IPTC Conference Programme

The Jurassic Tuwaiq Mountain escarpment is one of Saudi Arabia’s most spectacular topographical features, extending for roughly 1200 km in a north-south direction, and reaching up to 600m in height. Geologically, the Tuwaiq Mountain Formation includes the main source rock intervals for all Jurassic reservoirs in Saudi Arabia.

The primary focus of this trip is to familiarize the participants with the Arabian Jurassic stratigraphy, sedimentology, and depositional settings.

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It was at this famous locality, which in the 1930’s inspired pioneer geologist Max Steineke to unravel the stratigraphy of the Jurassic successions and promoted his famous quote ‘Drill a little deeper'.

Saudi Arabia’s first petroleum discovery happened shortly after his visit as drilling continued in Dhahran to the strata below the Hith anhydrite.

The field trip will visit the outcrops of the most prolific oil-producing reservoir in the world and its seal – the Arab-D Member and the Hith Formation, respectively.

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This session includes abstract-only submissions for paper number(s): 22287

Abstract-only submissions denote that the author(s) have opted for abstract-only submission and these technical papers are not available in the Digital Proceedings.

This session includes abstract-only submissions for paper number(s): 22476

Abstract-only submissions denote that the author(s) have opted for abstract-only submission and these technical papers are not available in the Digital Proceedings.