Pakistan has unventured regions, untested plays

Journal Article · Mon Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 1998 · Oil and Gas Journal

OSTI ID:556881

Quadri, V N; Quadri, S M.J.G. ^[1]

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1. International Consultants, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)

Quantitative numerical models for integrating known geological, geophysical, and geochemical processes, including 3D basin simulation and visualization, are important innovations that are helping to reduce the cost of exploration. It is unfortunate that against this background, in Pakistan there still exist some unventured sedimentary basins and untested plays. This article discusses in some detail one of the unventured regions, the Peshawar basin, and an untested play area, the Punjab platform zone. The intermontane Peshawar basin lies immediately north of Potwar-Kohat basin, the latter the site of several oilfields. Source rocks for gas, condensate, and possibly oil exist in the Sulaiman Range located in the Punjab zone.

• OSTI ID: 556881
• Journal Information: Oil and Gas Journal, Vol. 96, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: 5 Jan 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

03 NATURAL GAS
02 PETROLEUM
NATURAL GAS DEPOSITS
PETROLEUM DEPOSITS
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
PAKISTAN
EXPLORATION
OIL FIELDS
SOURCE ROCKS
GAS CONDENSATES
NATURAL GAS
PETROLEUM
STRATIGRAPHY
SEISMIC SURVEYS