Intracratonic basins form within stable continental interiors. The geology of indonesiasedimentary basins wikibooks, open. Sedimentation and tectonics in rift basins red sea. The total reserves exceed 44 billion barrels of recoverable oil and 37 trillion cubic feet of gas. The espanola basin is a medium rift basin that is part of the rio grande rift system. Some of the more important of these environments are illustrated in figure 6. Infracambrian sediments in libyan sedimentary basins home. Oil and gas reserves and production in libya are owing to the contribu tion of five main sedimentary basins fig. Proved petroliferous basins with commercial production basinal area onland, km2 5100 56000 28000 25000 60000 126000 basinal area offshore up to 200m isobath, km2 2500 116000 24000 30000. A good example is the western canada sedimentary basin extending from the eastern side of the rocky mountains to central manitoba. Thermal history of sedimentary basins springerlink. The sedimentary basins of africa are largely of two types, sag basins, and failed rifts clifford 1986. The collection of papers in this volume is a direct result of the society of economic paleontologists and mineralogists research symposium on thermal history of sedimentary basins. Sedimentary basins occur in diverse geological settings usually associated with plate tectonic activity.
Pdf petroleum system of the murzuq basin researchgate. These variations can be interpreted as consequences of an ongoing collision against the libyan continental promontory. Libya and the great challenges of overcoming difficulties to. Sedimentary basins, or simply basins, vary from bowlshaped to elongated troughs. Canadian border, into which large volumes of clastic sediment that is, sediment of predominantly clay, silt, and sand sizes were deposited. Subsidence along a passive margin, mostly due to longterm accumulation of sediments on the. Executive summary the dynamics of sedimentary basins the. They are pervasive on earth and form in response to complex geologic processes. The sedimentary basins of the united states and canada, volume 5. They are located in five major onshore sedimentary basins. Sedimentary basins form primarily in convergent, divergent and transform settings. Sedimentary basins range in size from as small as hundreds of meters to large parts of ocean basins. Pdf download sedimentary basins and petroleum geology of the middle east read online. This basin is located in northwest libya and covers more than 200,000 km2, extending into southern tunisia and central algeria, with total.
The libyan sedimentary section represents successive marine transgressions and regressions that began in the early paleozoic. Sedimentary basins in india india has 26 sedimentary basins covering an area of 3. Such sediments would have been derived by erosion of high plateaus. It also includes the east flank of the volcanic and volcanosedimentary rocks of the jemez volcanic field. Some of the sag basins, such as the karoo, are clearly syndepositional in origin, with clear evidence that subsidence was coeval with, and exerted a strong control on. The sirte basin province is characterized by one dominant petroleum system, the sirtezelten, which is subdivided into four assessment units. Sedimentary basins 46 tabuk subbasin, saudi arabia 47 widyan subbasin, saudi arabia 47 sirhan subbasin, jordan 47 rub al khali and ras al khaimah subbasins, saudi arabia u. This rift basin is generally regarded as the best natural geological laboratory in the world in which to study the processes of rift formation. Known as sedimentary basins, these features come in many shapes and sizes. Robertson basins and plays tellus sedimentary basins of the world map aapg datapages and the gis publications committee wish to thank robertson a cgg company for allowing the robertson sedimentary basins of the world map to be posted on datapages gis open files page, thereby making it available to the public as a free download. Basin cambay assam shelf bombay offshore krishnagodavari cauvery assamarakan fold belt rajasthan. Parameters controlling distribution of diagenetic alterations.
Request pdf infracambrian sediments in libyan sedimentary basins infracambrian sediments are widely distributed in libya, outcropping on the eastern and. Sedimentary basins societe nationale des hydrocarbures. Other articles where sedimentary basin is discussed. Pdf sedimentary basins of libya 4 th symposium the. Sedimentary succes sions in these basins are of middle mesozoic to recent age. Three of these, the sirte, ghadames, and murzuq, together with the offshore tripolitanian basin, are the main oil producing basins of libya.
Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the united. It is found that, unlike the basins of southern libya and algeria, there is little surface expression of the sirte basin. Convergent boundaries create foreland basins through tectonic compression of oceanic and continental crust during lithospheric flexure. Petroleum potential of the libyan sedimentary basins. These resulted in a series of mixed layers of paleozoic marine and nonmarine sediments shale and sandstone that accumulated in the southern basins. Since most of the sediment transporting agent are water, the sedimentary basin usually the place where the water finally accummulate. A full field static model of the rgoil field, central. Sedimentary basins range in size from as small as hundreds of. The generation and entrapment of hydrocarbon in libya was controlled by the tectonic history of each individual basin. Tectonic movements occurred in northern libya were responsible for the large sedimentary sequences in libyan basins.
Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the united states by james l. In cameroon, there are two main types of sedimentary basins, which belong to three active african petroleum systems, namely, niger delta, west african salt basins and southern and central africa rifts. Depositional analogues libyan oil basins introduction this set of pages introduce the geology of libya and its petroleum resources with links to maps and cross sections assembled from a variety of publications and geological sources by hassan salem hassan swalem to his family, for his phd geological studies at the university of south. The geology of indonesiasedimentary basins wikibooks. Libya and the great challenges of overcoming difficulties. The essential element of the concept is tectonic creation of relief, to. 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 relatively stable paleo. Contrary to prevailing opinion, all libyan sedimentary basins and the aljabal alakhdar platform contain prolific petroleum accumulations with very high prospectivity. The producing sedimentary basins in libya are the sirt, ghadamis, murzuq, and tripolitania basins, collectively containing the countrys major 320 producing oil fields. A technical paper on sedimentary basins of india submitted by. Infracambrian sediments in libyan sedimentary basins.
Request pdf an evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of the sedimentary basins of libya distinctive structural and stratigraphic styles, together with the timely development of source rocks. The challenges of basin research are to understand why sedimentary basins formed where they have and subsided when they did, to characterize the properties of basins and their fill, and to identify the processes that have modified basin materials and their contained fluids. Sedimentary basins of libya 4 th symposium the geology of southern libya a field seminar on the upper ordovician and devonian of al qarqaf area, sw libya. Geometry forms a 0kmlong and 150 to 300kmwide curved feature extending over much of the deep basin from the ionian to. This basin is located in northwest libya and covers more than 200,000 km2, extending into southern tunisia and central algeria, with total estimated recoverable oil of 6 billion barrel of oil, proven. Sedimentary basin is a depression on the earth surface the can accummulated the sedimentation material through time.
However, many geologie processes are complex and result from the interaction of many, seemingly unrelated, individual factors. It is found that, unlike the basins of southern libya and. Some of the sag basins, such as the karoo, are clearly syndepositional in origin, with clear evidence that subsidence was coeval with, and exerted a strong control on, sedimentation chapter 12. Red sea gulf of aden presents new case studies and synthesises the results of recent research on the sedimentological evolution of the red sea gulf of aden rift system. Pages in category sedimentary basins of africa the following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. Basins of india sedimentary basin petroleum geology. In the deepwater beyond the 200m isobath, the sedimentary area has been estimated to be about 1. Two of these basins with distinctly different hydrologic regimes are the gulf coast basin and the palo duro basin part of the perm1an basin. At their largest, sedimentary basins can be hundreds to thousands of kilometers in horizontal dimensions and contain more than 10 15 m 3 of buried materials.
If rich hydrocarbon source rocks occur in combination with appropriate depth and duration of burial, hydrocarbon generation can occur within the basin. Remote sensing and field analysis of the palaeozoic structural style. The sirte basin province of libyasirtezelten total. Tectonic extension at divergent boundaries where continental rifting is occurring can create a nascent ocean basin leading to either an ocean or the failure of the rift. The basin developed from the late paleozoic through much of the early cretaceous, with continuous uplift that created the sirte arch. Wikimedia commons has media related to sedimentary basins of africa. Infracambrian sediments in libyan sedimentary basins request pdf. Stratigraphic nomenclature of the sedimentary basins of libya project workshop jul 252017, tripolilibya. E 48 zagros basin, iran 48 palmyra and sinjar subbasins, syriairaq 50 the mesopotamian subbasin, iraq 50,red sea and gulf of aden subbasin, saudi arabia. Cratonic basins convergence related basins strikeslip basins. Libya consists of seven sedimentary basins, namely the. Evidence from the libyan basins, authormuftah ahmid khalifa, year2016.
Cahan the text accompanying this catalog gives a very brief synopsis of the age and style of the listed sedimentary basins and is not intended to be a substantial discussion of all of. The ghadames basin is one of the most important sedimentary basins for producing oil and gas in libya. Africa covers a larger land area than the usa, europe, india and the asean nations put together. Examples of a smaller intracratonic basins are the proterozoic athabasca basin in saskatchewan and the mesozoic bowser basin in northwestern bc. The sirte basin, located in the north central part of libya, is one of four known sedimentary basins in libya. Purchase the sedimentary basins of the united states and canada, volume 5 1st edition. Executive summary the dynamics of sedimentary basins. The sedimentary basins of india, onland and offshore up to the 200m isobath, have an areal extent of about 1. Robertson basins and plays tellus sedimentary basins of. Sedimentary basins are regions of earth of longterm subsidence creating accommodation space for infilling by sediments. The subsidence can result from a variety of causes that include.
Palaeozoic petroleum systems of the murzuq basin, libya. The sirte basin is a major sedimentary basin that extends southward from the gulf of sirte in central libya. Even if the first three epsaiv bidding rounds are taken into consideration, considerable libyan acreage still remains. This chapter describes the stratigraphy and tectonic evolution of sirte basin of libya.
An evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of the sedimentary. According to energy intelligence research, in 2003 libya was the 11th largest exporter of petroleum in the. Sedimentary basins of africa part of the geology of africa pages in category sedimentary basins of africa the following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. The basic premise to explore the petroleum is the existence of sedimentary basin. Request pdf an evaluation of the hydrocarbon potential of the sedimentary basins of libya distinctive structural and stratigraphic styles, together. Four major potential source rocks have been identified in libya. Petroleum potential of the underexplored basin centers a. The sedimentary basins of the united states and canada.
The boundary for this basin is derived primar ily from the basin outline shown on frezon and finn 1988. Geol201 sedimentary basins vancouver island university. Methods and case histories held as part of the american association of petroleum geologists annual convention in new orleans in march 1985. Robertson basins and plays tellus sedimentary basins. This signifies that we still need generalists who have the broad overview and are able to evaluate the great variety of factors and pro ces ses controlling a geologie system, such as a sedimentary basin. Preliminary catalog of the sedimentary basins of the.