This intracratonic sag basin, which extends into algeria and tunisia, contains up to 3000 m of cambrian to carboniferous deposits. 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. The modeling improved the reconstruction of the thermal history of the basin and hydrocarbon. Black shale deposition and faunal overturn in the devonian appalachian basin. Geological exploration in murzuq basin sciencedirect. Purchase geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition. Carboniferous and devonian stratigraphy the mrar and tadrart reservoirs, ghadames basin, libya f. 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. Geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the ghadames basin. Conference program edited by amjad kallel, ali sdiri, mongi felhi, moncef serbaji enis, tunisia.
Depositional and tectonic controls on architecture of the. Three basins, the oued elmya, ghadames, and illizi, are located in the central and eastern parts of the saharan platform and are investigated in detail. The sirte basin, located in the north central part of libya, is one of four known sedimentary basins in libya. Three petroleum systems can be distinguished within the basin. 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. The asset report for the libya illizighadames exploration basin has been archived. Introduction the ghadames basin is a major north african paleozoic basin. I about the nile basin initiative the nile basin initiative nbi is a. Tanezzuftghadames structuralstratigraphic assessment unit. Black shale deposition and faunal overturn in the devonian. The ghadames basin is a large intracratonic basin, covering portions of algeria, tunisia and libya.
Burki, milad mohamed milad 1998 sedimentological analysis and hydrocarbon potential of the upper devonianlower carboniferous tahara sandstones, ghadames basin, western libya. Gadames is an oasis berber town in the nalut district of the tripolitania region in northwestern libya. Ghadames basin is one of the important groundwater basins in libya. The ghadames basin lies on the north african platform and extends over parts of algeria, tunisia and libya fig. I am developing this interpreter for selflearning purposes,dont take it serious. Baird 3 1 petroleum research centre, po box 6431, tripoli, libya. I about the nile basin initiative the nile basin initiative nbi is a transitional intergovernmental partnership led by 10 member states. Carboniferous and devonian stratigraphythe mrar and tadrart. An analysis was undertaken to appraise the effectiveness of using the current remote sensing data and deep seismic reflection profiles to evaluate both the surface and subsurface structures of the hamada oil pool on the western part of libya. 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. The galo basin evolution model described in makhous et al. Underdown and redfern 2008 performed petroleum system modeling of ghadames basin along a ew section fig.
Geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition. The berkine ghadames basin is an intracratonic basin formed during the panafrican orogeny. Generation of hydrocarbons in the burial history of silurian. Sedimentological analysis and hydrocarbon potential of the.
Petroleum assessment of berkine ghadames basin, southern tunisia. The surface geology is illustrated in colour with generalized tophercynian structural contours ft shown in black and the erosional limits of the silurian, devonian and carboniferous by red dotted lines. The oasis being one of the busiest caravan trade centres in the libyan. 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. Redfern, the importance of constraining regional exhumation in basin modelling. Libya illizi ghadames exploration basin report wood mackenzie. The civil uprising of 2011 interrupted exploration activity in the basin. 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.
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. Tanezzuftghadames structuralstratigraphic assessment. The berkineghadames basin is one of many intracratonic basins of the north african saharan platform. Algeria illizi ghadames exploration basin report wood. Gadames is an oasis berber town in the nalut district of. The major source rocks are the silurian tanezzuft formation and middle to upper devonian mudstone. Pdf the distribution of oil and gas accumulations in the hamada oil pool is strongly influenced. Foreign operators reentered the basin over 2012 but security deteriorated in 2014 and we expect unrest to continue in the near to medium term.
Regional framework of hot shale the area investigated in this study is in souther tunisia, northern flank of the ghadames basin. The position of the basin relative to plate margins 3. Exploration efforts started in this vast and remote saharan region already in 1957 and 60 exploratory wells have been. G drilling outlook black sea, caspian, mediterranean bustling. The adobeconstructed historic city of ghadames, libya, a unesco registered world heritage site, is an outstanding example of a sustainable human settlement. The basin was affected by major deformation in the late palaeozoic, rifting in the early mesozoic and successive compressional episodes in the cretaceous, paleogene and neogene. 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. The upper aquifer system mostly formed of carbonate rocks mizdah and nalut formations. The hamra basin constitutes the eastern portion of the vast ghadames basin, an intracratonic paleozoic sag located on the north african platform. I will try to follow syntax of qbasic as close as i can. New insight on petroleum system modeling of ghadames basin.
Urban planning and architecture of the historic city of. A full field static model of the rgoil field, central sirte. This basin covers an area of about 215,000 km2 in northwestern libya. Jan 31, 2019 the asset report for the libya illizi ghadames exploration basin has been archived. Petroleum assessment of berkine ghadames basin, southern. Geological survey world petroleum assessment 2000 team in u. Geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition elsevier. Westeast and northsouth 2d section models across the ghadames basin showing the regional angular hercynian unconformity. The reservoirs applied petrophysical integrated data rapid is a webenabled database application for organizing, archiving, retrieving, and summarizing geological and petrophysical data. Petroleum assessment of berkineghadames basin, southern tunisia article pdf available in aapg bulletin 3. Where the basin lies close to a plate margin, the type of plate interaction occurring during sedimentation.
Meed libya revives oil project in the ghadames basin. The three countries are independently conducting petroleum exploration in their portions of the basin, using different play concepts and consequently obtaining dif ferent exploration results. 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. Selley 27 introduction 27 stratigraphy and facies 27 structure and tectonic evolution 31 igneous activity 34 selected bibliography 35 references 36. 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. Ghadames lies roughly 462 km 287 mi to the southwest of tripoli, near the borders with algeria and tunisia.
As discussed in previous paragraph, 2d model can not be considered. Geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the ghadames basin, algeria, tunisia. Water resources evaluation in ghadamis basin, libya salem rashrash, hanan saleh farag geological engineering department, university of tripoli, faculty of engineering, tripoli, libya abstract ghadames basin is one of the important groundwater basins in libya. The national oil corporation noc has announced that sonatrach sipex libya operator, oil india, and indian oil report initial information concerning exploration well c19601 drilled in contract area 9596 in ghadames basin. 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 old city of ghadames is the oldest habitable medina in the entire sahara.
The objective of this paper is to document traditional adobe building practices employed in ghadames and, ultimately, to expose practitioners to the valuable experiences accumulated over a. The well is located approximately 650 km southwest of tripoli and 70 km south of elwafa field. Pdf stratigraphic controls on palaeozoic petroleum. The indigenous language of ghadames is ghadames, a berber language. Exploration in the basin started in the early 1900s, and since then a large number of commercial and subcommercial oil and gas discoveries have been made in paleozoic and mesozoic reservoirs the two key plays in this basin. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. The intracratonic ghadamis basin encompasses a portion of western libya, southern tunisia and eastern algeria. Pdf seismotectonic analysis of hamada oil pool, libya, using.
Bp has also committed to about 20 appraisal wells and to acquiring 30,000 sq km of 3d and 5,500 km of 2d seismic data over the ghadames and ghadames. The distribution of oil and gas accumulations in the hamada oil pool is strongly influenced by the structural architecture of the study area. It covers about 390,000 km2 with the depocenter of the basin situated on. The ghadames basin contains a thick sequence of paleozoic strata 15003000 m. Determination of reservoir play fairway of the lower acacus. The area of the sirte basin occupies about 230,000 km. Tindouf basin 17 reggane basin 19 ahnet, mouydir and illizighadames basins 20 murzuk basin 21 the kufra basin, 24 selected bibliography 25 references 26 chapter 3 the sirte basin of libya by r. 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. The sirte basin is a late mesozoic and cenozoic triple junction continental rift extensional. This groundwater basin consists of two major aquifer systems.
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. As discussed in previous paragraph, 2d model can not be considered representative for the whole basin to infer source rock maturation and hydrocarbon generationmigrationaccumulation, if basin has undergone variable geological complexity along different directions. Ghadames borders illizi province, algeria and tataouine governorate, tunisia. 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. Petroleum generation and migration in the ghadames basin. The national oil corporation noc has announced that sonatrach sipex libya operator, oil india, and indian oil report initial information concerning exploration well c19601 drilled in contract area 9596. The basin extends from algeria into libya in the southeast, tunisia in the northeast and is bounded to the west by the oued mya basin. Despite the remote location and arid climate, the hcg has evolved as the. Santa maria 1991 4, completed a regional study on the ghadames hamada basin. Exploration in the basin started in the early 1900s, and since then a large number of commercial and subcommercial oil and gas discoveries have been made in paleozoic and mesozoic reservoirs the two key.
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. Exploration in the basin started in the early 1900s, and since then a large. Burundi, dr congo, egypt, ethiopia, kenya, rwanda, south sudan, the sudan, tanzania, and uganda. Ghadames, is the berber pearl of the sahara, located at the edge of the sahara desert, close to the libyanalgerian border. 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. Nov 20, 2014 the distribution of oil and gas accumulations in the hamada oil pool is strongly influenced by the structural architecture of the study area. Ghadames, located within the saharan platform, is an intracratonic polycyclic.
It covers about 390,000 km2 with the depocenter of the basin situated on algerian side. Where the basin lies close to a plate margin, the type of plate. Petroleum geology of north africa home geological society. Seismotectonic analysis of hamada oil pool, libya, using.
Tindouf basin 17 reggane basin 19 ahnet, mouydir and illizi ghadames basins 20 murzuk basin 21 the kufra basin, 24 selected bibliography 25 references 26 chapter 3 the sirte basin of libya by r. A maximum thickness of about 7000 m of paleozoic sedimentary rocks is reached in algeria. Note did not edit out the obviously erroneous tmax values. Petroleum potential of the underexplored basin centers a. Ghadames city ghadamis 2020 all you need to know before. Threats to the sustainability of both cities are also defined along with ways to overcome them based on lessons from traditional and new architecture. G drilling outlook black sea, caspian, mediterranean. Ghadames basin for noc, no new original work was contributed. The murzuq basin is a large intracratonic sag basin located in southwestern libya. Traditional adobe building practices in the historic city of. Water resources evaluation in ghadamis basin, libya. The intensive exploration conducted in the basin by agip and other oil companies since the 1950s has led to several hydrocarbon discoveries and to a deep geological knowledge of the area.
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