South Oman Salt Basin

	South Oman Salt Basin The South Oman Salt Basin or SOSB is a sedimentary basin located in the Sultanate of Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of t ..., at the southeastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula. The basin is well-known for being one of the oldest commercial deposits in the world. Oil in SOBS is associated with source rocks of the Neoproterozoic to Cambrian Huqf Supergroup. In 1937, the first operating license in South Oman was awarded to Petroleum Development Oman and Dhofar. In 1976, the discovery of moveable oil in Nasir-1 boost the carbonate intrasalt stringer exploration. However, as the difficulty in delivering expected reserves was greater than expected, the deposits became dormant in 1986. References Geology of Oman {{Oman-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of the Persian Gulf. Oman shares land borders with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, while sharing maritime borders with Iran and Pakistan. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the southeast, and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast. The Madha and Musandam exclaves are surrounded by the United Arab Emirates on their land borders, with the Strait of Hormuz (which it shares with Iran) and the Gulf of Oman forming Musandam's coastal boundaries. Muscat is the nation's capital and largest city. From the 17th century, the Omani Sultanate was an empire, vying with the Portuguese and British empires for influence in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. At its peak in the 19th century, Omani influence and control extended ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Arabian Peninsula The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate. At , the Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world. Geographically, the Arabian Peninsula includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as the southern portions of Iraq and Jordan. The largest of these is Saudi Arabia. In the classical era, the southern portions of modern-day Syria, Jordan, and the Sinai Peninsula were also considered parts of Arabia (see Arabia Petraea). The Arabian Peninsula formed as a result of the rifting of the Red Sea between 56 and 23 million years ago, and is bordered by the Red Sea to the west and southwest, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman to the northeast, the Levant and Mesopotamia to the north and the Arabian S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Huqf Supergroup The Huqf Supergroup of the Sultanate of Oman is a lithostratigraphic unit (volume of rock) located in Jabal Akhdar (northern Oman), Huqf area (east-central Oman), and Mirbat area of Dhofar (southern Oman) and is penetrated by boreholes in the salt basins of the Oman interior. The Supergroup is composed of the Abu Mahara Group (ca. 725 to b645 Ma), the Nafun Group (ca.b645–547 Ma), and the Ara Group (ca. 547–540 Ma). Huqf stratigraphy is divided into four tectonically and temporally distinct units: the Cryogenian Abu Mahara Group, the Ediacaran Nafun Group, and the terminal Ediacaran to early Cambrian Ara Group. The supergroup contains a record of Neoproterozoic history, such as evidence of two glaciations, a massive reorganization of the global carbon cycle, and the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. The Huqf Supergroup is exposed in the Jabal Akhdar of the Al Hajar Mountains, and in the deformed and metamorphosed domal culmination of the Saih Hatat. Source rocks of the Neopr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]