Assessing the Mineral Carbonation Potential of Late Oligocene Basalts in SW Saudi Arabia – First Results from Drilling in the Jazan Area
Serguey Arkadakskiy1, Grimur Bjornson2, Maria Lopez Suarez3, Jordania Zerpa3, Jakub Fedorik3, Davide Berno3, Thomas Finkbeiner3, Eric H Oelkers4, Sigurður Raynir Gíslason5, Mouadh Addassi3, Abdulkader Afifi3, Hussein Hoteit3, Noushad Kunnummal6 and Zeyad Ahmed6, (1)Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, (2)Warm Arctic ehf, Reykjavik, Iceland, (3)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (4)CNRS, Toulouse, France, (5)University of Iceland, Institute of Earth Sciences, Reykjavik, Iceland, (6)Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia