Asset Report
Gabon Gabon exploration basin
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Report summary
The Gabon Basin is bordered by the Rio Muni Basin in the north and the Lower Congo basin to the south. It comprises the vast majority of Gabon’s licensed acreage, extending from the ultra-deepwater in the west, across the continental shelf and coast to the onshore jungle interior. The shelf and onshore areas of the basin are considered relatively mature. Several exploration opportunities remain open. Onshore activity has focused on the Cretaceous pre-salt horizons, whilst offshore activity has been primarily focused on post-salt reservoirs. However, deepwater drilling in the post-salt has yielded few returns, and future activity is expected to focus on the pre-salt: Total's Diaman discovery in 2013 proved the existence of a working hydrocarbon system, which was confirmed by Shell's Leopard gas field discovery in 2014. Value will only be created from such gas finds when a viable gas monetisation scheme is developed, be it a domestic market or via LNG exports.
Table of contents
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Summary of commercial outlook
- Advantages:
- Challenges:
- Play inputs – Cretaceous Onshore (pre-salt)
- Play inputs – Cretaceous Shelf (post-salt)
- Play inputs – Cretaceous Deepwater (pre-salt)
- Wells drilled
- Company activity
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Prospective resources by play
- Cretaceous Deepwater
- Cretaceous Shelf
- Cretaceous Onshore
- Prospective resource costs and underlying development assumptions
- Prospect economics - Cretaceous Deepwater
- Prospect economics - Cretaceous Shelf (post-salt)
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Prospect economics - Cretaceous Onshore (pre-salt)
- Full-cycle basin economics
- Oil and gas prices
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Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Key reservoir characteristics
- Key reservoir characteristics
- Key reservoir characteristics
- Exploration history map
- Drilling activity by well type
- Discoveries and success rates
- Top 10 discoveries
- Current acreage holders
- Cretaceous Deepwater (pre-salt)
- Cretaceous Shelf (post-salt)
- Cretaceous Onshore (pre-salt)
- Summary of discovery and development costs
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What's included
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