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- Title: Petroleum Geology of North Africa
- Author: O. S. Mc Gregor, R. T. J. Moody and C. D. Clark-Lowes
- Publisher: Geologist Society
- Pages: 157
North Africa contains some 4% of the world’s remaining oil and gas reserves, and is now one of the most active exploration areas. 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, Ubya and the western part of Egypt. 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.
The importance of the region to the petroleum industry is, of course, not reflected in the volume of geological literature available on the area, particularly that in English. This volume represents the first such attempt at a compilation of the petroleum geology of this region. The main objectives of this book are thus 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.
As the aims of this book are to encourage the use of analogues over national boundaries, we have avoided grouping the papers geographically. Instead, we have first split the papers stratigraphically into ‘Palaeozoic and sub-salt’ and ‘Mesozoic-Cenozoic’ sections. This division is justified both by the structural history of the area, which would suggest a partition at the Hercynian unconformity. with a modification to this boundary suggested by reviewing source-reservoir associations, such that discussions on the sub-salt Triassic reservoir of Algeria are most rationally included in the ‘Palaeozoic’ category. Overview papers are presented for each of the two stratigraphic sections thus defined and are followed in each case by regional papers, covering topics such as petroleum systems, stratigraphy and regional structure, and those relating to individual reservoirs, fields and play fairways. Because of its unique structural history and play types, the Atlas region is assigned a separate sub-section within the Mesozoic-Cenozoic category.