Two Margins, One Cretaceous Play: Where South Atlantic Exploration Capital Goes Next
Webinar in partnership with AAPG. Now available on-demand!
Now available to watch on-demand
Brazil's Santos Basin and the Southwest African Coastal Basin sit at opposite ends of the exploration lifecycle. One is approaching 50 years of drilling; the other is barely tested. But narrow the view to the Upper Cretaceous Sandstone play they share and they become near-perfect geological conjugates, delivering comparable reservoir quality and resource scale on economics that diverge sharply by fiscal regime.
Drawing on Wood Mackenzie's Conventional Plays in Lens, covering 471 plays, 103 basins and more than 34,000 exploration and appraisal wells, this webinar will start with benchmarking five South Atlantic basins and then narrowing focus to the South Atlantic’s next frontier.
During this webinar, you'll learn:
- Why the SW African Coastal Basin is the most credible analogue for a re-imaged Santos ultra-deepwater campaign.
- How fiscal regime, not subsurface, drives the value gap.
- Where the next round of capital is going.
Meet the speakers
Fiona Piggott
Research Analyst, CCUS Subsurface
Fiona Piggott
Research Analyst, CCUS Subsurface
Fiona works on insights and analysis for CCUS subsurface in the US Gulf of Mexico, US Gulf Coast and Latin America.