Understand the regional controls underpinning some of the world’s key frontier exploration provinces in the South and Central Atlantic. Save considerable time in your own researches in these regions. Learn how to assess the key factors controlling exploration success and failure in the region and in particular the complications involved in identifying pre-salt and turbidite plays.  Acquire a methodology to assess opportunities through a petroleum systems ‘checklist’ approach, with attention to key issues such as tectonic history, heat flow, reservoir quality and petroleum generation history.

This course aims at providing participants with the ‘regional picture’ that controls the complex play systems of the Central and South Atlantic using largely unpublished material gathered from the authors own regional work and attendance at scores of conferences on the region, many organised by himself. By presenting these regional models during the course and in a detailed manual full of paleotectonic- paleogeographic maps, stratigraphic charts and play cross-sections, the course aims to save participants the equivalents of hundreds of thousands of dollars on mantime conducting regional research, so that they can then concentrate on their own ventures and prospects. Specific attention is paid to the pre-salt plays of the South Atlantic, and the complex interrelated tectonic, depositional and geochemical models that are now being unravelled for these plays. Recent well results are reviewed and explained. The lectures are interspersed with numerous case studies analysing each of the key regional controls, some of which will be run as group discussions and guided exercises.

Pre-Salt and Rift Plays : Tectonic Framework

• Central Atlantic rifting and breakup
• Evolution of South Atlantic rifting
• Rift, Syn-Transform and Sag Sequences
• Continental break-up models and their influence on plays
• Inversions and effects of fracture zones
• Nature and Location of Continental-Oceanic Transition Zones
• Generation of heat during rifting and breakup – Present Day analogues

Pre-Salt and Rift Plays : Petroleum System Elements

• Paleogeographic Framework
• Carbonate Reservoirs – Types, Models, Controls on Distribution and Quality
• Clastic Reservoirs – Controls on Distribution and Quality
• Syn-rift source rocks
• Maturity and generation history – effects of heat flow during rifting and breakup
• Seals
• Main play types

Pre-Salt and Rift Plays : The Aptian Salt Basin

• Brazilian carbonate provinces – Campos and Santos Basins
• Type West Africa carbonate province – Kwanza Basin
• Review of recent well results
• Brazilian clastic provinces – Reconcavo Basin example
• Type West African clastic province – South Gabon
• Review of recent well results- complex plays in North Gabon

Syn-Rift and Syn-Transform plays elsewhere

• South of Walvis Bay Ridge
• Equatorial Margin – Brazil, Cote-D’Ivoire, Ghana etc
• Central Atlantic

Break-Up and Drift Sequences - Tectonic and Paleogeographic Models

• Plate Tectonic history of Central and South Atlantic
• Types of margin : divergent, volcanic, oblique and transform
• Paleogeographic and paleoclimatic history
• Heat flow history and effects on maturation of source rocks

Turbidite Play Controls

• Source to sink analysis
• Evolution of drainage systems
• Link to key issue of reservoir thickness
• Controls on reservoir quality – drainage, facies, mineralogy, burial, heat
• Charge models – pre-salt, rift and post-salt/rift
• Trapping – effects of structure, controls on stratigraphic trapping
• Seismic attribute analysis and DHIs

Geologists and geophysicists or exploration managers that are involved in the assessment of new exploration opportunities, acreage and prospects in the Central or South Atlantic. This is an advanced Level course and a basic knowledge of petroleum geology and in particular of petroleum systems is required.

Exploration & Development Department
Geologists
Geophysicists
Exploration Managers
Geoscientists
Petroleum Engineers

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