Title: Tectonic Evolution of the Lake Edward Basin, South Western Uganda and Its Implication to Petroleum Accumulation
Abstract: Summary Lake Edward basin forms the extreme southern part of the Albertine graben in southwestern Uganda. This graben forms the northern most part of the western arm of the East African Rift System (EARS).This basin has been explored to understand its paleoclimate, tectonics and depositional history and its petroleum potential. With these efforts, still its depositional, tectonic history and petroleum potential is less understood. Dominion (U) limited carried out seismic studies to ascertain its subsurface geology and this led to the drilling of Ngaji-1 well in 2010. This well did not encounter any hydrocarbon shows. Even a potential source rock was not encountered. However from surface investigations, there is some evidence for the existence of a source rock somewhere in the basin. From This study, potential reservoir facies, seal/cap facies and traps were encountered. At this scale of investigations, it is not possible to elucidate the extent of a pre-rift sedimentary basin which appears to host the source rock, and even to ascertain the location of hydrocarbon traps. This could be the subject for further investigations
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-11-17
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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