Geological Interpretation Study for East Africa Providing Valuable Geo-Information to Exploration Companies

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Summary Deliverables The East African Rift System is increa- singly viewed as a hydrocarbon exploration hotspot with recent discoveries Airbus Defence and Space have The final study deliverables consist of in the Albertine Rift and offshore Tanzania. completed a regional geological the digital data on DVD as an integrated Covering approximately 4.5 million interpretation of the East Africa Rift ESRI ArcGIS project, containing the square km, the EARS fully integrated System incorporating Eritrea, Djibouti, following data and interpretation: geological study provides exploration Somaliland, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, • Structural and stratigraphic interpretation companies with a consistent interpreta- Malawi, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, tion of the surface geology and the loca- (supplied as ArcGIS Geodatabase) Mozambique and Madagascar. tion of hydrocarbon seeps in the region. • Global seeps (extract from the oil The final report integrates all datasets seeps database covering major rift to assess and highlight the hydrocarbon The EARS interpretation study is based lakes) prospectivity in the region. on 15m Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery combined with a 90m SRTM elevation • Seismic events model, it includes: • Mineral occurrences • Interpretation of surface geological • Major drainage channels and water structure at 1:100 000 – 1:250 000 bodies scale • Names of important structural features • Identification of major lithostratigraphical • 15m Landsat 7 ETM+ imagery in a units at 1:250 000 – 1:500 000 scale 742 (RGB) band combination • Capture of major drainage channels • SRTM 90m DEM in shaded relief form and water bodies • 100m contours • Oil seep locations as points and • Radar imagery for key areas vectors of slick outlines Also included is a full written report with The identified seeps are discussed in illustrations containing the results from relation to the regional structurals etting the geological interpretation and seeps and petroleum systems of the area. study which are discussed in relation to By combining the interpretation with published maps, reports and papers. the identified hydrocarbon seeps their In addition 31 hardcopy map sheets geological context can be readily as- are supplied at 1:500 000 scale. sessed. Surface evidence for several Airbus DS have extended their East phases of rifting can be identified from Africa Geological Interpretation study to the remote sensing data, with significant also include the following updates: overprinting between events. The study also demonstrates that oil seeps • Geological Interpretation covering redominately occur in the extensive Somalia and West Madagascar lakes within the Western Branch of • Offshore Global seeps; an additional the Rift including Lake Albert, Edward 782 Radar scenes will be assessed and Tanganyika. for natural oil seepage and incorpo- rated. Utilising offshore regional gravity, magnetics and bathymetry the seep analysis will be integrated with the interpretation of major offshore structural features, in the Madagascar Channel, Deep Water Tanzania and Seychelles, and our onshore geology to readily assess the geological context of the seeps. Radar imagery showing high confidence natural oil seeps

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