Bangladesh is located over a major portion of the Bengal Basin that has undergone tectonic deformation during the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plate boundaries.
The basin has approximately 20km of Tertiary sediments that was shed from the emerging Himalayans and deposited in a spectrum of environments ranging from deep to shallow marine, to deltaic and fluvial settings.
As a consequence, this association of sandstones, source rocks and an assortment of trap configurations have created a region that is prospective for hydrocarbon exploration.
