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data-file-width="326" data-file-height="350" /></a><figcaption>Map of Libya</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>Sirte Basin</b> is a late <a href="/wiki/Mesozoic" title="Mesozoic">Mesozoic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cenozoic" title="Cenozoic">Cenozoic</a> <a href="/wiki/Triple_junction" title="Triple junction">triple junction</a> continental <a href="/wiki/Rift" title="Rift">rift</a> (extensional basin) along northern <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a> that was initiated during the late <a href="/wiki/Jurassic_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Jurassic Period">Jurassic Period</a>. It borders a relatively stable <a href="/wiki/Paleozoic" title="Paleozoic">Paleozoic</a> <a href="/wiki/Craton" title="Craton">craton</a> and cratonic sag basins along its southern margins. The province extends offshore into the <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean_Sea" title="Mediterranean Sea">Mediterranean Sea</a>, with the northern boundary drawn at the 2,000 meter (m) <a href="/wiki/Bathymetric" class="mw-redirect" title="Bathymetric">bathymetric</a> contour.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It borders in the north on the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Sidra" title="Gulf of Sidra">Gulf of Sidra</a> and extends south into northern <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Characteristics">Characteristics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Sirte Basin ranks 13th among the world's <a href="/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum">petroleum</a> provinces, having proven <a href="/wiki/Oil_reserves" class="mw-redirect" title="Oil reserves">oil reserves</a> estimated at 43.1 billion barrels (6.85<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>9</sup> m<sup>3</sup>) of oil equivalent (36.7 <a href="/wiki/Bbl" class="mw-redirect" title="Bbl">bbl</a>, 37.7<span style="margin-left:0.2em">×<span style="margin-left:0.1em">10</span></span><s style="display:none">^</s><sup>12</sup> cu ft (1,070 km<sup>3</sup>) of gas, 0.1 bbl (0.016 m<sup>3</sup>) of <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas_liquids" class="mw-redirect" title="Natural gas liquids">NGL</a>), an amount that constitutes 1.7% of the world’s known oil reserves. The basin consists of one dominant total petroleum system, known as the Sirte-Zelten. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Late_Cretaceous" title="Late Cretaceous">Late Cretaceous</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Shale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sirte Shale (page does not exist)">Sirte Shale</a> is the primary <a href="/wiki/Hydrocarbon" title="Hydrocarbon">hydrocarbon</a> <a href="/wiki/Source_rock" title="Source rock">source</a> bed.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Reservoir" title="Reservoir">Reservoirs</a> range in rock type and age from fractured <a href="/wiki/Precambrian" title="Precambrian">Precambrian</a> basement, clastic reservoirs in the <a href="/wiki/Cambrian" title="Cambrian">Cambrian</a>-<a href="/wiki/Ordovician" title="Ordovician">Ordovician</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gargaf_Sandstone&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gargaf Sandstone (page does not exist)">Gargaf Sandstone</a>, and Lower Cretaceous <a href="/wiki/Nubian_Sandstone" title="Nubian Sandstone">Nubian Sandstone</a> to <a href="/wiki/Paleocene" title="Paleocene">Paleocene</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zelten_Formation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zelten Formation (page does not exist)">Zelten Formation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eocene" title="Eocene">Eocene</a> <a href="/wiki/Carbonate_rock" title="Carbonate rock">carbonates</a> usually in the form of bioherms. </p><p>Hydrocarbon generation commenced about 50 million years ago (Ma) in the deeper basins, about 40 Ma in many other areas, and may continue to the present day. <a href="/wiki/Geothermal_gradient" title="Geothermal gradient">Geothermal gradients</a> generally range from <span class="nowrap">1 °F/100 ft</span> to <span class="nowrap">1.8 °F/100 ft</span>; <a href="/wiki/Horst_(geology)" title="Horst (geology)">horsts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Graben" title="Graben">grabens</a> generally have roughly equivalent thermal regimes relative to the primary source rock. Along the southwest and west margins of the province are extrusive igneous deposits that tend to diminish the hydrocarbon potential of these areas. The <a href="/wiki/Gialo_High" title="Gialo High">Gialo High</a> is a relatively small horst block in the eastern Sirte Basin. It is most important and primarily known for the stacked oil fields in rocks ranging from the Early Cretaceous to <a href="/wiki/Oligocene" title="Oligocene">Oligocene</a> age. There are several billion barrels of oil reserves associated with the structure both over the crest of the horst as well as flanking the high in the adjacent graben.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Characteristics_2">Characteristics</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Characteristics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Statistic</th> <th>Amount </th></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Formation</td> <td>Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Land area</td> <td>≈230,000 km<sup>2</sup> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Source rock</td> <td>Sirte Shale </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Dominant trap style</td> <td>Structural </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Rift Type</td> <td>Triple junction </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">System</td> <td>Tethyan Rift System </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><small>Notes:<br /> 1. USGS 2002.</small> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Land_area">Land area</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Land area"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Libya_Topography.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Libya_Topography.png/220px-Libya_Topography.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Libya_Topography.png/330px-Libya_Topography.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Libya_Topography.png/440px-Libya_Topography.png 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="1071" /></a><figcaption>Topography of Libya</figcaption></figure> <p>The land area in the Sirte basin is characterized by desert steppes and includes <a href="/wiki/Aeolian_processes" title="Aeolian processes">eolian</a> deposits from the <a href="/wiki/Rebiana_Sand_Sea" title="Rebiana Sand Sea">Rebiana</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kalansho_Sand_Sea" class="mw-redirect" title="Kalansho Sand Sea">Kalansho Sand Sea</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Sahara_Desert" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahara Desert">Sahara Desert</a>. In a relatively narrow, northern coastal strip, some land areas are as much as 47 m below sea level. The basin is floored by a northwest-southeast-trending mosaic of narrow horsts and <a href="/wiki/Graben" title="Graben">grabens</a>, an important structural characteristic that distinguishes it from the adjacent intracratonic <a href="/wiki/Kufra" title="Kufra">Kufra</a>, <a href="/wiki/Murzuq_Desert" title="Murzuq Desert">Murzuk</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ghadames" title="Ghadames">Ghadames</a> basins.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The area of the Sirte Basin occupies about 230,000 km<sup>2</sup>, with a <a href="/wiki/Wildcat_drilling" class="mw-redirect" title="Wildcat drilling">wildcat drilling</a> density of one new field wildcat per 145 km<sup>2</sup>. Overall drilling density of the basin is 3.3 wells per 100 km<sup>2</sup>, with an average field depth of 2,100 m. Recent indications of hydrocarbons within grabens suggest that these areas have potential as well as clastic reservoirs beneath the carbonate reservoirs in the Central Sirte Basin. The offshore area beyond 200 m depths is largely unexplored. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geologic_setting">Geologic setting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Geologic setting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Sirte Basin province is considered to be a <a href="/wiki/Type_locality_(geology)" title="Type locality (geology)">type locality</a> of a continental rift (extensional) area and is referred to as part of the Tethyan rift system.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the designation scheme of Bally and Snelson, it is classified as 1211; a cratonic basin located on earlier rifted grabens on a rigid <a href="/wiki/Lithosphere" title="Lithosphere">lithosphere</a> and not associated with formation of megasutures.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Clifford terms it as an interior fracture basin near the <a href="/wiki/Tectonic_plate" class="mw-redirect" title="Tectonic plate">tectonic plate</a> margin, which characteristically has an axis at an angle to that margin.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The area's structural weakness is exemplified by alternating periods of <a href="/wiki/Tectonic_uplift" title="Tectonic uplift">uplift</a> and <a href="/wiki/Subsidence" title="Subsidence">subsidence</a> originating in the Late Precambrian, commencing with the <a href="/wiki/Pan-African_orogeny" title="Pan-African orogeny">Pan-African orogeny</a> that consolidated a number of proto-continental fragments into an early <a href="/wiki/Gondwanaland" class="mw-redirect" title="Gondwanaland">Gondwanaland</a>. Rifting commenced in the Early Cretaceous, peaked in the Late Cretaceous, and ended in the early Cenozoic, resulting in the triple junction within the basin. The Late Cretaceous rifting event is characterized by formation of a sequence of northwest-trending horsts and grabens that step progressively downward to the east; the Sirte Trough represents the deepest portion of the basin. These horsts and grabens extend from onshore areas northward into a complex offshore terrane that includes the <a href="/wiki/Ionian_Sea" title="Ionian Sea">Ionian Sea</a> <a href="/wiki/Abyssal_plain" title="Abyssal plain">abyssal plain</a> to the northeast. This plain is underlain by <a href="/wiki/Oceanic_crust" title="Oceanic crust">oceanic crust</a> that is being <a href="/wiki/Subduction" title="Subduction">subducted</a> to the north and east beneath the <a href="/wiki/Hellenic_arc" title="Hellenic arc">Hellenic arc</a>. The Pelagian province to the west, particularly the pull-apart basins of the Sabratah Basin and extending along the South Cyrenaica Fault Zone (SCFZ) and the <a href="/wiki/Cyrenaica" title="Cyrenaica">Cyrenaica</a> Platform to the east, is strongly influenced by extensional dextral <a href="/wiki/Strike-slip_fault" class="mw-redirect" title="Strike-slip fault">strike-slip faulting</a>. To the south, the <a href="/wiki/Nubian_Swell" title="Nubian Swell">Nubian Swell</a> is the stable continental basement for this rifted basin.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trap_style">Trap style</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Trap style"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In geology, "trap" refers to the stratigraphic or tectonic structural feature that ensures the juxtaposition of reservoir and seal such that hydrocarbons remain trapped in the subsurface, rather than escaping (due to their natural <a href="/wiki/Buoyancy" title="Buoyancy">buoyancy</a>). Oil and gas trapped within the porous rock unit migrate to a high point in the structure because of their low density. In the Sirte Basin the dominant trap style is structural (84 percent), with the remainder considered stratigraphic or a combination of the two. As examples of combined traps, bioherm developments in the Paleocene Zelten Group are found on horst blocks, and clastic <a href="/wiki/Stratigraphic" class="mw-redirect" title="Stratigraphic">stratigraphic</a> traps such as at Sarir or Messla field are superimposed on structures.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Petroleum_history">Petroleum history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Petroleum history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first reported petroleum occurrence in the Sirte Basin was observed in a coastal water well drilled by Italian colonists during the <a href="/wiki/History_of_Libya_as_Italian_Colony" class="mw-redirect" title="History of Libya as Italian Colony">Italian-occupation</a>. The Italian government embarked on geologic investigations of the area and produced a <a href="/wiki/Geologic_map" title="Geologic map">geologic map</a> in 1934. Shows of natural gas were observed in the late 1930s, but <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> interrupted exploration efforts. Competitive bidding for concessions was subsequently permitted by two mineral laws passed in 1953 and 1955, and exploration by <a href="/wiki/Esso" title="Esso">Esso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mobil" title="Mobil">Mobil</a>, Texas Gulf, and others commenced with <a href="/wiki/Seismic" class="mw-redirect" title="Seismic">seismic</a>, magnetic, and gravity data being collected. From 1956 to 1961 giant oil fields were discovered. Libya started exporting oil in 1961 and by 1966 it was the 7th largest oil-producing nation in the world. During 1969, output from the Sirte Basin had even exceeded production from <a href="/wiki/Saudi_Arabia" title="Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a> (3 Mmbpd). Libya <a href="/wiki/Nationalized" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalized">nationalized</a> its oil industry in 1973, and some American oil companies began withdrawing in 1982, following a 1981 <a href="/wiki/United_States_embargoes" class="mw-redirect" title="United States embargoes">US trade embargo</a>. By 1986, the US government ordered remaining US companies to cease activities in Libya. In 1992, the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> sanctioned Libya in response to the 1988 bombing of <a href="/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103" title="Pan Am Flight 103">Pan Am Flight 103</a>. Additional sanctions applied by the US Sanctions Act of 1996 were relaxed in 1999. Since then, American and other foreign oil companies have returned to resume their operations in Libya, led by <a href="/wiki/AGIP" class="mw-redirect" title="AGIP">AGIP</a> (Italy), <a href="/wiki/OMV" title="OMV">OMV</a>(Austria), <a href="/wiki/Veba" class="mw-redirect" title="Veba">Veba</a> (Germany), <a href="/wiki/Total_S.A." class="mw-redirect" title="Total S.A.">Total</a> (France), Nimir (Saudi Arabia), WOC (<a href="/wiki/National_Oil_Corporation" title="National Oil Corporation">National Oil Corporation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conoco" title="Conoco">Conoco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marathon_Oil" title="Marathon Oil">Marathon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Amerada_Hess" class="mw-redirect" title="Amerada Hess">Amerada Hess</a>), and ETAP of Tunisia.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2020, operations were transferred by Wintershall Aktiengesellschaft to Sarir Oil Operations.<sup id="cite_ref-northafrica_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-northafrica-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2021, state-owned company NOC announced plans for resuming operations in the basin.<sup id="cite_ref-africai_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-africai-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Petroleum_occurrence">Petroleum occurrence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Petroleum occurrence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2007, the <a href="/wiki/Energy_Information_Administration" title="Energy Information Administration">Energy Information Administration</a> estimated that the Sirte Basin Province contains approximately 80% of Libya's total proven oil reserves (41.5 billion barrels (6.60<span style="margin:0 .15em 0 .25em">×</span>10<sup>9</sup> m<sup>3</sup>) as of January 2007) and accounted for roughly 90% of the country's total oil output, which was 1.80 Mbbl/d (286,000 m<sup>3</sup>/d) in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over twenty-three large oil fields and sixteen giant oil fields occur in the province.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Libya's onshore oil has historically been discovered mainly within the confines of three major geological trends occurring in the Sirte Basin: </p> <ol><li>Western fairway</li> <li>North-central Libya</li> <li>Easterly trend</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basin_petroleum_data:_selected_fields">Basin petroleum data: selected fields</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sirte_Basin&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Basin petroleum data: selected fields"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Field</th> <th>Geological Trend</th> <th>Annual Production</th> <th>Reserves</th> <th>Discovery</th> <th>Operator(s) </th></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Samah Field</td> <td>Western</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>NA</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> WOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Beida Field</td> <td>Western</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>NA</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> <a href="/wiki/National_Oil_Corporation" title="National Oil Corporation">NOC</a> </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Dahra-Hofra Field</td> <td>Western</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>NA</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> WOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Raguba_Field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Raguba Field (page does not exist)">Raguba Field</a></td> <td>Western</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1961</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> SOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Bahi Field</td> <td>Western</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>1958</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> NOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Waha_Field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Waha Field (page does not exist)">Waha Field</a></td> <td>Northcentral</td> <td>350,000 bbl/d (56,000 m<sup>3</sup>/d)</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1961</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States"><img alt="United States" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a></span></span> ConocoPhillips </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nasser_Field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nasser Field (page does not exist)">Nasser Field</a></td> <td>Northcentral</td> <td>NA</td> <td>2.5 Bbbl</td> <td>1956</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> SOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Hateiba gas field</td> <td>Northcentral</td> <td>NA</td> <td>NA</td> <td>1960</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> SOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sarir_Field&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sarir Field (page does not exist)">Sarir Field</a></td> <td>Eastern</td> <td>NA</td> <td>12.0 Bbbl</td> <td>1961</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> Agoco </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Messla Field</td> <td>Eastern</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1971</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> Agoco </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Gialo Field</td> <td>Eastern</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>NA</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> WOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Bu Attifel Field</td> <td>Eastern</td> <td>80,000 bbl/d (13,000 m<sup>3</sup>/d)</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1968</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"><img alt="Italy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/23px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="15" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/35px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/03/Flag_of_Italy.svg/45px-Flag_of_Italy.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1000" /></a></span></span> Agip </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Intisar Field</td> <td>Eastern</td> <td>NA</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1967</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> ZOC </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">Nafoora-Augila Field</td> <td>Eastern</td> <td>100,000 bbl/d (16,000 m<sup>3</sup>/d)</td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1965</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> Agoco </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="f1f5fa" align="right"> <td align="left">Amal Field</td> <td>Eastern</td> <td></td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1959</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> Harouge </td></tr> <tr bgcolor="ffffff" align="right"> <td align="left">En-Naga Field</td> <td>Western</td> <td>24,000 bbl/d (3,800 m<sup>3</sup>/d)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td> <td>Gof</td> <td>1998</td> <td><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya"><img alt="Libya" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/23px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/35px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Flag_of_Libya.svg/46px-Flag_of_Libya.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="960" data-file-height="480" /></a></span></span> Harouge </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><small>Notes:<br /> 1. 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href="/wiki/Cretaceous" title="Cretaceous">Cretaceous</a> <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">Sandstone</a> in an <a href="/wiki/Anticline" title="Anticline">anticline</a> with fault blocks discovered from a seismic survey.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Messla Field produces from the Lower Cretaceous <a href="/wiki/Fluvial" class="mw-redirect" title="Fluvial">fluvial</a> Sarir sandstone 27 m thick at a depth of 2682 m.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Intisar 'D' Oil Field produces from an upper <a href="/wiki/Paleocene" title="Paleocene">Paleocene</a> pinnacle <a href="/wiki/Reef" title="Reef">reef</a> 385 m thick, 5 km in diameter, and at a depth of about 2700 m<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span 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