Ghana Keta - Togo - Benin exploration basin

The Ghana Keta - Togo - Benin (KTB) Basin is part of the larger KTB Basin which stretches across offshore and onshore Nigeria, Ghana, Togo and Benin in the Gulf of Guinea. It is an abrupt margin basin, with a thick sedimentary fill. Compared to the giant discoveries of adjacent basins, such as those in the Niger Delta fan and the Cote d'Ivoire Basin in Ghana, the KTB Basin has yielded low discovered volumes. In Ghana, exploration has been sporadic and was confined to the onshore and shelf during the 1970s. Since 2003, four ultra-deepwater wells have been drilled in the Ghanaian part of the basin, without success. The 2013 Ogo discovery in the Nigeria section of the basin (770 mmboe) sparked new exploration interest at the time but activity levels have remained low. Our outlook analysis covers only deepwater exploration, as this is where activity is expected to be focused. Full details are available to download in excel and pdf format.