Key words: gas sand, seismic attributes, turbidite, Miocene, Pannonian basin.
The Algyő gas play in the Makó Trough, Pannonian basin, in south-eastern part of Hungary represents a Miocene petroleum system where turbiditic sandstone reservoirs are charged from the underlying mature lacustrine dark shales as source rocks and sealed by the overlying uniform slope shales. Recognition of stratigraphic traps within various types of turbidites was based on high-resolution 3D seismic geomorphology, mapping of numerous seismic attributes and AVO analysis. The presence of a series of 10-50 m thick, gas bearing slope detached sandy lobes and turbidite channels is validated by the Kútvölgy-1 well drilled in the summer of 2013.
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