Geology and petroleum resources of north-central and northeastern Africa

Total petroleum systems of the Illizi Province, Algeria and Libya; Tanezzuft-Illizi

“…Deformational events in the region, most of them minor, are recorded by unconformities reflecting basin tilting, uplift, and erosion of intracratonic structural axes at various times throughout the Phanerozoic. The main deformational events occurred in the Precambrian to Early Cambrian (Pan African event), Late Silurian to Early Devonian, Late Devonian (Frasnian event), Carboniferous to Permian (Hercynian event), Early Jurassic, Early Cretaceous (Aptian, Austrian event), Late Cretaceous, and Tertiary (Eocene to Oligocene, Pyrenean event) (Aliev and others, 1971;Peterson, 1985;Boudjema, 1987;van de Weerd and Ware, 1994).…”

Regional geology and hydrocarbon resource potential, the Mediterranean Sea region

“…1): 1) the offshore areas of North Africa beyond the 300 m (1,000 ft) water depth; 2) the entire offshore marine area in the remainder of the Mediterranean; and 3) the onshore areas of Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and the Balearic Islands. U.S. Geological Survey hydrocarbon resource assessments of the onshore petroleum basins of North Africa, and the shelf areas of less than 300 m (1,000 ft) water depth, are included in Peterson (1985Peterson ( ,1986. The latter reports also cover the offshore Pelagian Shelf of Tunisia and northwestern Libya, and the Nile Delta of Egypt.…”

“…The main North African petroleum basins are on the North African or Sahara platform, which lies between the uplifts in southern Algeria, Libya, and Egypt on the south and the Mediterranean Tethys geosyncline on the north (Peterson, 1985). Pertinent works on the structural geology and structural history of north Africa include the following: Said (1981), Conant and Goudarzi (1967), Klitsch (1968), Sander (1968), Youssef (1968), Goudarzi (1970Goudarzi ( ,1980, Burollet (1971), others (1971,1978), Schurmann (1971), Bishop (1975), El Shazly (1977, Salaj (1978), Brown (1980), El-Etr and Moustafa (1980), and Parsons and others (1980).…”

“…Reviews on the stratigraphy and sedimentary fades of North Africa and adjacent areas include those of Conant and Goudarzi (1967); Klitzsch (1968); Bartov and others (1972); Bishop (1975); Bein and Gvirtzman (1977); Beydoun (1977); El Shazly (1977); Burollet and others (1978); Salaj (1978); Nathan (1978); Mart and Gai (1982); Sail and Bein (1982); Dixon and Robertson (1974); Peterson (1985Peterson ( ,1986; Canerot and others (1986); Hirsch and Picard (1988); Kuhnt and others (1990);and May (1991).…”

“…This report does not include the offshore Nile Delta or the offshore Pelagian platform areas, which were assessed earlier (Peterson, 1985(Peterson, ,1986. These assessment reports included the onshore basins of northern Africa and the offshore shelf areas out to 1,000 ft (300 m) water depth.…”