If you do not already have Acrobat Reader you may download the latest version here . This digitally compiled map includes geology, oil and gas field centerpoints, geologic provinces, and major faults of Iran with some of these components extended into geographically adjacent areas. The goal of the WEP is to assess the undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources of the world and report the result of this assessment in the year 2000. For data management purposes, the world was divided into eight energy regions corresponding approximately to the economic regions of the world as defined by the U.S. Department of State. Each world energy region was then further divided into geologic provinces on the basis of natural geologic entities and may include a dominant geologic structural element or a number of contiguous elements.
Some provinces contain multiple, genetically-related basins.
Geologic province boundaries for Iran were delineated using data from different geologic maps, publications, and other tectonic and geographic data. The list of provinces sorted by number is shown to the right of the map. The WEP further characterizes the geologic provinces by petroleum system and assessment units in order to assess the undiscovered petroleum volume. Specific details of map and data sources, and the procedure used in the compilation of this geologic map of Iran are given in the metadata file and described briefly in the text below. Stratigraphic subdivisions of Phanerozoic rocks were combined to simplify the geology and maintain consistency with other maps in this series.