Oil & Gas Fields of Libya Digital Atlas

A non-exclusive GIS product completely revised 2011

Prepared by: Dr D D Clark-Lowes and Dr D Hallett in collaboration with the Energy and Geoscience Institute of the University of Utah

 

Based upon a 2008 Atlas and Report entitled: ‘Oil Reserves of Libya, Past Present and Future’, this 2011 release comprises a GIS version of the Atlas including all gas as well as oil fields and discoveries with information updated to end 2009

 

A fully revised GIS version of the Atlas was first released in April 2010 and a new revision including all gas fields and discoveries and incorporating all results to end 2009 was released February 2011.

 

General context

• Libya is the world’s 17th largest oil producer with current daily oil production of more than 1.8 million barrels per day and is a significant gas producer which is increasingly seen as playing a vital role in the future supply of gas to Europe.
• The Libyan National Oil Corporation is the world’s 10th largest oil company (based on published oil reserves figures).
• More than 10 of the world’s 20 largest publicly quoted oil companies currently hold petroleum permits in Libya.
• Libya offers considerable opportunities in exploration and development arenas for companies wishing to participate in production in this oil-rich Mediterranean country where year on year production has increased most years since 2002.
• With a history of numerous reports on the petroleum provinces of Libya, Nubian Consulting had established a sound foundation on which to build this country-wide oil and gas fields atlas which is based on a wealth of data and the experience of the authors obtained through lifetime involvement in Libyan petroleum geology.
• EGI at the University of Utah has an unchallenged record of building high performance Geoscience GIS products; the institute shares with Nubian Consulting a long history of involvement in the Libyan oil sector.

 

Report highlights

• With more than 400 oil and gas fields and discoveries in total, Libya has just under 250 oil fields that remain undeveloped. Although some of these are small and others problematic, Nubian Consulting’s work has highgraded more than 50 of these undeveloped oil fields, located throughout the petroleum provinces of the country, that represent important field development targets, with production capacity of billions of barrels.
• There are 12 non associated gas fields with more than 100 BCF ORR each, eight of which lie in the offshore Pelagian basin, that await development.
• The highgraded fields are illustrated in a digital Oil & Gas Fields Atlas which describes all of Libya’s oil and gas fields and discoveries and gives a newly calculated assessment of STOIIP and GIIP and originally recoverable reserves. In addition a description is given of the geological context and petroleum systems, and an estimate is made of the potential EOR increment of the oil accumulations.
• In the case of developed fields, additional information includes estimates of remaining recoverable reserves (conventional and EOR), and an account of infrastructure, production procedures and the pipeline system and terminal utilised.

 

Report format

• The GIS (ArcGIS) version comprises a system built around an interface map of Libya with data linked to all of Libya's oil and gas fields and discoveries and to the 14 defined petroleum systems
• Subscribers to the GIS product are also entitled to hard copy report; this comprises three atlas volumes (double A3 portrait layout), twelve petroleum province montages and a text volume (at cost of reproduction). The hard copy report comes with a pdf version and associated datafiles

 

Report Pricing Structure

• We have developed a report pricing structure for:
• Corporate Associates and non Corporate Associates of EGI
• existing purchasers of the pre GIS version wishing to upgrade to the GIS version
• non oil company parties requiring consultancy advice on Libyan oil and gas fields

 

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