Journal of Petroleum & Environmental Biotechnology

Pan African University, Institute of Earth and Life Sciences (Including, Health and Agriculture), Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria

Biography

Dr. Frederick Kofi Bempong is currently associated with Pan African University, Institute of Earth and Life Science (Including, Health and Agriculture), Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria and current research interest includes Geology, Petroleum potential, Hydrocarbons, Sedimentation, Earth and Life Science.

Publications

• Review   
  A Review of the Geology and the Petroleum Potential of the Cretaceous Tano Basin of Ghana
  Author(s): Frederick Kofi Bempong*, Bertram Maduka Ozumba, Vincent Hotor, Botwe Takyi and Cornelius S Nwanjide
  
  This is a review of the geology and the petroleum potential of the Cretaceous Tano Basin of Ghana, one of the coastal sedimentary basins in Ghana. It is located on the West African Transform Margin. It initially evolved as a pull-apart basin and later became modified by wrench faulting in the Cretaceous period. It has been known to have potentials for hydrocarbons, as indicated by oils seeps observed in the late 19th century. The presence of active source rocks deposited in the Albian to Cenomanian as well as the Turonian charges the Upper Cretaceous reservoirs sealed by widespread marine shales, as well as faulted traps and pinch-outs, has spurred exploration efforts. Thus, as expected, commercial discoveries of oil and gas have been made in the Tano Basin which evidently has become a ‘hot cake’ in deepwater exploration, even though the ultradeep water could show even mor.. View more»
  

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