West Africa Presalt Exploration: Background and Perspective of the West African “Tupi” Myth
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Published:December 01, 2012
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Fabio Lottaroli, Paolo Andreotti, Lorenzo Meciani, 2012. "West Africa Presalt Exploration: Background and Perspective of the West African “Tupi” Myth", 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
In West Africa, the presalt is an established play since the 1950s. Even so, only recently has the expectations for a potential extension of the Brazilian Santos/ Campos basins proven presalt carbonate play boosted spectacular interest in the Kwanza basin (south Angola). The “Sag carbonate Play” has gained most of the attention and promises to be the real “sweet spot” of future presalt exploration, at least in Angola. Moreover, new technologies and ideas allow us to reexamine the great complexity of the presalt play on the historically explored trend (onshore and in conventional waters) along the whole West African...
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New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World

GeoRef
- Africa
- Angola
- Asia
- Atlantic Ocean
- Cabinda Angola
- carbonate rocks
- Central Africa
- chemically precipitated rocks
- Congo Basin
- Cuanza Basin
- evaporites
- lacustrine environment
- Middle East
- oil and gas fields
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- reservoir rocks
- sedimentary rocks
- source rocks
- South Atlantic
- subsalt strata
- Turkey
- West Africa
- Toca Formation
- Pamukkale Travertine
- Tupi Field
- Lula Field