Spectrum’s Neil Hodgson and Karyna Rodriguez present an analysis of the prospectivity of the region which shows that the next big play is offshore Guinea Bissau.
The recent glut of giant oil and gas hydrocarbon discoveries on the North West African coast began in 2014 with the SNE-1 discovery by Cairn in Senegal. This play-making well targeted Albian sandstones and Aptian carbonates in a structural trap, at the eroded edge of the Early Cretaceous platform margin.
There are a number of interesting play elements at work in this play that require definition so that a model can be extracted and reused elsewhere along the margin in the chase for analogue traps. Where we will end up is Guinea Bissau, Senegal’s southern neighbour, where the plays is as yet unexplored yet appears to have an even more promising potential, but first – SNE.
http://www.spectrumgeo.com/geologic...rary/guinea-bissau-hottest-shelf-margin-earth
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