The Renaissance Tour: A revival of frontier basins with data-driven exploration.
By Lauren Found, Searcher.
Lauren Found of Searcher Seismic took us on a global magical mystery tour from the offshore Papuan Basin to the Scotia Basin offshore Canada on the northern Atlantic margin and the Orange Basin, offshore Namibia with its conjugate the Pelotas Basin offshore Brazil and showed us new insights from new data and interpretation in these basins that make them look more interesting than previously thought.
Lauren showed a new crustal model for the Gulf of Papua interpreted from long offset 2D seismic data suggesting the presence of new and previously overlooked depocenters and the possibility of the continuation of the oil provinces that are prolific in the onshore. In the North Atlantic Scotian Basin, elusive reservoir fairways were demonstrated from Wide Azimuth Seismic Acquisition and in the south Atlantic the possible continuation of the Aptian source rocks of the currently hot Orange Basin into its conjugate, the Pelotas Basin offshore Brazil, was revealed based on AVO analysis of modern 3D seismic data.
The identification of Aptian source rocks by AVO analysis of modern high resolution 3D seismic data in the Orange Basin and the discrimination of overlying Cenomanian – Turonian reservoirs was particularly insightful given the recent spectacular successes at Mopane, Venus, Graff and others.
Thank you, Lauren, for an enlightening and engaging presentation.
Summary by Matt Fittal.
