Somalia Posted November 17, 2011 Please, do not ruin this thread with the usual my dad is better than your dad, I beg of you. Significant events, timeline 2011 - Drilling (flow tests), part of equipment arrived. 2005-2011 - Exploration in Nugaal and Dharoor blocks 2005 - Rights sold to Range Resources 1991 - World Bank coordinated initiative launched by AAPG, Eastern Hemisphere Group in London Encouraging private investment to develop the petroleum potential of 8 African sub-Saharan countries. Somalia and Sudan ranked at the top of the list of the eight. In 5 decades - The Ministry + oil companies + donors from the international community + World Bank Funded to Drill 70 exploratory wells in Somalia in about 60 years of exploration. Some of them were promising. Currently, Somalia is under-explored and became neglected 1991 - The National Exploration Archive of the Ministry of Minerals & Water Resources The archive, stores and the database were burnt, looted and destroyed. 1989 - Evaluation of Hydrocarbon potential of Somalia 1960 - 1990 - Ministry of Petroleum, Minerals & Water Resources: Built Stores, archive and database The ministry built a National Exploration Archive in which confidential and un-confidential documents, cores and seismic data were stored. 1988 - 1991 - Report on World Bank-coordinated activity, headed by Thomas E. O Connor, ZR Beydoun from Marathon Oil (2008 Revenue: $77 Billion) and others. The activity was funded by the World bank, UNDP, Canada, France and UK in addition to some western oil companies. The activity focused on regional hydrocarbon study of the countries bordering the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. [Saudi Arabia did not participate]. The study indicated that there is good potential for oil and gas deposits in Northern Somalia 1980s - 12 International oil companies, including Conoco, Amoco, Arco, Chevron, Shell (Pecten), Phillips and Agip, ENI, sought and obtained exploration rights in Somalia Oil companies leased exploration blocks in the North, Northeast and Central Somalia to explore and develop oil and gas. 1977 - Hilal AF, Pvan G and Robba E published the stratigraphy of the Somali sedimentary basins Geologia stratigrafica della Somalia, Quaderni Di Geologia, Vol. 1, pp. 19 -50, Facolta Di Geologia, Univ. Naz. Som, Mogadishu 1976 - Barnes SU of Sinclair Somal Corporation (1955 -1960) Geology and oil prospects of Somalia, East Africa, AAPG, Vol. 60, no.3, pp.389 -413 1975 - Rompetrol of Romania (state-owned oil company) Considerations on the oil prospects of the Democratic Republic of Somalia; unpublished, Bucharest, Romania 1973 - Beltrandi M. and Pyre A Geological evolution of SW Somalia; in Blant G, ED.; Sedimentary basins of S and E African Coast; pp. 152 -178, ***. Serv. Geol. Afrique; Paris 1972 - The geological survey team of the People's Republic of China Report on petroleum and coal survey of the Somali Democratic Republic; Beijing 1972 - The Scientific TeamDeep Sea Drilling Project; Legs 23 -25, Geotimes, Vol. 17 1960 - Lyons P. and Benison A. of Sinclair Somali Corporation Somalia: Geological and geophysical report, unpublished, Mogadishu, Somalia 1957 -1977 AGIP Mineraria AGIP Somalia Unpublished reports, Mogadishu; Somalia 1968 - Andrews SM; Sinclair Somalia corporation Unpublished final report, Mogadishu; Somalia 25 - 1950 - 1970 Oil companies (AGIP and Sinclair) For 2 decades companies worked actively, though their reports were confidential 1960 - Azzaroli A. and Merla G. The geologic map of the Somali peninsula 1958 - Azzaroli A. and Merla G. Geologic map of Somalia and Ethiopia, including "Somali Galbeed". 1948 - In Kenya, Dixey published a report. The Jurassic succession of NE Kenya and the Juba River (the Jubaland) < Kenya's current interests? 1954 - The Somaliland Oil Exploration Company Ltd. Geological reconnaissance of the sedimentary deposits of the protectorate of British Somaliland 1946 - C.I. Migliorini of AGIP Mineraria Geologic studies on the Somali State of Ethiopia 1933 - Guiseppe Stefanini of the National Research Council of Italy A report + Geologic map of Horn of Africa 1925 - Guiseppe Stafanini Compiled a report on the geology of Italian Somaliland (Southern Somalia)1870 - WT Blanford of the Geological survey of India Wrote the earliest geologic report of East Africa, including Somalia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 17, 2011 Gas exploration - World Bank Afgooye Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 17, 2011 200 Billion Cubic feet of gas confirmed - Today worth $1.125 Billion dollars Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 17, 2011 A review of previous exploration indicates the vast majority of the wells drilled to date have been onshore in areas of predominantly continental sediment deposition. These wells into continental sediments have produced abundant shows of gas but very little content of liquid content. Those wells with liquids have invariably been close to the coastline, and at the edge of the marine depositional environments. It is reasonable to assume that as exploration extends into marine depositional environment present in the deeper water, liquids will begin to dominate, and commercial quantities of liquid hydrocarbons will result. Eastern Africa remains distant from the major oil markets of the world; however, the region is considered highly prospective and relatively unexplored and untested. http://www.somalitalk.com/oil/oil122.html : References at the bottom of this page Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Knight of Wisdom Posted November 17, 2011 Mamuul Goboleedka SSC is blessed with Diamonds in the Hawd, Oil in Gobolka Sool, Cayn, also parts of Sanag. This is the reason the likes of Somalia is after the people of SSC and their territory. Not because of brotherhood, but because, he wants to dominate our Natural Resources. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 Please get the HELL out of this thread with your cuqdad filled theories, Thank you. Oil in Somalia - Puntland region "It's there. There's no doubt there's oil there," said Thomas E. O'Connor, the principal petroleum engineer for the World Bank , who headed an in-depth, three-year study of oil prospects in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia's northern coast. This view was further reinforced in the mid 1980’s following the successful exploration efforts of Hunt Oil Corp across the Gulf of Aden in Yemen. There Hunt discovered an estimated 1 billion barrel oil reserves that their geologists believed were part of a great underground rift or valley that arced into and across northern Somalia. Hunt was given concession rights by Mengistu in 1989 to explore the Somali Galbeed region. Today it has the main oil contracts in Yemen, oil production in Iraqi Kurdistan and Peru. RPS Energy identifying 68 potential structures containing and estimated 2 billion barrels of oil-in-place (on a mean 100% basis) with the first of two exploration wells having spudded in July in 2011. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 Yemen-Somalia, Socotra Oil Basin 2009, Yemen submits papers to the UN Secretary General to extend continental shelf regarding South East of Socotra Island. This is the UN article on it, Article 76, paragraph 8, Law of the Sea. Information on the limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured shall be submitted by the coastal State to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf set up under Annex II on the basis of equitable geographical representation. The Commission shall make recommendations to coastal States on matters related to the establishment of the outer limits of their continental shelf. The limits of the shelf established by a coastal State on the basis of these recommendations shall be final and binding. Look at the map of the previous post and see the Oil basin of Socotra as it extends into Somalia, this also has potential for exploration. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 Somaliland potential for gem production Dr Kinnaird visited the country twice in the past two years. In addition to identifying gem minerals in the country, she helps local miners distinguish among similar coloured minerals and is working with Progressive Interventions supported by EC funding to help set up a gemmological association and marketing channels for Somaliland’s mineral resources. Recent geological surveys indicate that Somaliland has abundant deposits of gemstones, from emerald to aquamarine , ruby and sapphire as well as vast amounts of garnet, quartz and opal as well as lesser-known minerals such as titanite and vesuvianite . Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 Mining history and potential across the region Tin was commercially mined by the British in Somalia before World War II. Hafun used to be one of the biggest commercial salt centres in the world. Sea salt is still collected at several sites on the coast. The deposits of the clay mineral sepiolite, or meerschaum, in south-central Somalia are among the largest known reserves in the world. Uranium deposits are found in large quantities on some maps generated in the 1970s by Soviet mineralogy surveys in Somalia . These maps showed that Ali Gelle in Buur Hakaba Crystalline basement complex (within a two hundred kilometers west of Mogadishu) as an area where uranium can be mined. At a minimum 8000 tonnes of Uranium oxide could be in Central Somalia. Before the collapse of the government it was too expensive to extract but the price of Uranium has increased so now the benefits could outweigh the costs plus the necessity for Uranium has increased now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 Offshore deposits of oil Geologist Z. R. Beydoun, said offshore sites possess "the geological parameters conducive to the generation, expulsion and trapping of significant amounts of oil and gas." There were further small gas discoveries along the east coast and just offshore of Socotr a, but nothing of commercial proportions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 Oil Exploration Project Final Report - World Bank 1988 http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1988/12/08/000009265_3960925041527/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Somalia Posted November 18, 2011 The report shows that the World Bank didn't have enough time and due to political instability didn't do the research to the fullest which is also why they justify the budget and the high number of exploration visits to different parts of the region. They also focus on Mudug which at the time was the center of an insurgency. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
