Proceedings of the
Second International Energy 2030 Conference,
November 4-5, 2008, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Oil and Gas in the UAE: Present and Future Production
Manhal Sirat and
The Petroleum Institute, UAE
Yuefeng Sun
The Petroleum Institute, UAE
Abstract
UAE’s existing oil and gas reservoirs are developed mainly in carbonates rocks within a time period
ranging from the late Permian (ca 290 Ma) to middle Miocene (ca 15 Ma). Proven reserves and actual
production in the neighboring oil-producing countries (e.g. Oman and Saudi Arabia), however, are also
from much older carbonate and clastic reservoir rocks, ranging between Infra Cambrian ca 540 Ma to
Silurian ca 420 - Ma. Future petroleum production of the UAE could be increased by exploration of deep
basins and by enhanced reservoir recovery with explicit fracture and fracturing networks.
