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Tano Basin Imaging Underpins New Ivorian Exploration
Offshore Africa
|October 2024
Since emerging as West Africa’s new oil and gas exploration sensation, Cote d’Ivoire is vigorously pursuing a programme to acquire high-end imaging to enhance a broader understanding and de-risk the full play potential of the exciting Tano Basin.
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The West African nation is currently re-imaging a significant portion (up to 16,000km2) of the Ivorian margin to provide the industry with a solid foundation to build a regional understanding and de-risk the play potential of the Tano Basin.
The play-opening giant discoveries of Baleine and Murene- (Calao) offshore Tano Basin have reinvigorated exploration in the equatorial margin of Africa. The basin is geologically complex and has proven its unparalleled hydrocarbon potential.
The re-imaging project will be completed by Q4 2024 and the final re-imaging results will provide interpreters with a state-of-the-art seismic volume to explore even the subtle stratigraphic and/ or combination trap prospects.
This will allow for further work entailing AVO analysis to delineate anomalies and amplitude signatures that could be consistent with direct hydrocarbon indicators, followed by rock physics work to calibrate these anomalie to further de-risk the basin.
This story is from the October 2024 edition of Offshore Africa.
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