Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. The exploration effort in libya, which began in 1957, has been a phenomenal success. Rigid blocks were overlaid with various depositions, sands and. This study was sponsored by repsol exploration murzuq s. Satellite imagery for structural geological interpretation in western sirt basin, libya. Introduction the murzuq basin is situated on the southwest of libya and was initiated during the paleozoic. Law,2 and haider ali shah3 1 us geological survey, denver, colorado. Remsa utilizes nuclear magnetic resonance nmr data through two different procedures. A basin in the geological sense, is a depression in the earths lithosphere. Geological exploration in murzuq basin, earthscience. Generation of hydrocarbons in the burial history of silurian. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read sedimentary basins and petroleum geology of the middle east. The present work evaluates the middle ordovician hawaz sandstone reservoir in four wells a25nc186, a30nc186, h2nc186 and h4nc186 distributed in the nc186 concession of murzuq basin, libya. Palaeozoic petroleum systems of the murzuq basin, libya.
Exploration efforts started in this vast and remote saharan region already in 1957 and 60 exploratory wells have been drilled to date, resulting in over 20 discoveries with around 4,000 million barrels of oil in place. Hydrocarbon source rock potential and elemental composition of lower silurian subsurface shales of the eastern murzuq basin. An intracratonic sag basin extending across southwest libya and into northern niger, exploration of this remote region of the sahara commenced in the late 1950s and there have been more than. Satellite imagery for structural geological interpretation. Pdf field report of the ordovician glacial deposits of.
This includes rift basins, foreland basins, pullapart basins, back arc basins, sag basins and other. Geological survey petroleum systems of the po basin province of northern italy and the northern adriatic sea. Abstract geochemical analyses of rock samples and produced oil. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Petroleum systems of the po basin province of northern.
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It has a maximum total thickness of more than 3000 meter in the central part. The importance of both geological structures and mining. Petroleum potential of the underexplored basin centers a. The bureau has a wideranging expertise in integrated basin and play analysis, quantifying remaining oil and gas potential of producing basins, and describing geologic controls on hydrocarbon resources in texas, the offshore gulf of mexico, and eastern mexico. The successful exploration has been made in the murzuq basin, 800 km south of the capital tripoli. Nmr porositypermeability information is integrated and combined with the petrophysical formation evaluation, logging formation pressure data, cores evaluation when available and used to decide a possible well production test. Exploration efforts started in this vast and remote saharan. Geological exploration in murzuq basin sciencedirect. Reservoir quality and expected fluids for the ordovician. Libyan murzuq basin source rocks search and discovery. The taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the aeronian graptoloid graptolites of the tanezzuft formation murzuq basin and al qarqaf arch area is presented and discussed with respect to their palaeoenvironmental setting and palaeobiogeographical links. Hydrocarbon probability of middle ordovician hawaz.
Comparative study between well logging and core analysis. The exploration history of the murzuq basin is linked to the exploration history. Pdf clay types and reservoir quality of the hawaz succession. Wadi al shati district is named after the depression former lakebed of the same name, wadi ashati.
Geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition. Two chronostratigraphic correlation panels have been. Despite our everexpanding electronic world, many original sources of real data and information seem to be overlooked, resulting in much redundant activity, especially unfortunate in an extreme. Central murzuq basin in this area of more than 30,000 km 2, up to the year 2000 only four wells had been drilled. To the west, wadi al shati borders the illizi province of algeria. Abstract field development and reservoir simulation studies are usually performed relatively late in the life of an oil or gas field. Hfield is one of the new discoveries in this concession. Sedimentary basins and petroleum geology of the middle east ebook written by a. The main target of this investigation is to detect and evaluate the hydrocarbon play of hawaz formation in hfield. The middle ordovician hawaz clastic reservoir on the murzuq basin is a new exploration play of great importance in the nc186 concession. Sedimentary basins and petroleum geology of the middle.
A detailed organic geochemical study of 20 core and cuttings samples collected from the silurian tanezzuft formation, murzuq basin, in the southwestern part of libya has demonstrated the advantages of pyrolysis geochemical methods for evaluating the sourcerock potential of this geological unit. The lithological succession in east kutai basin, east. Hfield is one of the new discoveries in nc186 concession in murzuq basin, libya. Murzuq basin is one of the most important basins in libya. Pdf facies models and sequence stratigraphy of upper. Petrophysical characteristics and seismic interpretations of the hawaz formation. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read geological exploration in murzuq basin.
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Geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition elsevier. The murzuq basin is a large intracratonic sag basin located in southwestern libya. Prepared by nubian consulting updated epsa iv3 version january 2007. Glacial sedimentology interpretation from borehole image.
Roering et al4 has resulted in a complex fault and dyke pattern. This report summaries the main results of the field study conducted around murzuq basin during the period from february 10 to april 5, 1998. The main goal of this work is to explore gas in the bir tlacsin shale in well e1nc58, murzuq basin, sw libya. Geology of southern libya seven continents science productions.
There are a variety of basin types depending on how they were formed. This study was conducted to recognize the lithological succession in eastern part of kutai basin based on detail surficial mapping and laboratory analyses. A key risk in hydrocarbon exploration is the distribution of the postglacial, organic hot. Location map of the ghadamis and murzuq basins, showing the basincenter areas of study. Sembar gorughazij composite total petroleum system. Systematic exploration for oil in the amazon basin of brazil was begun in a large way with the formation of petrobras in 1953 and which got underway in 1954. Sola, geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the murzuq basin, sw libya, in geological exploration in the murzuq. Ebook geological exploration in murzuq basin as pdf. Technically recoverable shale oil and shale gas resources eia.
It is often below sea level geological basins are one of the two most common places inland which collect sediment the other is lakes. Order sequence stratigraphy of the palaeozoic of north africa carr, i. Geological exploration in murzuq basin, elsevier science. The exploration history of the murzuq basin is linked to the exploration. Geological exploration in murzuq basin geological exploration in murzuq basin hallett, don 20020501 00. Stanford libraries official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. Exploration in north africa and the middle east has traditionally focused on the prolific mesozoic and cenozoicsourced petroleum systems of the nile delta, the sirte basin, the pelagian shelf, and the arabian plate and on the palaeozoicsourced petroleum systems of the berkine, ghadames, illizi, ahnet and murzuq basins, the central arabian. Estimate the natural gas inplace as a combination of free gas1 and adsorbed gas2 that. Integrated workflow for exploration in frontier areas. The geology is of interest to oil prospectors, hydrologists and palaeontologists. The geology of the amazon basin of brazil and case history of exploration, 195460. The geology of the north sea describes the geological features such as channels, trenches, and ridges today and the geological history, plate tectonics, and geological events that created them. At this time, specific questions such as mitigating early water breakthrough, infill well locations, fracture behaviour and so on need to be addressed. The type of rocks which form there tell about the palaeoclimate of the continent.
The basement of the north sea was formed in an intraplate setting during the precambrian. The geological conference on exploration in the murzuq basin held in. The full documentary movie is now online on youtube, free of charge. Purchase geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition. Nuclear magnetic resonance and data integration in murzuq. This basin is considered to be the most prolific oil basin in north africa with an oil gravity that ranges between 44 and 32 api, and a sulphur content of between 0.
Integrated workflow for exploration in frontier areas andreas laake, kristijan duplo kornpihl, and andrew bishop, westerngeco summary exploration for hydrocarbons in remote areas often suffers from the lack of sufficient geological information. Map shows the location of the studied wells f1, g1 and h1 in the northern edge of the murzuq basin. This discovery in libya confirms the potential of the country for omvs upstream activities. Pdf petroleum system of the murzuq basin researchgate. Geological setting the muruk basin is a cratonic sedimentary basin and is located in the southwest of libya and extends inside.
Typically, this is done through reservoir simulation studies. This field has been affected by the structural and tectonic movements of murzuq basin and created. Facies models and sequence stratigraphy of upper ordovician outcrops in the murzuq basin, sw libya. Hawaz formation present in the subsurface of murzuq basin forms one of the.
Hydrocarbon source potential of the tanezzuft formation. The sirt basin includes cretaceous and paleocene reservoir sequence s and upper cretaceous sirt shale is a major source rock for this basin. In this area, the glaciogenic succession is mainly composed of mature sands eroded from rather homogeneous sandy preglacial formations, diamictites, and some thin shale intervals moreau, 2005, 2011. The available well log data set for each well includes.
Petroleum system and play fairway analysis of the murzuq basin an assessment of the hydrocarbon exploration potential in the central and southern part of the murzuq basin with emphasis on the tanezzufthaouazmemouniat petroleum system. Proved reserves are volumes of oil and natural gas that geologic and. Order information, authors, expert interviews, script as pdf, video clips, photographs. Desert film footage from the murzuq and kufra basins forms the core of the film project.
The structure, stratigraphy and petroleum geology of the murzuq. Porto garibaldi biogenic, merideriva di solto thermal, and marnoso arenacea thermal paper edition by sandra j. Ward encyclopedia of life support systems eolss coal marketing. The bulk of the great basin lies within the state of nevada state outlines are shown on accompanying paleotectonic maps, but it extends also into western utah and the eastern fringe of california. Over the past 20 years, the concept of storing or permanently storing carbon dioxide in geological media has gained increasing attention as part of the important technology option of carbon capture and storage within a portfolio of options aimed at reducing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases to the earths atmosphere. Twentyfour papers out of the forty presented at the conference have been published, in a single volume of 518 pages. In the area to the north, where oil reserves are some 1 billion barrels, the reservoirs are the sandstones of the ordovician memouniat formation. Request pdf the structure, stratigraphy and petroleum geology of the murzuq basin, southwest libya this chapter discusses that the principal hydrocarbon. Abstract interpretation and analysis of landsat imagery, integrated with published geological maps, has provided the. It provides the valuable information to support exploration activities regarding many hydrocarbon fields located in and around this area. These graptolites have parallelsided rhabdosomes with long, straight virgellae, climacograptid thecae and a full straight median septum. Jaap huijskes pictured, omv executive board member responsible for exploration and production. Figure 1, the homogeneous signature of the conventional openhole logging tools results from the lack of large petrographic contrasts between the units figure 2. Worsley geological exploration in murzuq basin world.