Asset Report
Congo Lower Congo exploration basin
Report summary
Congo's share of the Lower Congo Basin captures the northern end of the key play fairways that have yielded over 24 billion boe further south in Angola. These include a continuation of the Cretaceous (post-salt) carbonate play in shallow water (Congo's Sendji Formation correlates with Angola's Pinda Formation), and emerging plays in the pre-salt (Cretaceous) and deepwater (Tertiary). The long-standing Sendji play, which accounts for most production, is now mature. Explorers are turning their attention to new plays and have achieved good returns. Recent success has been from the pre-salt, most recently in shallow water (Nene Marine).
Table of contents
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Summary of commercial outlook
- Advantages:
- Challenges:
- Wells drilled
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Prospective resources by play
- Tertiary Deepwater
- Cretaceous Pre-salt Shelf
- Prospect economics - cretaceous pre-salt shelf
- Prospect economics - tertiary deepwater
- Full-cycle basin economics
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
- Oil and gas prices
Tables and charts
This report includes 23 images and tables including:
- Exploration history map
- Drilling activity by well type
- Discoveries and success rates
- Top 10 discoveries
- Acreage holders
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Cretaceous Pre-salt Shelf
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Tertiary deepwater
- Typical fiscal terms
- Brent and local oil price assumptions
- Exploration plays map
- Key play characteristics
- Creaming curve
- Prospective resource summary
- Creaming curve
- Prospective resource summary
- Tertiary deepwater
- Cretaceous pre-salt shelf
- Summary of discovery and development costs
What's included
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