Depositional history and characterisation of Eocene carbonate reservoirs and their outcrop analogues, Tarabulus and Cyrenaica Basins, Northern Libya

Abstract

The Eocene carbonates are the most important hydrocarbon reservoirs in Libya as they constitute a significant amount of hydrocarbons in Tarabulus Basin, northwestern offshore Libya. This research is designed to integrate and interpret geophysical and sedimentological data including seismic reflections, well-logs, cores-field-based data, and petrographic data for detailed petroleum geology investigation. This will include the salt tectonic phenomena in the basin, lithofacies analyses, depositional environments, diagenetic history, and outcrop-analogue reservoir modelling.