Constraining the burial history of the ghadames basin. Although several total petroleum systems may exist within each of. Map of sirte basin and the location of study area 3 1. The civil uprising of 2011 interrupted exploration activity in the basin. Some 700 exploratory wells have been drilled in the basin. These data may not be used in whole, or in part, within any dataset for resale or distribution without written permission from cgg data services, ag. Review of water governance in the narmada river basin 2 apart from this there are some granite, and the gondwana shale and sedimentary rocks in parts of the hills and plains and alluvial deposits near the river courses. Basin analysis and petroleum systems modeling of the. Sediment supply is a function of climate exerting controls on. Carboniferous and devonian stratigraphythe mrar and tadrart. Basin basinscale analysis, synthesis, and integration the impact of basinscale oceanographic and climaterelated processes on the dynamics of key plankton and. This could have introduced an accuracy which is beyond the original data. Tlacsin formation has been correlated throughout the ghadames basin.
Finally, alpine tethys and the east mediterranean basin the southernmost branch of neo. Determination of reservoir play fairway of the lower. Tunisia were investigated based on the continue reading. About 46 % of the basin area falls in amhara state, 32% falls in oromia and the rest of about 22% in binishangulgumuz states. Mike basin is a network model in which the rivers and their main tributaries are represented by a network of branches and nodes. Hydrocarbons trapped prior to the hercynian event were dispersed during later periods of structural deformation. Accommodation is the interplay of eustatic sealevel changes, basin subsidenceuplift, local patterns of faulting. The petroleum systems of the five major onshore sedimentary basinssirt, murzuq, kufrah, ghadamis, and cyrenaicaand the offshore tripolitania basin are described. An investigation of the thermal history of the ahnet and reggane basins, central algeria, and the consequences for hydrocarbon generation and accumulation palaeozoic reservoirs and fields.
The sirte basin also referred to as sirt basin is a late mesozoic and tertiary continental rift, triple junction, in northern africa. The ghadames basin of nw libya contains more than 10 b brls oil. Sirte basin, central libya by salah a shaniba a thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of the missouri university of science and technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree master of science in geology and geophysics 2012 approved by wan yang, advisor mohamed g. The province extends offshore into the mediterranean sea, with the northern boundary drawn at the 2,000 meter m. Analysis of water use on a large river basin using mike basin. An overview of the evolution and the petroleum systems of the eastern ghadames hamra basin libya francesco bertello, claudio visentin, walter ziza agip north africa, tripoli, libya introduction the hamra basin constitutes the eastern portion of the vast ghadames basin, an intracratonic paleozoic sag located on the north african platform. The basin data is derived from a lower resolution grid which has been upsampled using gmt. The thesis compiles recent studies in the basin and meteorological, hydrological and demand data for each irrigation schemes were considered for the analysis. Reservoir rocks range in age from precambrian to eocene.
Robertson basins and plays tellus sedimentary basins of. In the subsurface, the berkine basin is limited to the west and north by the hassi messaoud and dahar structural ridges, respectively. The bikanernagaur basin about 90,000 sq km is essentially a paleozoic basin located to the east of pokharannachna high and is relatively shallow and represents the southern flank of the indus basin. Generation of hydrocarbons in the burial history of. This feedback was ultimately disrupted by rising siliciclastic influx, which diluted organic matter and restored benthic redox stability. I am developing this interpreter for selflearning purposes,dont take it serious. The ghadames basin is a large intracratonic basin, covering portions of. Geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the ghadames basin, algeria, tunisia, libya k. The basin is floored by a northwestsoutheasttrending mosaic of narrow horsts and grabens, an important structural characteristic that distinguishes it from the adjacent intracratonic kufra, murzuk, and ghadames basins. Aqueduct metadata document mekong river basin study pdf. The data selection and validation process for the mekong river basin study involved three steps. Map showing 3d seismic survey as outlined by the triangle and wells.
Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. The well is located approximately 650 km southwest of tripoli and 70 km south of elwafa field. Pdf on oct 1, 2003, habib troudi and others published paleozoic petroleum systems in ghadames basin, southern tunisia find, read and. Water evaluation and planning system weap model is. The geological conference on exploration in the murzuq basin held in. Dotted lines indicate location of 2d section s, and filled circles are well control. Tanezzuftghadames structuralstratigraphic assessment. Palaeozoic petroleum systems of the murzuq basin, libya. Pdf hydrocarbon exploration in the berkine ghadames basin in southern. Pdf paleozoic petroleum systems in ghadames basin, southern.
Locatio n map of the ghadames basin showing its mai n structural elemen ts solid black lines. The upper aquifer system mostly formed of carbonate rocks mizdah and nalut formations. This work addresses the detection of aquifers and the delineation of subsurface structures predominant in the basement rocks and their relations with these aquifers at the bahariya oasis, western desert, egypt, and the relationship between the subsurface structures and the aquifers. This total petroleum system and corresponding assessment unit coincide with the ghadames berkine basin, bounded on the north by the talemzanegefara arch, on the east by the. New insight on petroleum system modeling of ghadames basin. This groundwater basin consists of two major aquifer systems. The sirte basin province is characterized by one dominant petroleum system, the sirtezelten, which is subdi vided into four assessment units. Pdf stratigraphic controls on palaeozoic petroleum. Regional framework of hot shale the area investigated in this study is in souther tunisia, northern flank of the ghadames basin. The sirte basin also referred to as sirt basin is a late mesozoic and tertiary continental rift, triple junction, in northern africa that borders a relati vely stable p aleo.
Mekong river basin international union for conservation. It covers about 390,000 km2 with the depocenter of the basin situated on algerian side. Libya illizi ghadames exploration basin report wood mackenzie. These are interpreted to represent interactive shelf to nearshore, shoreface and fluviodeltaic environments. Ghadames berkine basin, bounded on the north by the talemzanegefara arch, on the east by the hamra basin, on the south by the illizi basin, and on the west by the amguidhassi touareg structural axis. The basin includes the truckee and carson rivers and pyramid lake and encompasses the cities of carson city, reno and sparks, as well as reclamations newlands project, all in nevada. The mean bifurcation ratio of the basin is observed 4. The sirte basin is a late mesozoic and cenozoic triple junction continental rift extensional basin along northern africa that was initiated during the late jurassic period.
Quantitative morphometric analysis of bhadar river basin. Constraining the burial history of a sedimentary basin is crucial for accurate prediction of hydrocarbon generation and migration. Ethiopia genaledawa river basin integrated resources. The barmer basin, is an elongated narrow graben and is separtated from jaisalmer subbasin by the devikot nachna uplift figure 2 and figure 3. The major source rocks are the silurian tanezzuft formation and middle to upper devonian mudstone. The sirt basin is the youngest intracratonic rift basin in libya, formed by active subsidence and blockfaulting figure 1 accompanying the collapse of the sirt arch in late early cretaceous time hallett, 2002.
The colorado river basin study was released in december 2012. Integrated geochemical data suggest that black shale deposition in the devonian geneseo formation of western new york was initiated by the coincidence of siliciclastic starvation and the intensification of seasonal water column stratification and mixing. Analysis, integration, synthesis and modelling of north atlantic data sets. Sedimentological analysis and hydrocarbon potential of the. Structural control of hydrogeological aquifers in the. Googles free service instantly translates words, phrases, and web pages between english and over 100 other languages. A layered block called a graben has dropped down in the middle relative to the blocks on either side of the. A maximum thickness of about 7000 m of paleozoic sedimentary rocks is reached in algeria. It borders a relatively stable paleozoic craton and cratonic sag basins along its southern margins. Ghadames basin for noc, no new original work was contributed.
The lower aquifer system formed mostly of sandstone known as kiklah formation. This intracratonic sag basin, which extends into algeria and tunisia, contains up to 3000 m of cambrian to carboniferous deposits, unconformably overlain by triassic to cenozoic strata boote et al. Foreign operators reentered the basin over 2012 but security deteriorated in 2014 and we expect unrest to continue in the near to medium term. The analysis and interpretation of the subsurface data of this formation allow for the.
Determination of reservoir play fairway of the lower acacus. The well is located approximately 650 km southwest of. Santa maria 1991 4, completed a regional study on the ghadames hamada basin. This page bundles the available data for the abu gharadiq basin in the africa. I realized this pdf from my i and dad encouraged this pdf to discover. Burki, milad mohamed milad 1998 sedimentological analysis and hydrocarbon potential of the upper devonianlower carboniferous tahara sandstones, ghadames basin, western libya. The basin spreads over part of algeria, tunisia and libya and extends over 350000km2 area. Search type research explorer website staff directory. I about the nile basin initiative the nile basin initiative nbi is a transitional intergovernmental partnership led by 10 member states. Depositional and tectonic controls on architecture of the. The subsidence of the basin reached a climax during paleocene and eocene times gumati and kanes, 1985. Jan 31, 2019 the asset report for the libya illizi ghadames exploration basin has been archived. A full field static model of the rgoil field, central. Nafusa oil operations is planning to produce 10,000 barrels of oil a day bd from the project, which it expects to come online in the second quarter of 2018, according to a statement released by.
Echikh petroleum exploration consulting ltd, 2022 bedford row, london wc1r 4en, uk. Tanezzuft ghadames structuralstratigraphic 20540301 description. A pdf document that gives a brief overview of robertson basins and plays. Ghadames, located within the saharan platform, is an intracratonic polycyclic intracontinental basin encompassing more than 250000 km2 in the western part of north africa. The ghadamis basin is a prolific hydrocarbon province, with total recoverable oil discovered to date in excess of 3. Tethys connected to each other somewhere east of sicily likely during the middle or the late jurassic. Diagenesis, provenance and reservoir quality of triassic. Burial history, temperature variations, and organic matter maturation in the sedimentary rocks in the ghadames basin were numerically reconstructed using the galo system for basin modeling taking into account repeated tectonic stretching and thermal activation events in the basin lithosphere. This paper presents the first published basinwide view of petroleum stratigraphy. The sirte basin province of libyasirtezelten total. Generation of hydrocarbons in the burial history of silurian.
Although the ghadames basin is a prolific hydrocarbon province, with recoverable oil discovered to date in excess of 3. Cenozoic subsidence and lithospheric stretching deformation. This paper presents the first published basinwide view of petro leum stratigraphy and play types. The modeling improved the reconstruction of the thermal history of the basin and hydrocarbon. Baird 3 1 petroleum research centre, po box 6431, tripoli, libya. May 17, 2011 the origin of the particular dog leg shape of this basin is not yet well understood. Burollet, 1991 and several wells encountered the thick paleozoic succession characterizing particularly the ghadames basin in the saharan platform. This could have introduced an accuracy which is beyond the original. Read pdf the sirte basin province of libya, sirtezelten. Basin 35 mm mm 265 415 mm mm 190 mm 160 mm 29 s mm 45 mm 190 mm mm 440 mm av 3438 semlrewssed basin 440 x 183 mm mm 31 mm 45 mm 620 mm av 3620 art basin mm 170 85 125 170 mm mm 510 mm wb 3510 semlrac. Libyas national oil corporation noc has announced the revival of the project to develop an onshore oil field in block 47 in the ghadames basin.
Where the basin lies close to a plate margin, the type of plate interaction occurring during sedimentation. This basin covers an area of about 215,000 km2 in northwestern libya. This page bundles the available data for the illizi basin in the africa. The transboundary nature of the river also possess extra challenges. Introduction the ghadames basin is a major north african paleozoic basin, with. The area of the sirte basin occupies about 230,000 km. Basin reconstructions and burial history modelling suggest three expulsion peaks from the basal tanezzuft formation source rock, preceding major periods of hercynian, austrian and alpine mid.
Analysis of water use on a large river basin using mike. It really is basic but shocks inside the 50 % in the pdf. I will try to follow syntax of qbasic as close as i can. The images are hyperlinks and will open up a separate window with a high resolution pdf image of the map. Sep 23, 2014 burial history, temperature variations, and organic matter maturation in the sedimentary rocks in the ghadames basin were numerically reconstructed using the galo system for basin modeling taking into account repeated tectonic stretching and thermal activation events in the basin lithosphere. Foreign operators reentered the basin over 2012 but security deteriorated in 2014 and we expect unrest to continue in. View the article pdf and any associated supplements and figures for a period of 48 hours. Ethiopia genaledawa river basin integrated resources development master plan study project completion report.
The basin developed from the late paleozoic through much of the early cretaceous, with continuous uplift that created the sirte arch. Psstratigraphy and reservoir characteristics of the desmoinesian granite wash marmaton group, southern anadarko basin alyssa m. Tanezzuftghadames structuralstratigraphic assessment unit. Purchase of an open document does not constitute license for republication in any form, nor does it allow web posting without prior written permission. Total petroleum systems of the triasghadames province, algeria. Petroleum assessment of berkine ghadames basin, southern tunisia article pdf available in aapg bulletin 3. The sirt basin, the most prolific oil basin in africa, contains 89% of libyas reserves and 16 giant oil fields. Basin existing between 3 to 5, which shows minimum structural disturbances. Stratigraphic controls on palaeozoic petroleum systems, ghadames basin, libya. Review of water governance in the narmada river basin. The north african margin affected by several phases of tectonic events. The palaeozoic upper devonianlower carboniferous tahara formation, western libya, was deposited in shallowwater, marginal and nearshore marine environments influenced by waves and storms.
The position of the basin relative to plate margins 3. Megan cartin, rebecca welling, ganesh pangare and tawatchai rattanasorn the water and nature initiates wani activities in the mekong followed a strategy of mobilizing grassroots engagement of local stakeholders in decision making, while facilitating high. Ghadames basin is one of the important groundwater basins in libya. The asset report for the libya illizighadames exploration basin has been archived. The berkineghadames basin is one of many intracratonic basins of the north african saharan platform. Consequently, the nile basin countries jointly recognized that the best way to utilize, protect and manage the nile basin in an integrated sustainable way was through a. Wani case study mekong river basin 1 water and nature initiative wani c ase study mekong river basin authors. Geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the ghadames basin, algeria, tunisia, libya logan, p. Black shale deposition and faunal overturn in the devonian. Pdf depositional environment and source potential of devonian. Water resources evaluation in ghadamis basin, libya. The ghadames basin located in western libya is a large intracratonic sag basin formed during the early palaeozoic and accumulated up to 6000 m of palaeozoic and mesozoic sediments underdown and redfern, 2008. Meed libya revives oil project in the ghadames basin.
Geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the ghadames basin. The sirte basin, located in the north central part of libya, is one of four known sedimentary basins in libya. Pdf petroleum generation and migration in the ghadames. Burundi, dr congo, egypt, ethiopia, kenya, rwanda, south sudan, the sudan, tanzania, and uganda. Diagenetic evolution of incised channel sandstones.
Robertson basins and plays tellus sedimentary basins. Diagenesis, provenance and reservoir quality of triassic tagi. Field view in the western gargaf of the erosive surfaces on top of the hawaz for. The river system is represented in the model by a digitized river network that can be generated directly on the computer screen in arc map 9. Sirte basin, central libya by salah a shaniba a thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of the. Dec 12, 2017 libyas national oil corporation noc has announced the revival of the project to develop an onshore oil field in block 47 in the ghadames basin. Geochemical studies have been made by ferjaoui and others 2001 which indicates that oil and gas discovered in the ghadamis basin were sourced by two major rock units. Petroleum assessment of berkine ghadames basin, southern tunisia. Petroleum assessment of berkineghadames basin, southern tunisia article pdf available in aapg bulletin 3. The sirte basin province of libya, sirtezelten total petroleum system. A layered block called a graben has dropped down in.
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