Exploration Maps
The three pictures below illustrate Zion’s geological and geophysical activity. The map on the far left shows Zion’s license areas (outlined in red) relative to the entire State of Israel. Prior to 1990, most of the exploration and drilling was concentrated along the southern Mediterranean coast and the Negev desert of southern Israel and most of the oil and gas shows and commercial discoveries were in those areas as shown on the map. Zion used the limited pre-1990 seismic, gravity and magnetic studies to initiate its geological and geophysical activities. Since 1990, twenty four seismic lines were acquired in the field by Zion, its predecessor at Ma’anit and two other companies. All of the seismic lines currently available to Zion in our licenses are shown in the middle picture. Including those lines shown below, Zion has a country wide geophysical data base of 226 seismic lines totaling over 3200 kilometers (2993 miles), all of the magnetic and gravimetric data in the licenses and all of the geological information on every well drilled in Israel. By combining the new seismic, available geological information and gravity and magnetic studies with twenty four additional seismic lines that Zion re-processed to improve the quality, Zion is developing three dimensional structural pictures of the prospects and leads in the two licenses as shown in the third illustration depicting the interpretation of the Ma’anit structure at the tops of the major geological ages.





