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searchaux" style="display:none">Basin in Ogaden region that reserves crude oil and natural gas</div> <p>The <b>Ogaden Basin</b> is an area of <a href="/wiki/Huwan" class="mw-redirect" title="Huwan">Huwan</a> that may hold significant reserves of <a href="/wiki/Crude_oil" class="mw-redirect" title="Crude oil">crude oil</a> and <a href="/wiki/Natural_gas" title="Natural gas">natural gas</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EIA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EIA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_basin" title="Sedimentary basin">basin</a> covers an area of some 350,000 square kilometres (135,000 square miles) and is formed from <a href="/wiki/Sedimentary_rock" title="Sedimentary rock">sedimentary rocks</a> up to 10,000 meters (6 miles) thick.<sup id="cite_ref-SW2002_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geological</a> similarities to other <a href="/wiki/Hydrocarbon" title="Hydrocarbon">hydrocarbon</a>-rich basins in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SV2003_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SV2003-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Hydrocarbon_exploration_and_development_(Ogadenia)"><span id="Hydrocarbon_exploration_and_development_.28Ogadenia.29"></span>Hydrocarbon exploration and development (Ogadenia)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogaden_Basin&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Hydrocarbon exploration and development (Ogadenia)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png/250px-OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png/375px-OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png/500px-OgadenBasinExplorationBlocks.png 2x" data-file-width="581" data-file-height="547" /></a><figcaption>Exploration blocks in the Ogaden Basin and Kismayo Coast</figcaption></figure> <p>The first exploration in the basin was undertaken by <a href="/wiki/Standard_Oil" title="Standard Oil">Standard Oil</a> in 1920<sup id="cite_ref-SW2002_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> More recent exploration by <a href="/wiki/Tenneco" title="Tenneco">Tenneco</a> resulted in the discovery of an estimated 68 million cubic metres (2.4 billion cubic feet) of gas in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-SW2002_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Development of the reserves in the basin's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeexdin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeexdin (page does not exist)">Jeexdin</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Elale&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Elale (page does not exist)">Elale</a> gas fields is being carried out by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Gazoil_Ethiopia_Project&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gazoil Ethiopia Project (page does not exist)">Gazoil Ethiopia Project</a>, a joint-venture partnership between the <a href="/wiki/Government_of_Ethiopia" title="Government of Ethiopia">government of Ethiopia</a> and <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a>-based <a href="/w/index.php?title=Sicor&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sicor (page does not exist)">Sicor</a> announced in December 1999.<sup id="cite_ref-EIA_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EIA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SW2002_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SW2002-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The basin has been divided into 21 blocks,<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> and exploration rights have been awarded for many of them. Companies with concessions in the basin include Netherlands registered <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pexco_Exploration&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pexco Exploration (page does not exist)">Pexco Exploration</a>, <a href="/wiki/Petronas" title="Petronas">Petronas</a> (Malaysia), <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lundin_East_Africa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lundin East Africa (page does not exist)">Lundin East Africa</a> (Sweden), <a href="/w/index.php?title=SouthWest_Energy_Ltd.&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SouthWest Energy Ltd. (page does not exist)">SouthWest Energy Ltd.</a> (Hong Kong), and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Afar_Explorer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Afar Explorer (page does not exist)">Afar Explorer</a> (USA).<sup id="cite_ref-SV2003_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SV2003-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_instability_and_armed_conflict">Political instability and armed conflict</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ogaden_Basin&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political instability and armed conflict"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Ogaden_War" title="Ogaden War">Ogaden War</a> between Ethiopia and <a href="/wiki/Somalia" title="Somalia">Somalia</a> took place for the control of the region between 1977 and 1978, with a further clash in 1988. 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