The taoudeni basin mauritania mali, west africa was formed as a result of pre. The obtained apatite fission track aft ages range between 236 and 90 ma, with mean track lengths between 11. On generating a geological model for hydrogen gas in the southern taoudenni megabasin bourakebougou area, mali denis briere1, tomasz jerzykiewicz2, and wojciech sliwinski3. Presentation mode open print download current view. The groundwater flow system in the country can best be described as two interconnected regional systems. Basins and major watersheds in minnesota basins cedar river des moines river lake superior lower mississippi river minnesota river missouri river rainy river red river of the north st. The southern boundary is the leo shield, the mauritanide fold belt occurs to the west, and the so. Genesis and geodynamic evolution of the taoudeni cratonic. Solid hydrocarbons in proterozoic dolomites, taoudeni basin, mauritania article pdf available in journal of petroleum geology 391 january 2016 with 1,084 reads how we measure reads. The stromatolitic carbonates are dolomitized and contain solid hydrocarbons pyrobitumen. As mauritania looks toward becoming an oil producing country for the first time in early 2006, a host of exploration companies has. To the north and northwest, it is bounded by the basement of the reguibat shield. Assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the. Assessment of the undiscovered oil and gas of the senegal.
At the downstream end of the river basin is the lower rufiji floodplain and the rufiji delta where iucn is working with the. S trending variscan belt separating the cratonic taoudeni basin in the east from the atlantic coastal basin in the west. Volume 24 issue 3 journal of foraminiferal research. This paper analyses the paleogene and neogene evolution of the kutai basin using a combination of geophysical and. The vindhyan basin is a classic example of proterozoic intracontinental basin that developed in the central part of the indian shield along with several other basins such as cuddapah, chattisgarh, etc. In summary, in the context of the timing in late cretaceous inundation, case i shows the best temporal matches between rates of base level change and paleoenvironment indicators, with temporal discrepancies taoudeni basin, sirte basin, and amguid spur, while case is best matches paleogeography constraints in the sirte basin and. Structural controls on the evolution of the kutai basin, east. The geological key factors and geological processes controlled the type of hydrocarbon accumulations. The data selection and validation process for the mekong river basin study involved three steps. Location of taoudeni sedimentary basin taoudeni basin is the largest sedimentary basin of upper precambrian and palaeozoic age in africa. Pdf reos geochronology of a mesoproterozoic sedimentary. It continued to subside until the midpalaeozoicage, when hercynian deformation and uplift occurred. The salt is dug by hand from the bed of an ancient salt lake, cut into slabs, and transported either by truck or by camel to timbuktu. This page was last edited on 21 february 2019, at 09.
View enhanced pdf access article on wiley online library html view download pdf for offline viewing. The study was conducted by reclamation in collaboration with the seven basin states and a broad range of stakeholders including tribes, agricultural users, purveyors of municipal and industrial water, power users, and conservation and recreation groups. Raven resources group acquires exploration license in. Pdf solid hydrocarbons in proterozoic dolomites, taoudeni basin. Cameroon douala exploration basin report wood mackenzie. The murzuq basin is a large intracratonic sag basin located in southwestern libya. Tawdenni is a remote salt mining center in the desert region of northern mali, 664 km 4 mi north of timbuktu. Most of the early discoveries in the basin were gas with small volumes of associated liquids, and these remained undeveloped for decades due to the lack of a. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Synthetic aperture radar data were used to interpret. Although mississippi valleytype mvt deposits have not been recognized in mauritania there are permissive tracts for these deposits in the regionally extensive proterozoic carbonate rocks of the taoudeni basin.
The images are hyperlinks and will open up a separate window with a high resolution pdf image of the map. This study aimed to understand a complex geochemical mechanism controlling the mineralization process in the taoudeni basin. In the 1970s, geologists became aware that the taoudeni basin possesses considerable quantities of gas and liquid petroleum resembling the petroleumrich provinces in algeria, niger, sudan, and libya, yet during the following three decades, it remained a last extraction frontier, largely unexplored. The predominantly siliciclastic upper proterozoic sediments of the taoudeni basin have. Muted isotopic variability, facies correlation, and global isotopic trends. Adding to the complex security mix is the fact that multinational companies are exploring petroleum reserves in malis taoudeni basin. Hydrocarbon generation conditions and exploration potential of the taoudeni basin, mauritania article in petroleum science 61. Multidisciplinary approch to improve the knowledge of. It extends northwestward into the niger valley, northward to the jos massif and northeastward into lafia. Protec ng natural habitat tribasin nrd works with district landowners to enroll their center pivot corners in conservation programs, in which they plant the corners to native grass and grow wild game birds, like pheasant and quail.
Sirte basin, central libya by salah a shaniba a thesis presented to the faculty of the graduate school of the missouri university of science and technology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree master of science in geology and geophysics 2012 approved by wan yang, advisor mohamed g. Relief the vast synclinal basin of taoudeni, bounded by the adrar, tagant, and. The water evaluation and planning tool weap has been developed for water management planning and water allocation, integrating information on water supply, demand and cost. It stretches across mali, mauritania and the two guineas and overlaps slightly into algeria, senegal, sierra leon and burkina faso fig. Diagenesis of the upper proterozoic siliciclastic sediments of the. The taoudeni basin is a typical steady intracratonic basin. Cameroons douala basin has long been seen as the countrys secondary exploration focus, with production and reserves subordinate to cameroons section of the niger delta basin fields. Het taoudenni bekken is het grootste sedimentaire bekken in noordwestelijk afrika, en is gevormd tijdens het lateproterozoicum. Towards a palaeoecological model of the mesoproterozoic. This plain is occasionally interrupted by low mesas. Pdf documents opened from your browser may not display or print as intended. Geological exploration in murzuq basin 1st edition.
For more information on this program, please contact tribasin nrd at 308 9956688 or 18779956688. Aqueduct metadata document mekong river basin study. Proterozoic stromatolitic limestone in the oil window. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license. Geological survey editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Chemostratigraphy of the late mesoproterozoic atar group, taoudeni basin, mauritania. Hydrocarbon generation conditions and exploration potential.
Pdf the taoudeni basin mauritania mali, west africa was formed as a. The sirte basin province of libyasirtezelten total. Airborne magnetic depth estimates reveal two primary groundwater basins. We distinguish the taoudeni basin located in the center. Pdf chemostratigraphy of the late mesoproterozoic atar. Africa named after the taoudeni village in northern mali. On generating a geological model for hydrogen gas in the. Exploration efforts started in this vast and remote saharan region already in 1957 and 60 exploratory wells have been drilled to date, resulting in over 20 discoveries with around 4,000 million barrels of oil in place.
In the sahel region in africa, and in most arid regions, groundwater is the crucial source for water supply since surface water is scarce. The late proterozoic bakoye 3 formation is a predominantly aeolian unit deposited in the glacially influenced cratonic taoudeni basin of western africa. The colorado river basin study was released in december 2012. In the taoudeni basin, the glacial drift corresponds to a megasequence that mainly reflects an overall deglaciation history.
This page was last edited on 4 january 2018, at 20. National and global petroleum assessment assessment of. It covers large parts of the west african craton in mauritania and mali. Pdf the taoudenni basin, north africas largest sedimentary basin, is located in western mauritania, northern mali and southwestern algeria. Hydrogeologic maps were constructed for the islamic republic of mauritania. The taoudeni basin in mauritania, mali, algeria, burkina faso, guinea, senegal and guineabissau began to form as a foreland basin to the surrounding mobile beltsa process that continued into the paleozoic. Dynamic topography and eustasy controlled the paleogeographic.
Chapter 11 the record of neoproterozoic glaciation in the. Petroleum systems of the taoudeni basin, west africa. The taoudeni basin is a major geological formation in west africa named after the taoudenni village in northern mali. How oil exploration is adding to malis security woes. It stretches from west to east about 700 kilometres 430 mi and covers about 100,000 square kilometres 39,000 sq mi, mostly in algeria but with a western. A poor basin design can increase the presence of detrimental pump conditions such as turbulence, turbidity, aeration bubbles, and solids buildup. Synopsis of water resources of the ipswich river basin. A test basin was constructed having dimensions related to the basin width in accordance with those developed for the basin in the earlier study z. Paleozoic basins in west africa and the mauritanide thrust belt paleozoic basins in west africa and the mauritanide thrust belt villeneuve, michel 20051001 00. The sokoto basin nigerian sector of the iullemmeden basin. Download fulltext pdf petroleum systems of the taoudeni basin, west africa article pdf available in petroleum science 51.
Taoudeni basin with minimal evidence for highamplitude sea level changeis consistent with inferences of late mesoproterozoic highstand conditions in a global greenhouse climate. Turbulence can cause problems for pumps by shifting mount components. The basin stretches from malis northern borders with. Implications for basin wide correlations and reos organicrich. Permissive tracts for undiscovered mvt pbznag deposits in the proterozoic carbonate units are supported by the occurrences of mvt mineral and alteration assemblages, presence of. Depositional and tectonic controls on architecture of the. There are six sets of potential source rocks and five regional unconformable surfaces of the infracambrian and paleozoic developed in the basin. The sirte basin province is characterized by one dominant petroleum system, the sirtezelten, which is subdi vided into four assessment units. Download the latest version of adobe reader, free of charge. The vindhyan basin directorate general of hydrocarbons.
The taoudeni is the largest sedimentary syncline basin in northwest africa, formed during the midlate proterozoic. The taoudeni basin is a major geological formation in west africa, named after the taoudenni. The basin is bounded to the south by the niger delta basin hinge line. Destruc tion of hab itat and illegal collec tion of turtles for the pet trade have caused pop ula tions to dwindle. Taoudeni basin cover international atomic energy agency. Pdf petroleum systems of the taoudeni basin, west africa. Geodynamics and petroleum geology of the taoudenni basin this regional report provides unique insights and data to assist oil companies to reduce their hydrocarbon exploration risks for the intracratonic taoudenni basin of mali and mauritania.
Managing ecosystems, transforming landscapes, creating buffers 2 understanding the tana basin 2. Taoudeni basin west africa and relation to diabase emplacement. A thousand randomly distributed groundwater samples acquired from different aquifers were used for this research. It covers western niger and parts of algeria, mali and nigeria. I will try to follow syntax of qbasic as close as i can. This could have introduced an accuracy which is beyond the original data. Raven resources group acquires exploration license in prospective taoudeni basin. Mar 30, 2008 the taoudeni basin is a typical steady intracratonic basin. The taoudeni basin is one of the major structural units of the western african craton. The analysed 22 samples were collected along the mauritanides, a n. Implications for the state of stress in the frontal regions of thrust wedges. The ecology of the upper precambrian stromatolites of adrar is similar to that of the present stromatolites.
Mali is a landlocked nation in west africa, located southwest of algeria, extending southwest from the southern sahara desert through the sahel to the sudanian savanna zone. The basin data is derived from a lower resolution grid which has been upsampled using gmt. Late proterozoic periglacial aeolian deposits on the west. Implications for basin wide correlations and reos organicrich sediments systematics. Oil, gas, jihadism and militarization in the taoudeni.
Water free fulltext assessing groundwater mineralization. The sirte basin also referred to as sirt basin is a late mesozoic and tertiary continental rift, triple junction, in northern africa that borders a relati vely stable p aleo. Pdf neoproterozoic glaciomarine and cap dolostone facies. Geodynamics and petroleum geology of the taoudenni basin getech. Neoproterozoic atar group, which is composed of facies varying from stromatolite. Rufiji river basin upstream downstream linkages report of. Geological survey fact sheet 20163003 march 2016 printed on recycled paper. Tectonosedimentary subdivisions in the neoproterozoic to. Based on the distribution of effective source rocks in the taoudeni basin, combined with the structure characteristics of the basin and the distribution characteristics of reservoir beds, two petroleum systems are recognized in the basin. I am developing this interpreter for selflearning purposes,dont take it serious. New evidence of anomalous vertical movements along the. The east ern edge of the basin is separated from the taoudeni basin by precambrian rocks of the mauritanide mountains that were uplifted during the late paleozoic hercynian orogeny figs.
Find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Explorers prepare to evaluate taoudeni basin in mali. This page bundles the available data for the taoudeni basin in the africa. The neoproterozoic and palaeozoic taoudeni basin forms the flatlying and unmetamorphosed sedimentary cover of the west african craton. Also known as the bove basin further south, the taoudeni basin is a slightly dipping sag basin filled with two to three kilometers of.
The rufiji river basin in southern tanzania is the largest in the country and the most important for many activities, goods and services associated with water and its uses. The tindouf basin is a major sedimentary basin in west africa, to the south of the little atlas region, morocco. In the western part of this basin, the char group and the lower part of the atar group make up a 400mthick neoproterozoic siliciclastic succession which rests on the palaeoproterozoic metamorphic and granitic basement. We used seismic stratigraphic correlation to recover the denudation thickness of formations at a particular well location. Weigh ing only 4 ounces, the bog turtle is one of the rarest turtles in north america and is federally listed as a threat ened species.
A hydrogeologic study was conducted to support mineralresource assessment activities in mauritania, africa. Such characteristics are inconsistent with suggestions of a timeequivalency with glaciogenic strata of. Geology and petroleum resource assessment of onshore northwestern africa by james a. Explorers prepare to evaluate taoudeni basin in mali, mauritania. The anambra basin is situated west of the lower benue trough and is often considered youngest formation of the benue trough. The iullemmeden basin is a major subsaharan inland basin in west africa, extending about 1,000 kilometres 620 mi north to south and 800 kilometres 500 mi east to west. It is of considerable interest due to its possible reserves of oil. Basin is the precambrian reguibate shield in morocco, and the southern limit is the bove basin of guinea fig. The study zones included in the iaeasupported project raf7011 are presented as red ellipses. Read volume 24 issue 3 of journal of foraminiferal research. Location of the black warrior basin province in northwestern alabama and northeastern mississippi, published in the usgs report entitled, geologic assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the black warrior basin province of alabama and mississippi. Geology and petroleum resource assessment of onshore.
Geological exploration in murzuq basin sciencedirect. The taoudeni basin is a major geological formation in west africa, named after the taoudenni village in northern mali. Hydrocarbons in the taoudeni basin are derived from source rocks in the meso. The taoudeni basin is a typical and steady intracratonic basin in mauritania, northwest africa. It consists predominantly of a gently undulating plain with an average elevation varying from 250 to 400 m above sealevel. The bakoye 3 can be divided into five distal units, two proximal units, and a local. Based on the distribution of effective source rocks in the taoudeni basin, combined. National and global petroleum assessment assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources of the taoudeni basin province, mali and mauritania, 2015 u. Their wide distribution, from atar to the algerian frontier, involves the existence in western africa, in late precambrian time, of a large shallow.
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