Welcome to Avana Petroleum
Despite the current problems in the world economy, oil exploration continues apace with an eye to the inevitable economic recovery as well as the huge unrealised demand in new developing economies such as China and India. Competition for energy supplies is driving critical concerns surrounding the security of current energy supplies.
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The Breakup of Gondwana
The technical coherence of Avana’s core geographical area lies in the fact that 200 million years ago, in the early Jurassic, its areas of interest were juxtaposed when today’s southern continents, with India, were parts of a super-continent called Gondwana. For this reason, the region is host to widely distributed, oil prone, Triassic to Jurassic source rocks that underpin most of the active modern hydrocarbons systems in the western Indian Ocean, the East African margin and the western margin of the Indian subcontinent.