The Structural Evolution of the Hodna Basin and Its Impact on the Hydrocarbon Distribution, Algeria

P23 THE STRUCTURAL EVOLUTION OF THE HODNA BASIN AND ITS IMPACT ON THE HYDROCARBON DISTRIBUTION ALGERIA 1 H.L. KHEIDRI and K. HAMOUDI Sonatrach AMT/EXP. Algeria Introduction The Hodna basin belongs to the Maghrebides outer zones the southern section of the Alpine foldbelt.It is located across the tellian nappes in the north and foreland hodnean type in the south. This latter disappears northward under the tellian nappes (Fig 1). The Oued Gueterini field (Sidi Aïssa area) constitutes the first discovered oil field in Algeria producing from the tellian nappes. The Eocene limestones in the tellian nappes constitute the main reservoirs levels