Petroleum geology of Arabian Peninsula
Petroleum activities in the Arabian Peninsula show new trends in the 1980s. Petroleum exploration is intensified and huge discoveries are anticipated. A giant Jurassic gas field along the coast of the Arabian Gulf discovered recently tops 150 tcf, the largest single reserve ever. Other giant oil fields in the area are undergoing expansion in development and productivity. Today, the Peninsula, with a total area that surpasses one million square miles, produces and exports more oil and gas and has greater reserves than any other area in the world. The excellent reservoir rocks are located in the Jurassic and Cretaceous formations between the Arabian Shield and the Tethyan Seaway. They represent porous and permeable marine cyclical beds sealed by impervious shales and anhydrites. Reservoir sedimentology was affected by 2 orogenies during late Cretaceous and Pliocene time portrayed by the Cratonic area to the southwest and the orthogeosynclinal area to the northeast. The eastern part was little deformed by these movements.
- OSTI ID:
- 5541289
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8206143-
- Journal Information:
- Am. Assoc. Pet. Geol., Bull.; (United States), Vol. 66:5; Conference: American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists annual convention, Calgary, Canada, 27 Jun 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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