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    Block 2B in offshore Kenya has potential analogues to petroleum systems in Sudan and the East African Rift System in Uganda and Kenya. The document discusses the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of Block 2B and surrounding areas. It examines key elements of petroleum systems analogous to Sudan and the East African Rift, and how the tectonic history of rifting and fault movement influenced the southern Anza Basin. Cretaceous source rocks in the region have generated billions of barrels of oil in Sudan and show good source potential but are more deeply buried in the southern Anza Basin. Trap timing and preservation will be important factors for any accumulations from Cretaceous sources in the southern An

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    Block 2B in offshore Kenya has potential analogues to petroleum systems in Sudan and the East African Rift System in Uganda and Kenya. The document discusses the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of Block 2B and surrounding areas. It examines key elements of petroleum systems analogous to Sudan and the East African Rift, and how the tectonic history of rifting and fault movement influenced the southern Anza Basin. Cretaceous source rocks in the region have generated billions of barrels of oil in Sudan and show good source potential but are more deeply buried in the southern Anza Basin. Trap timing and preservation will be important factors for any accumulations from Cretaceous sources in the southern An

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    Block 2B in offshore Kenya has potential analogues to petroleum systems in Sudan and the East African Rift System in Uganda and Kenya. The document discusses the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of Block 2B and surrounding areas. It examines key elements of petroleum systems analogous to Sudan and the East African Rift, and how the tectonic history of rifting and fault movement influenced the southern Anza Basin. Cretaceous source rocks in the region have generated billions of barrels of oil in Sudan and show good source potential but are more deeply buried in the southern Anza Basin. Trap timing and preservation will be important factors for any accumulations from Cretaceous sources in the southern An

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    Block 2B in offshore Kenya has potential analogues to petroleum systems in Sudan and the East African Rift System in Uganda and Kenya. The document discusses the geological, geochemical, and geophysical characteristics of Block 2B and surrounding areas. It examines key elements of petroleum systems analogous to Sudan and the East African Rift, and how the tectonic history of rifting and fault movement influenced the southern Anza Basin. Cretaceous source rocks in the region have generated billions of barrels of oil in Sudan and show good source potential but are more deeply buried in the southern Anza Basin. Trap timing and preservation will be important factors for any accumulations from Cretaceous sources in the southern An

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    Petroleum Systems of Block 2B, Southern Anza Basin, Offshore Kenya

    A geological, geochemical and geophysical overview of Kenya Block 2B and the importance of the Cretaceous and Tertiary depositional environments and tectonic history.
    Block 2B in Kenya has two possible analogues in the Sudanese Cretaceous Rifts and the Ugandan and Kenyan arms of the Tertiary age East African Rift System, The similarities between these areas and the southern Anza basin will be explored and the relevance of each explained. Key elements of petroleum systems analogous to each area are thoroughly examined in the context of the southern Anza Basin palaeogeography and tectonics, and the continual movement along the impressive and basin-defining Lagh-Bogal fault.
    By: Chris Lewis, VP-Exploration, Lion Petroleum

    The southern Anza Basin is the easternmost extent of the Cretaceous age Central African Rift System (CARS). This rift system extends west into Sudan, Chad, Niger and Nigeria and accounts for several billions of barrels of oil discovered as predominantly part of a Cretaceous petroleum system:

    This rift system in Sudan formed the Muglad and Melut basins, which alone account for the discovery of almost 7 billion barrels of reserves, sourced mainly from Cretaceous lacustrine shales.

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    Comparison of Hydrocarbon oils from Sudan and Anza

    Section location map

    Correlation Location Map

    Drilling within the Anza Basin has encountered similar Cretaceous lacustrine shales with very good source potential in some areas. For example, the Sirius-1 well encountered a rich Lower Cretaceous source with TOC up to 6%.

    However in the southern Anza these source rocks appear more deeply buried than their counterparts in Sudan (only 3 wells have actually penetrated the Lower Cretaceous in the Anza Graben), due to the structural overprint of the Lamu Embayment in the south and progressive deepening of the Cretaceous sediments. This would appear to in part explain the increasing presence of gas shows in wells drilled in the Anza Basin as one moves from north to south (figure 1) While this clearly increases the gas risk associated with this play, these source rocks have very good petroleum potential and this petroleum system should not be dismissed. A critical factor to consider in evaluating Cretaceous targets will be related to trap timing, reactivation and migration. Oil will certainly have been generated in the southern Anza from Cretaceous source rocks, however the preservation of accumulations during later extension will be key.

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