Outcrops & Subsurface examples of the EoCambrian petroleum system in Oman

Talk by Professor Stuart Harker, Retired.

Southern Oman has one of the oldest working petroleum systems in the world with source rocks, reservoirs and productive traps in the Huqf Supergroup (520-600mya).  There are superb world class outcrops of these sediments exposed along the Indian Ocean coast and in the inland salt diapir province.  Reservoirs range in depositional environment from glacial clastics to peritidal stromatolitic carbonates.  Petroleum traps range from conventional tilted fault blocks and anticlines, through salt induced anticlines to rafted carbonates and silicilyte.  In spite of over 70 years of exploration, there remain many opportunities to discover additional reservoirs and traps.

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