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Reggane Basin
Libya Basin
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2046 Upper Egypt Basin
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Aaiun-Tarfaya Basin

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Reguibate Uplift

2068 Egypt

Western Sahara Murzuk Basin

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Thiemboka Uplift
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Hoggar

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North Red Sea

Shield

Nubian Uplift

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EXPLANATION Chad
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Taoudeni Basin

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South Red Sea Shield

Geologic Province Outline
7091

Provinces assessed by the USGS World Petroleum Assessment 2000 Mali

Senegal
Khartoum
Iullemmeden Niger
Country Boundary Chad 7087
7055
7066 16
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Eritrea

Sudan
Senegal Chad

7013Senegal
Western Nubian Shield

7151

Gambia

Burkina Faso

12 Guinea-Bissau Nigerian Massive

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7121 Amhara Plateau

Djibouti
Baffa
Guinea 7161

7105 Volta

Benin Nigeria Somalia

Ethiopia
Undiscovered Oil by Geologic Province
West African Shield Sud
50000 Sierra Leone Togo
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Future* Oil by Assessed Geologic Province
Ghana
8 8
7114 60000
Benue

40000 Cote d'Ivoire

Million barrels of oil (MMBO)

West African Coastal

7136
50000
Liberia Central African Republic

Million Barrels of Oil

30000 Cameroon
7255
Somali 40000
7183
Somali Deep Sea
7173
Niger Delta Nigeria 7263
Gulf of Guinea
20000 30000
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4 7192

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20000
10000

East Zaire Precambrian Belt

10000

7192 7203 2043 2054 2071 2056 2048 7183 2058 7013 7303
ATLANTIC OCEAN Equatorial Guinea
Uganda

Kenya 0
Geologic Province Code
Sao Tome and Principe
0 60 7192 7203 2043 2054 2071 2056 2048 7183 2058 7013 7303

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Democratic Republic of the Congo 7231
7211

Gabon
Rwanda

Zaire

7225
Republic of the Congo
Burundi

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Undiscovered Gas by Geologic Province

West-central
150000
East African Rift
Coastal
7246
7203
Tanzania
Future* Gas by Geologic Province
Coastal
Billion cubic feet of gas (BCFG)

Tanzania
250000

INTRODUCTION
7273
100000

Billion Cubic Feet of Gas (BCFG)

This digitally compiled map includes oil and gas field centerpoints and
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geologic provinces of Africa with some of these components extended into

geographically adjacent areas. This digital compilation is an interim product of

the U.S. Geological Survey's World Energy Project (WEP) and part of a series on Seychelles

CD-ROM. 150000

50000 The goal of the WEP is to assess the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil

and gas resources of the world. Results of this assessment were reported in the

World Petroleum Assessment 2000 - Description and Results (see references). Seychelles
100000
The first version of this CD-ROM was published in 1997 (see Persits and others, 7417

1997). There are several reasons to issue version 2.0:

1. ESRI s ArcView shape files were in Robinson projection. This projection in -12 -12
0 Luffillian Arch 50000
ArcView is an implementation that differs from one used in workstation ArcInfo Comoros
7192 7203 2071 2056 2054 2043 7183 2058 2048 7303 7013 7291
and therefore shows different values. This version 2.0 uses all the spatial data in
Angola
Geologic Province Code Geographic coordinates projected "on-the-fly" into Mercator projection.
Malawi
2. The new more powerful ESRI's ArcGIS 8.1 software available now. This
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version provides the data both in ArcGIS 8.1 and ArcView 3.2 formats.
Zambia 7192 2058 7203 2056 2071 2043 2054 2048 7183 7303 7013
3. Some off-shore province boundaries are now based on the 4000 meters
Geologic Province Code
bathymetric contour.

4. Geologic Province ArcInfo coverage and ArcView shape file were populated

by geologic description and undiscovered oil and gas resources values as result

of publication the World Petroleum Assessment 2000 - Description and Results -16 -16
5. The new advanced design was developed by the USGS World Energy Team Etosha

for publishing digital geologic maps on CD-ROMs. 7285

Geologic province boundaries for Africa were delineated using data from different

geologic maps, publications, and other tectonic and geographic data. Each

Undiscovered Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) by Geologic Province province was assigned a unique number; the first digit is the region number.

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Centerpoints of oil and gas fields are shown and were plotted with permission

from Petroconsultants International Data Corporation, 1996 worldwide oil and Madagascar
Zimbabwe
Future* Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) by Geologic Province
gas field database. Morondava 7381

7373 10000
Allocation of field data to geologic provinces provided a ranking of the provinces
Million barrels of NGL (MMBNGL)

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by total known petroleum volume (see Klett and others, 1997). The WEP further Tamatave
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6000
characterizes the geologic provinces by petroleum system and assessment units

Million barrels of NGL (MMBONGL)

in order to assess the undiscovered petroleum volume.
8000
Mozambique 7396
Specific details of map and data sources, and the procedure used in the
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compilation of this geologic map of Africa are given in the metadata files and
4000 Damer Belt
described briefly in the text below. Kalahari

7325 6000
7311
Madagascar
Geologic Province ArcInfo coverage and ArcView shape file on this

CD-ROM were populated with undiscovered petroleum data as the

Mozambique Coastal
2000 result of USGS World Petroleum Assessment 2000 (see DDS-60 by Botswana 4000
7343
USGS). This map is intended to show Geologic Provinces with
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graphs ranking them by petroleum resources. Namibia E. Kalahari Precambrian Belt

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This map was compiled using Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
INDIAN OCEAN 2000

(ESRI) ARC/INFO software. Political boundaries and cartographic

7192 7203 2071 2054 2056 2043 2058 7183 7303 2048 7013
representations are used, with permission, from ESRI's ArcWorld 1:3M digital
Geologic Province Code
coverages, have no political significance, and are displayed for general reference 0
Swaziland
only. 7192 2058 7203 2071 2054 2056 2043 7183 2048 7303 7013

Geologic Province Code

DATA PROCESSING STEPS

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Data processing steps are similar to ones described on Surface Geology

Map on this CD-ROM.

REFERENCES
Orange River

Coastal Lesotho

1. Commission for the Geologic Map of the World, UNESCO-ASGU,1990, Carte

7303 Karoo
Geologique Internationale de lÕAfrique: Paris, France, 1:5,000,000, 6 sheets.
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2. Commission for the Geologic Map of the World/UNESCO-ASGU,1990, Carte
Undiscovered Petroleum by Geologic Province
Tectonique Internationale de lÕAfrique: Paris, France, 1:5,000,000, 9 sheets. South Africa
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3. Klett, T. R,. Ahlbrandt, T. S., Schmoker, J. W., and Dolton, G. L., 1997, Madagascar Offshore
Future* Petroleum by Geologic Province
Ranking of the world's oil and gas provinces by known petroleum volumes: U.S. 7403

Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-463, one CD-ROM.

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Million barrels of oil equivalent

4. U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Assessment Team, 2000, World

60000 Petroleum Assessment 2000 - Description and Results: US Geological Survey

Digital Data Series DDS-60 Multi-Disc Set.

Million barrels of oil equivalent

5. Persits, F., Ahlbrandt, T., Tuttle, M., Charpentier, R., Brownfield, M., and
(MMBOE).

Takahashi, K., 1997, Map showing geology, oil and gas fields, and geological South African Coastal
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40000
provinces of Africa: USGS Open-File Report 97-470A.

(MMBOE)
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20000

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Geologic Province Code 0

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Geologic Province Code

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* Future = Remaining + Undiscovered

0 550 1,100 1,650 2,200

Miles

0 840 1,680 2,520 3,360

Projection - Mercator

False Easting: 0.000000

Kilometers
False Northing: 0.000000

Central Meridian: 25.000000

Standard Parallel: 0.000000

MAP SHOWING OIL AND GAS FIELDS AND GEOLOGIC PROVINCES OF AFRICA
Digitally compiled by Feliks M. Persits, Thomas S. Ahlbrandt, Michele L. Tuttle, Ronald R. Charpentier, Michael E. Brownfield, and Kenneth I. Takahashi

2001