The Middle East: Regional Geology and Petroleum Resources

Abu Dhabi API gravity API oil Arabian Plate Asmari b/d oil basin belt Beydoun brls Cambrian carbonate reservoir central clastics companies continental cumulative production deposits discovered drilled Dunnington eastern Eocene evaporites exploration facies fault formation gas reserves Geol geology Gulf of Aden Haushi Iran Iranian Iraq Kuwait Late Cretaceous Levant Fracture limestone located Lower Cretaceous Maestrichtian margin Mesozoic Middle Cretaceous Middle East Miocene Mishrif northern offshore discovery oil and gas oil gravity oil production oilfield Oligocene onshore ophiolite outcrop Paleocene Paleozoic Palmyrid Permian Permian Khuff Petroleum District Qatar recoverable oil reserves recoverable reserves Red Sea region reserves are estimated reserves were estimated rift sandstone Sarvak Saudi Arabia sediments sequence shales Shuaiba source rocks South Yemen southern stream structure subduction sulphur SW Iran Syria tectonic Triassic Turkey Turonian Ultimately recoverable uplift Upper Cretaceous Upper Jurassic Upper Jurassic Arab volcanic Zagros zone