Extending the Potential Prospectivity Offshore Northwest Africa with Enhanced Imaging of the Palaeo-Shelf Edge Play

Summary The North West African Atlantic Margin with the MSGBC basin area covering Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Guinea Bissau and Guinea Conakry being one of the hottest areas in Africa currently, a new modern and continuous 3D dataset finalized early 2020, now allows to correlate a full suite of regional interpretation, well correlation and basin modelling base values to be extended and tested for spectral signature of proposed source rocks, anomaly response of known reservoirs, full scale traps and volumes, and possible migration paths; all in high resolution 3D across the margin. After this study is completed, the results set a well calibrated, modern baseline for the shelf edge and deepwater hydrocarbon exploration offshore the MSGBC basin, providing play fairways and structural details, evaluated for maturity and trap volumes with the future addition of further acquired ultra-deepwater seismic 3D surveys.