A five-year research project by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), in partnership with the University of Jos (UNIJOS), has identified evidence of oil and natural gas potential in parts of Plateau State, raising fresh prospects for hydrocarbon exploration in Nigeria’s Middle Belt.
The findings were unveiled recently at the close-out seminar of the PTDF Endowment Professorial Chair in Geology and Mineral Science held at the University of Jos.
Presenting the report entitled “Integrated Geological and Geophysical Evaluation of the Shendam Sheet 212, Middle Belt Trough, Nigeria,” the Chair Occupant, Nuhu Kadai Samaila, a Professor of Sedimentology and Petroleum Geology, said the study confirmed geological indicators favourable for hydrocarbon generation.
“I can tell you that there is oil in Plateau. What we are able to establish right now is gas. We also have thick sediments and temperature gradients sufficient to mature source rocks within the basin,” Samaila declared.
He explained
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