New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World

Field-Scale Stratigraphy and Depositional Elements of a Slope Channel System and Implications for Reservoir Dynamics; A Case Study from the Angolan Margin
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Published:December 01, 2012
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Luz Sophia Cobos, Mike Mayall, Tim Primmer, Rosa Osvaldo, 2012. "Field-Scale Stratigraphy and Depositional Elements of a Slope Channel System and Implications for Reservoir Dynamics; A Case Study from the Angolan Margin", New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World, Norman C. Rosen, Paul Weimer, Sylvia Maria Coutes dos Anjos, Sverre Henrickson, Edmundo Marques, Mike Mayall, Richard Fillon, Tony D’Agostino, Art Saller, Kurt Campion, Tim Huang, Rick Sarg, Fred Schroeder
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Abstract
The imaging of deep-water turbidite slope-channel systems in Offshore Angola has improved greatly during the past decade through the acquisition of high resolution seismic surveys. Within the Marte Field, located in Block 31 NE, high resolution seismic data provides greater definition of the internal stratigraphy of third-order channel complexes. Fourth-order channel cuts and associated facies, including muddy slumps, within the third-order systems have been mapped in considerable detail. Better definition of the internal depositional architecture reveals a high degree of heterogeneity within the channel systems and offers insights into the fluid dynamics of Marte Field reservoir systems. Improvements on...
- Africa
- amplitude
- Angola
- anticlines
- Atlantic Ocean
- Cenozoic
- Central Africa
- channels
- clastic rocks
- debris flows
- deep-water environment
- deposition
- depositional environment
- elastic waves
- faults
- folds
- geophysical methods
- geophysical profiles
- geophysical surveys
- lithofacies
- lithostratigraphy
- Lower Congo Basin
- mass movements
- Miocene
- mudstone
- Neogene
- oil and gas fields
- petroleum
- reservoir rocks
- salt tectonics
- sandstone
- sedimentary rocks
- seismic attributes
- seismic methods
- seismic profiles
- shale
- slumping
- South Atlantic
- surveys
- tectonics
- Tertiary
- thrust faults
- turbidite
- Marte Field