Scientific Drilling in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman
Project Acronym: OODP | State: Completed | Expedition ID: 5057
The Samail Ophiolite in Oman is composed of igneous crust and upper mantle formed at a submarine spreading center, via processes very similar to those at mid-ocean ridges today. Drilling will provide key data on the processes of melt extraction from the mantle, igneous accretion of oceanic crust, and hydrothermal modification of that crust. Drilling will also investigate present day alteration processes, their relationship to the deep biosphere, and their potential for acceleration to achieve carbon capture and storage via in situ mineral carbonation.
Keywords: Asia, Oman, Carbon Capture, Crust, Hydrothermal Alteration, Mantle

Cores are stored at American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA.
Project Management
Contact Person
Lead PIs
- Juerg Matter – University of Southampton
- Damon Teagle – University of Southampton
- Judith Coggon – University of Southampton
- Raeid Abed – Sultans Qaboos University
- Ali Al Rajhi – Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- Wolfgang Bach – University of Bremen
- Keir Becker – University of Miami
- Francoise Boudier – Universite de Montpellier II
- Georges Ceuleneer – Universite Paul Sabatier
- Laurence Coogan – University of Victoria
- Kathryn Gillis – University of Victoria
- Marguerite Godard – Universite de Montpellier II
- Steven Goldstein – Columbia University
- Philippe Gouze – Université de Montpellier
- Greg Hirth – Brown University
- Albrecht Hofmann – Max-Planck-Institute Mainz for Chemistry
- Benoit Ildefonse – Université de Montpellier
- Bjorn Jamtveit – University of Oslo
- Frieder Klein – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Juergen Koepke – University of Hannover
- Charles Langmuir – Harvard University
- Christopher MacLeod – University of Wales
- Craig Manning – University of California at Los Angeles
- Katsuyoshi Michibayashi – Nagoya University
- D. Miller – Texas A&M University
- Sumio Miyashita – University of Niigata
- Sobhi Nasir – Sultans Qaboos University
- Adolphe Nicolas – Université de Montpellier
- Matthew Schrenk – Michigan State University
- Barbara Sherwood Lollar – University of Toronto
- Everett Shock – Arizona State University
- Satish Singh – Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
- Robert Sohn – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Martin Stute – Columbia University
- Alexis Templeton – University of Colorado at Boulder
- Eiichi Takazawa – University of Niigata
- Susumu Umino – Kanazawa University
- Jessica Warren – University of Delaware
- David Goldberg – Columbia University
- Dieter Garbe-Schoenberg – University of Kiel
- Gretchen Bernasconi-Green – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
- Shoji Arai – Kanazawa University
- Zaher Al Sulimani – Oman Water Society
CoPIs
Co-PIs: No data found
Project Details
Project Description
- Title:
- Scientific Drilling in the Samail Ophiolite, Sultanate of Oman (OODP)
- Proposed in:
- 2014
- Current State:
- Completed
- Proposal abstract:
- n.a.
- Geologic age:
- Cretaceous
- Number of drillsites (drillholes):
- 10(16) 2018-Mar-06
- Drilled length:
- 5451.9 m (17 wellholes/hole attempts/hole deepenings/sidetracks total)
- Cored length:
- 3638.4 m
- Core recovered, length:
- 3245.24 m
- Core recovered length / Cored length:
- 89.2%
- Core recovered / Drilled length:
- 59.5%
- Expedition #
- 5057
- Location
- Asia, Oman, Sultanate Oman;Sultanate of Oman
- Coordinates
- 22.0000, 59.0000
- Status
- Completed
Project Location
Project Timeline
Moratorium Phase 2
September 2018 - February 2021
Sampling Party Phase 2
5 July - 5 September 2018
Drilling Phase 2
13 November 2017 - 28 February 2018
Moratorium Phase 1
September 2017 - February 2020
Sampling Party Phase 1
15 July - 15 September 2017
Drilling Phase 1
1 January - 23 March 2017
Full Proposal Approved
Workshop Held
13 - 17 September 2012 in Palisades NY, USA
Workshop Proposal Approved
Workshop Held (IODP)
7 - 10 January 2011 in Muscat, Oman





