
We are sitting on 12 billion barrells of oil atleast if not more.



In 2009, Gaffney Cline & Associates estimated that the un-risked oil in place (OIP) may be between 12.4 billion barrels in the Nugaal block and 5.8 billion barrels in the Dhahoor block.
During 1989 and 1990 Conoco drilled the Nogal and Kalis-1 wells in the Nogal basin and revealed significant evidence of oil shows.
There is a possibility that the Nogal and Darin basins are extensions of the petroleum producing Marib Shawba and Sayun-Masila basins in the Gulf of Aden, Yemen.
Somalia is in North East Africa and has been identifed as a country with the requirements for abundant oil and gas – hydrocarbons in the Jurassic, Cretaceous and Tertiary rocks, plus good quality sandstone and carbonate reservoirs. Also the sandstones and carbonates are above organic rich shales and marls which may be a source for the hydrocarbon system.





