Six report have been completed. Each report addresses a specific stratigraphic interval and geographic area.
| Date | Abbrev |
Title | Price |
| 1987 | NIJP |
Sedimentary Geology and Diagenetic History of the Jurassic to Permian Rocks of Northern Iraq | £25,000 |
| 1989 | NIC |
Sedimentary Geology and Diagenetic History of the Cretaceous Rocks of Northern Iraq |
£30,000 |
| 1991 | SYR |
Sedimentary Geology and Diagenetic History of the Ordovician to Tertiary Rocks of Syria | £25,000 |
| 1994 | SIC |
Sedimentary Geology and Diagenetic History of the Cretaceous Rocks of Southern Iraq | £28,500 |
| 1999 | IPA |
Palaeozoic of Iraq and Adjacent Areas: Petroleum Geology and Exploration Potential | £30,000 |
| 2003 | MOI |
Sedimentary Geology of the Mesozoic Outcrops of Iraq | £30,000 |
These reports provide a comprehensive description and interpretation of the lithology, facies, stratigraphy and diagenetic history of the main prospective sedimentary succession of Iraq and Syria. Reservoirs and seals are thoroughly documented, intervals with significant organic richness and oil shows are identified. Summaries of tectonic setting and other background information are also included. The results are placed in their broader context and exploration implications assessed, including discussion of established and new plays.
The University of Reading Middle East Archive contains a vast number of thin sections made from core, cuttings and outcrop samples. The thin sections were prepared on the rig site for many of the wells at 5 or 10 feet intervals throughout the complete penetrated section. These have been examined and described using petrographic microscopes. New epoxy-impregnated thin sections have been prepared from core and cuttings samples over critical intervals. Selected intervals have also been analysed using palaeontology/palynology, SEM and XRD techniques.
The format of each report is similar. A detailed petrographic log is presented for each well at a scale of 1 inch : 100 feet, with an accompanying well report giving full documentation and interpretation of the petrographic and supplementary analyses, including numerous photomicrographs to illustrate typical lithofacies, porosity types and other significant features. The results from the individual wells are drawn together in a regional synthesis and interpretation volume which includes discussion of the implications for petroleum exploration. The regional synthesis is illustrated with well correlations, isopach and facies maps, depositional models, summaries of tectonic settings etc.
The first three petrographic reports on North Iraq and Syria were based entirely on cuttings and core samples without access to wireline logs. These logs and other well data were subsequently donated to the Reading Archive and were incorporated into the later reports. The digtal wireline logs are available in the IPGRC Report. As part of this digitisation process the northern Iraq wells will be reinterpreted to tie into the wireline logs.