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Hydrocarbon Resource Potential of the Bornu Basin Northeastern Nigerian GLOBAL JOURNAL OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES VOL, 10, NO.1, 2012 71-84 71 COPYRIGHT© BACHUDO SCIENCE CO. LTD PRINTED IN NIGERIA. ISSN 1596-6798 www.globaljournalseries.com, Email: [email protected] HYDROCARBON RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE BORNU BASIN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIAN H. HAMZA AND I. HAMIDU (Received 18 February 2011; Revision Accepted 21 September 2011) ABSTRACT The separation of Africa from South America was accompanied by rifting and sinistral strike-slip movements that formed the Bornu Basin. The Bornu Basin form part of the West African Rift System. Geochemical analyse of samples from the Fika Shale shows that eighty percent of the samples have TOC values >0.5 wt%. Plots on the modified Van Krevelen diagram indicate organic matter that is predominantly Type III kerogen. A corresponding plot on the HI–Tmax diagram indicates an entirely gas generative potential for the source rocks. In the Bornu Basin which belongs to the West African Rift Subsystem (WARS) two potential petroleum systems are suggested. “Lower Cretaceous Petroleum System” – is the phase 1 synrift sediments made up of sandstones with an extensive system of lacustrine deposits developed during Barremian to Albian time. “Upper Cretaceous Petroleum System” – is the phase II rift sediments in the Bornu Basin which comprise mainly shallow marine to paralic shales, deltaic to tidal flat sandstones and minor carbonates. TOC values range generally from 0.23 wt. % to 1.13 wt. % with an average of 0.74 wt. % for the Fika Shale. KEY WORDS: Bornu Basin; Fika Shale; Source rocks; Organic matter; Petroleum System. INTRODUCTION the Chad Basin (Figure 1). It is contiguous with the N–S Exploration started in the Bornu Basin in the aligned part of the upper Benue Trough called the Gajigana area northeast of Maiduguri in 1979, when Gongola Arm or Gongola Basin. The Benue Trough and feasibility studies indicated the possibility of oil Bornu Basin form an integral part of the “West and occurrences in the area. In the neighbouring Chad Central African Rift System” (WCARS) of Fairhead Republic a total of 43 wells were drilled before oil was (1986) and subsequent authors (Guiraud et al., 1992; found in commercial quantities. The Nigerian National Genik, 1993; Keller et al., 1995). Commercial volumes of Petroleum Corporation through its frontier exploration hydrocarbons have been discovered in Chad and Sudan services arm (NAPIMS) had by that time drilled 23 wells within the CARS rift. In southwestern Chad, exploitation in the Bornu Basin, of which only two wells encountered of the Doba discovery (with estimated reserves of about sub-commercial volumes of gas. Chevron Overseas 1 billion barrels) by Exxon-Mobil has led to the Petroleum Inc’s exploration programme in the Muglad construction of a 1,070 km long pipeline through Basin of Sudan was a good example of a successful Cameroun to the Atlantic coast. In the Sudan, giant drilling campaign in a remote, high risk and high cost fields such as Unity 1 and 2, Kaikang and Heglig have area. This success together with commercial been discovered in the Muglad Basin (Mohammed et al., discoveries in the Chad and Niger Republics 1999). Major source and reservoir rocks in the Muglad encouraged Chevron Nigeria Ltd, Elf Nigeria Ltd and Basin occur in continental Aptian to Cenomanian Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Ltd deposits of the Abu Gabra and Bentiu Formations to acquire exploration leases in Nigeria’s Gongola Basin respectively and can be correlated with the Bima in the upper Benue Trough in 1992. Exploration efforts Sandstone in the Bornu Basin. In Niger Republic, oil in Nigeria’s inland basins have so far resulted in little and gas shows have also been encountered in success. Many international companies have therefore Mesozoic to Cenozoic sediments in the east Niger turned their focus away from the Nigerian onshore to graben. Exploration efforts in the Bornu Basin have had deep and ultradeep-water offshore frontier areas. But negligible success. For this reason, many aspects of recently the Northern Nigerian Development Company the exploration programme have been temporarily (NNDC) in partnership with Chinese Company had suspended and the vast amount of data generated over acquired exploration lease/blocks in the Bornu Basin the years is being evaluated to assist in designing a and exploration has resumed. future exploration programme. The Nigerian sector of the Chad Basin is known as the Bornu Basin and is one-tenth of the total area of H. Hamza, Geology Department Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. I. Hamidu, Geology Department Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. 72 H. HAMZA AND I. HAMIDU Figure 1: Geological map of part of Nigeria showing location of Bornu Basin, adjacent rift basins and study areas. With this development, it has become necessary to based on geochemical data from four exploration wells evaluate the prospectivity of this frontier region, Murshe-1, Tuma-1, Ziye-1 and Kemar-1 (Figure 1). especially the availability or otherwise of favourable petroleum systems. Analysis of source rocks is an ORIGIN, STRUCTURE AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE essential step in understanding the petroleum systems BORNU BASIN that may be available in the basin. At the core of any The N-S trending Gongola Basin which is the petroleum system is a good quality source rock which is northern-most outcroping part of the Benue Trough is an indispensable aspect in the buildup of any petroleum separated from the Bornu Basin by the Dumbulwa-Bage system (total organic carbon [TOC] >0.5 wt. %, High. The Cretaceous to Tertiary rifts of Niger, Chad, hydrogen index [HI] >150 mg Hc/g TOC, liptinite content Central African Republic and Nigeria make up a large > 15%, Tmax ≥ 430oC, and Ro 0.5 – 1.2%). In this part of the “West and Central African Rift System” regard, geochemical data on samples from outcrops and (WCARS) of Genik (1993) which is subdivided into two wells in the Bornu basin have been evaluated by Petters coeval, genetically related but physically separated rift and Ekweozor (1982); Olugbemiro (1997); Olugbemiro systems known as the West African Rift Subsystem et al., 1997); Obaje et al. (2004a, 2004b) all confirmed (WARS) and Central African Rift Subsystem (CARS). the gas-prone nature of the source rocks. Other The Bornu Basin is part of the chain of the WARS petroleum system elements must include reservoir and basins. The origin of the WCARS is generally attributed seal lithologies, establishable trapping mechanisms and to the breakup of Gondwana and the opening of the favourable regional migration pathways. This paper South-Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean at about highlights the potential petroleum systems in the basin 120-130 Ma (Fairhead and Green 1989) (Figure 2a, b). The tectonic framework and the evolution of the Bornu HYDROCARBON RESOURCE POTENTIAL OF THE BORNU BASIN NORTHEASTERN NIGERIAN 73 Basin took place during the evolution of the WARS African Republic (C.A.R) which advances the concept basins (Termit and Ténéré Basins) and divisible into four proposed earlier by Fairhead (1986) that oceanic strike- phases as shown in Table 1 (Genik, 1993). Genik slip faults extended into Africa and produced the (1992, 1993) presented a model for the regional orthogonal extension that opened the Niger and framework and tectonic evolution of the Cretaceous to Sudanese rifts. Tertiary rift basins of Niger, Chad and the Central Figure 2: a, Model showing the possible extension of the opening of the South Atlantic through Nigeria and eastern Niger into Kufra and Sirte Basins in Libya (After Fairhead and Green, 1989). b, Model showing the possible link between the opening of the central Equatorial and South Atlantic Oceans and development of the Caribbean and WCARS during the Late Cretaceous, (After Fairhead and Green, 1989). 74 H. HAMZA AND I. HAMIDU Table 1: Paleotectonic evolution of the West African Rift Subsystem (WARS) as it affected the Bornu Basin (Genik, 1993) GEOCHRONOLOGY* TECTONIC EVOLUTION RIFT RELATIVE TECTONIC DEP. VOLCANISM EROSION PHASE ACTIVITY TECTONIC AGE (Ma) ENV. SYSTEM SERIES STAGE INTENSITY o vv v v v QUAT. HOLOCENE - PLEISTOCENE v v v v v 5.2 POST- Alluvial RIFT Fluvial v v v v v Lacustrine v v v v v ENE MIOCENE - ? G PLIOCENE EO 25.2 N OLIGOCENE Lacustrine 36 ┬ ENE EOCENE Fluvial G TERTIARY TE EO 54 III Marine PALEOCENE PAL 66.5 MAASTR- ICHTIAN 74 Alluvial C TE Fluvial CAMPANIAN PER ? 84 II SENONIAN UP SANTONIAN ► ? Marine CONIACIAN 85 v v vv vv v TURONIAN 92 CENOMANIAN ◄ ► 96 ALBIAN 108 Fluvial APTIAN Lacustrine CRETACEOUS 113 Fluvial BARREMIAN ◄ ► Lacustrine 116.5 HAUTE- REVIAN Alluvial 121 I Fluvial LOWER ◄ ► VALAN- GINIAN 128 PRE- Alluvial RYAZANIAN NEOCOMIAN BERRIASIAN 131 RIFT Fluvial JURASSIC-PALEOZOIC CRATONIC PLATFORM 500 PAN-AFRICAN PRECAMBRIAN PAN-AFRICAN CRUSTAL CONSOLIDATION LEGEND ↔ Extension Uplift or relative structural high E Sag. Eustatic & Thermo-teconic Possible Compression v Igneous T Sag. Thermo-tectonic * After Haq et al. (1987) Cratchley and Jones (1965) recognized an ovoid- trending set. Umar (1999) recently studied the structure shaped negative Bouguer gravity anomaly north of of the Bornu Basin and indicated the presence of three Maiduguri (Figure 3a). Combining gravity data with major depressions: (1) the elongated oval depression seismic refraction studies, Cratchley et al. (1984) oriented WNW-ESE, C1; (2) the elongated depression identified a “Maiduguri Trough”, thought to contain some oriented NNE-SSE, C2; (3) a tabular zone between the 3000m of Cretaceous and Quaternary sediments, two above, C3 (Figure 4). The two depressions running NNE from near Maiduguri in Bornu Basin and correspond to depocentres or sub-basins. In the C1 connecting with the Termit rift (Figure 3b). Two main depression, Umar (1999) identified Maiduguri and Gubio fault systems were identified by Avbovbo et al. (1986); a sub-basins to the SE and NW respectively.
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