Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 1862390304
Published on: 1999-01
Hardcover
The South Atlantic petroleum province contains 4.3% of the world’s discovered oil reserves and 2.4% of the world’s discovered gas reserves. It contains a wide range of source rocks, reservoirs and trap types. There is a current sharp rise in reserve additions after technology has allowed for deepwater exploration. This book provides an overview of the geology for an area, which has only a fragmentary English language literature base. Special FeaturesIncludes a CD Rom of a tectonic features map, which is presented on an early drift reconstruction, together with maps for Brazil and a bibliography. Readership Petroleum geologists, exploration geochemists and biostratigraphers
Contents
Part I The geological and geophysical framework
1．Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the West African and eastern Brazilian margins: insights from quantitative basin modelling
2． The Mesozoic denudation history of the Atlantic margins of Southern Africa and South-East Brazil and the relationship to offshore sedimentation
3．History of Northeast Brazilian rift system: kinetic implications for the breakup between Brazil and W Africa
4．Deep seismic structure of the continental margin in the Gulf of Guinea: a summary report
5．Templates from mainland Africa and the Red Sea for interpreting the early evolution of the South Atlantic
Part II Oil and gas habitats
6．6.Western Africa: an unfinished story of oil and gas exploration
7．The distribution of petroleum reserves in basins of the South Atlantic margins
8．Tectonics and hydrocarbon distribution along the Brazilian South Atlantic margin
9．Structure, stratigraphy and petroleum habitats of South Africa’s Atlantic margin
Part III Organic geochemistry
10．Petroleum systems in the South Atlantic margin
11．Angola: source rock control for Lower Congo Coastal and Kwanza Basin petroleum systems
Part IV Applications
12． Upper Cretaceous palaeoenvironments and benthonic foraminiferal assemblages of potential source rocks from the W African margin, Central Atlantic
13． Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Upper Cretaceous sequence in the Tarfaya Basin (southwest of Morocco)
14．Tectono-sedimentary controls on Cretaceous black shale deposition along the opening Equatorial Atlantic gateway (ODP 159)
15． Miocene benthonic foraminiferal morphogroups in an oxygen minimum zone offshore Cabinda
16． Non-marine ostracod faunas of the Pre-Salt rift basins of W Africa and their role in sequence stratigraphy
17． Ridge barrier: its influence on palaeoenvironments and source rock generation deduced from ostracod distributions in the early South Atlantic
Part V Exploration studies and issues
18．Detachment faulting and petroleum prospectivity in the Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa • The interpretation of passive margin depositional processes using seismic stratigraphy: examples from offshore Namibia
19．Onshore equivalents of the main Kudu gas reservoir in Namibia
20． Facies architecture of the Etjo Sandstone Fm. & its interaction with the Basal Entendeka Flood Basalts of NW Namibia: implications for offshore prospectivity
21． The Namib Rift: a rift system of possible Karoo age, offshore Namibia
22．Plateau evolution and a mobile southernmost South America
23． Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the North Falkland Region • Evidence for multi-phase rifting in the North Falklands Basin
24． Basin evolution and sedimentary fill in the Palaeozoic sequences of the Falkland Islands
