozzi covers an area of the Apennines thrust belt, which is characterised at the surface by Tertiary flysch deposits and Apennine carbonates units.

The exploration target is represented by the Mesozoic fractured carbonate rocks belonging to the Apulian carbonate platform. These units have already been proved by some wells drilled in the area in the 70s and 80s.

AREA OF INTEREST: SCHEMATIC GEOLOGICAL CROSS SECTION