Asset Report
Angola Lower Congo exploration basin
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Report summary
The Lower Congo Basin is one of a series of prolific oil and gas producing basins along Africa’s Atlantic south conjugate margin. Despite its long exploration history, significant prospective resource exists, particularly within the deepwater Tertiary turbidites. Smaller volumes remain in the Cretaceous carbonate play within the shelf environment, where explorers can benefit from lower costs and shorter lead times. Explorers have the opportunity to create value in the basin, although high costs and PSC terms limit returns. Exploration activity has stalled in recent years, but we expect well numbers to pick up following recent drilling success.
Table of contents
- Advantages:
- Challenges:
- Pre-rift basement/sediments (pre-Cretaceous)
- Early Cretaceous rifting (Berriasian to Aptian) – Syn-rift
- Evaporite deposition (Aptian)
- Post-rift drift (Albian to present)
- Source Rocks
- Reservoir Rocks
- Seal Rocks
- Major Structures / Traps
- Wells drilled
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Prospective resources by play
- Cretaceous Shelf
- Oligocene-Miocene shelf
- Oligocene-Miocene Deepwater
- Cretaceous Deepwater
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Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Cross-section of the Angola Lower Congo basin and schematic development of stratigraphyGeneralised stratigraphic column of the Lower Congo basinReservoir tables
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Petroleum Events ChartSummary of Angola's major tectonic episodes, stratigraphy and gross depositional environmentsExploration plays mapWell lithology mapKey play characteristicsExploration history mapDrilling activity by well typeDiscoveries and success ratesTop 10 discoveries
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What's included
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