Petroleum Geology of North Africa

The main objectives of this book are to increase the level of documentation towards that appropriate for such major petroleum provinces and to facilitate the application of analogues between North African countries and beyond.
This volume represents the first attempt at a compilation of the petroleum geology of North Africa, documenting a series of papers collected on the petroleum geology of Morocco, Algeria,Tunisia, Libya and the western part of EgySection

North Africa contains some 4% of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves, and is now one of the most active exploration areas.
As the aims of this book are to encourage the use of analogues over national boundaries, papers we are grouped the geographically.

Contents

• Introduction
• Palaeozoic petroleum systems of North Africa
• Exploration history of the Palaeozoic petroleum systems of North Africa
• Palaeozoic lithofacies correlatives and sequence stratigraphy of the Saharan Platform, Algeria
• Geology and hydrocarbon occurrences in the Ghadames Basin, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya
• An investigation of the thermal history of the Ahnet and Reggane Basins, Central Algeria, and the consequences for hydrocarbon generation and accumulation



• Lower Palaeozoic reservoirs of North Africa
• Sedimentological and diagenetic controls on Cambro-Ordovician reservoir quality in the southern Hassi Messaoud area (Saharan Platform, Algeria)
• Controls on hydrocarbon occurrence and productivity in the F6 reservoir, Tin Fouyé-Tabankort area, NW Illizi Basin
• Sedimentological evolution of the Givetian-Eifelian (F3) sand bar of the West Alrar field, Illizi Basin, Algeria



• Mesozoic and Cenozoic petroleum systems of North Africa
• Mesozoic rifting and basin inversion along the northern African Tethyan margin: an overview
• Late Permian to Recent magmatic activity on the African-Arabian margin of Tethys
• Tectonic controls on the petroleum geology of NE Africa
• An overview of the petroleum systems of Morocco


• Application of fault seal analysis techniques in the Western Desert, Egypt
• Trap architecture of the Early Cretaceous Sarir Sandstone in the eastern Sirt Basin, Libya
• The influence of platform morphology and sea level on the development of a carbonate sequence: the Harash Formation, Eastern Sirt Basin, Libya
• Regional depositional setting and pore network systems of the El Garia Formation (Metlaoui Group, Lower Eocene), offshore Tunisia
• Basin evolution and deposition during the Early Paleogene in Tunisia


• The thin-skinned style of the South Atlas Front in Central Algeria
• The structural evolution of the Zaghouan-Ressas Structural Belt, northern Tunisia
• Critical factors in the exploration of an Atlas intramontane basin; the Western Hodna Basin of northern Algeria