Talk:Niger Delta Basin (geology)

Can some-one fix the line "Success rate to hit oil in the past of this area is as high as 45%" so it makes some sense?--Auric The Rad 01:19, Feb 4, 2004 (UTC)

Niger Delta Province
Indeed, "success rate as high as 45%" is confusing. On average 45% might be better. What it means is that 45% of the wildcats (exploration wells on new, seismically defined prospects) drilled found oil or gas or both. By the way, the term "Niger Delta Field" sounds odd to a petroleum geologist. One should brather talk about Niger Delta province. That is a "geological" province where oil fields occur. Now it appears as if the whole of the Delta is underlain by an oil-bearing layer. (although this was explained in the article not to be the case). In fact only about 5% of the area is underlain by accumulations! That in itself is interesting because then a "Random driller" would have a 5% success rate. The 45% shows the improvement made by geology and seismology. Dr M.H.Nederlof, geologist, Netherlands

Class assignment
Hey Ashton, I think it is pretty apparent you page isn't more than just a stub of the Nigerian Basin at the moment. There are a lot of different directions you could look for expanding your page, such as describing the structures seen, the evolution of your basin, the stratigraphy of the sediments, and even go into the different types of resources found within the petroleum system. I can not really give you much feed back seeing that you only have a very basic single paragraph background of your basin, but when you really get the page going I would be happy to look at it again and give you some additional comments!

Peer Review
Say boy,

You have some great bones for your article here. I like how you mention important formations found within your basin. Once you beef up those sections, maybe add one or two more major sections to give a well-rounded amount of information. I do not know what kind of information is out there about your basin but stratigraphy is always interesting and easy to write about. Over all, you and your article rock. No pun intended.

Keep up the good work!

Shelbyrich (talk) 06:19, 24 February 2015 (UTC)Shelbyrich