Tanzania - Lynx GIS Adviser

Updated for the TPDC 2013 4th Offshore Licensing Round

The recent high level of exploration success in the frontier area of Tanzania has attracted worldwide corporate interest, as a result of which Lynx Information Systems and Fairway Exploration have produced a detailed assessment of the petroleum geology and hydrocarbon potential of both the onshore and offshore sedimentary basins of Tanzania, highlighting play concepts and identifying areas with the greatest prospectivity.

The results of this recent exploration success have provided a wealth of new geological, geophysical and geochemical data, which have been synthesised and interpreted to form this GIS-based report, revealing many new plays and prospects, aiming to bring companies up to date with the fast-growing knowledge of the petroleum geology of Tanzania in the light of the recent significant discoveries in this area.

1/9 - Regional Layers - The Tanzania Adviser includes an array of regional map layers, including:
Culture, Wells, Fields, Concessions, Geologic Provinces, Surface Geology and Satellite Imagery

2/9 - Hydrocarbon Plays – Hydrocarbon Plays layers featuring fault zones, faults, geologic section
locations, geological provinces, hydrocarbon play extents, limits and oil seeps

3/9 - Paleogeography –Symbolized facies, faults and limits layers depicting the following eras:
Early Cretaceous (Neocomian-Barremian), Early Jurassic, Late Cretaceous (Turonian – Maastrichtian),
Late Jurassic (Callovian – Tithonian), Mid Cretaceous (Aptian – Cenomanian), Mid Jurassic (Bajocian – Bathonian),
Paleogene, Permo – Triassic

4/9 - Structural Features and Depth to Basement - Anomalous Gravity Low, Approx Depth to Basement,
Axis, Depth to Basement Contours, Fault Zones, Potential Field Lineaments, Salt Structure, Faults, Volcanics

5/9 - Petroleum Geochemistry and Geothermal Gradient - Deep Kitchen Areas, Geothermal Gradient
(Contours & Geometric Interval Grid), Source Rock Occurrences (Approx Percent Oil, Approx Percent Gas,
Average TOC Percent, Age, Lithology, Source Interval Thickness, Max TOC, Ro Mean Value Percent, Comments)

6/9 - Tectonics - Basement, Basement Discontinuity of Fracture, Depth to Basement, Faults, Grav Mag Axis,
Intense Radioactivity Possible Uranium Target, Residual Gravity Low

7/9 - Well Summaries - 38 raster well summaries, linked to their position in the wells feature class,
illustrating: Period/Epoch, Series/Stage, Group/Formation, Depth (m) RKB, Lithology, Depositional Environment,
Hydrocarbons, Porosity, Source Rocks, Maturity, TWS ms (MSL), Notes

8/9 - Wells - Basic well header information is included for 99 well locations. Detailed information
including stratigraphy, hydrocarbon shows, test results, reservoir properties, geochemistry is included for
28 of these. LAS digital well logs are available for wells Kiwangwa-1 and Mnazi Bay-1

9/9 - A series of 27 structural cross-sections based on seismic lines tying important
wells and major discoveries throughout the country

The project provides a comprehensive integrated geological and geophysical assessment of the hydrocarbon potential of the area, based on the results obtained from a detailed study of the geology, geophysics, stratigraphy and petroleum geochemistry of the sedimentary basins of Tanzania.

Recent discoveries in Tanzania have made this area one of the hottest exploration plays in the region and the number of companies active in the country continues to increase. This project is considered to be the most up to date complete documentation of the country whose pace of exploration is expected to accelerate in the near future and where impressive development projects will be taking place.

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