The Oil and Gas Habitats of the South Atlantic

by Clure, Val S.; Bate, Raymond Holmes; Cameron, N. R.; Geological Society of London

• ISBN13: 9781862390300
• ISBN10: 1862390304
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Geological Society Pub House

Table of Contents

Oil and gas habitants of the South Atlantic: Introduction	1	(10)
Cameron, N. R.
Bate, R. H.
Clure, V. S.
Benton, J.
The Geological and geophysical framework
Tectonic and stratigraphic development of the West African and eastern Brazilian Margins: insights from quantitative basin modelling	11	(30)
Karner, G. D.
Driscoll, N. W.
The Mesozoic denudation history of the Atlantic margins of southern Africa and southeast Brazil and the relationship to offshore sedimentation	41	(14)
Gallagher, K.
Brown, R.
History of the northeast Brazilian rift system: kinetic implications for the break-up between Brazil and West Africa	55	(20)
Darros de Matos, R. M.
Deep seismic structure of the continental margin in the Gulf of Guinea; a summary report	75	(10)
Rosendahl, B. R.
Groschel-Becker, H.
Templates from mainland Africa and the Red Sea for interpreting the early evolution of the South Atlantic	85	(12)
Crossley, R.
Cripps, D.
Oil and gas habitats
Western Africa: an unfinished story of oil and gas exploration	97	(4)
Dolan, P.
The distribution of petroleum reserves in basins of the South Atlantic margins	101	(32)
Coward, M. P.
Purdy, E. G.
Ries, A. C.
Smith, D. G.
Tectonics and hydrocarbon distribution along the Brazilian South Atlantic margin	133	(20)
Davison, I.
Petroleum habitats of the Atantic margin of South Africa	153	(16)
Jungslager, E. H. A.
Organic geochemistry
Petroleum systems in the South Atlantic margins	169	(12)
Schiefelbein, C. F.
Zumberge, J. E.
Cameron, N. R.
Brown, S. W.
Angola: source rock control for Lower Congo Coastal and Kwanza Basin petroleum systems	181	(14)
Burwood, R.
Applications
Upper Cretaceous palaeoenvironments and benthonic foraminiferal assemblages of potential source rocks from the western African margin, Central Atlantic	195	(28)
Holbourn, A.
Kuhnt, W.
el Albani, A.
Pletsch, T.
Luderer F.
Wagner, T.
Palaeoenvironmental evolution of the Late Cretaceous sequence in the Tarfaya Basin (southwest of Morocco)	223	(18)
el Albani, A.
Kuhnt, W.
Luderer, F.
Herbin, J. P.
Caron, M.
Tectono-sedimentary controls on Cretaceous black shale deposition along the opening of the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway (ODP Leg 159)	241	(26)
Wagner, T.
Pletsch, T.
Miocene benthonic foraminiferal morphogroups in an oxygen minimum zone, offshore Cabinda	267	(16)
Preece, R. C.
Kaminski, M. A.
Dignes, T. W.
Non-marine ostracod assemblages of the Pre-Salt rift basins of West Africa and their role in sequence stratigraphy	283	(10)
Bate, R. H.
Walvis Ridge barrier: its influence on palaeoenvironments and source rock generation deduced from ostracod distributions in the early South Atlantic Ocean	293	(10)
Dingle, R. V.
Exploration studies and issues
Detachment faulting and petroleum prospectivity in the Rio Muni Basin, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa	303	(18)
Turner, J. P.
The interpretation of passive margin depositional processes using seismic stratigraphy: examples from offshore Namibia	321	(24)
Bagguley, J.
Prosser, S.
Onshore equivalents of the main Kudu gas reservoir in Namibia	345	(22)
Stanistreet, I. G.
Stollhofen, H.
Facies architecture of the Etjo Sandstone Formation and its interaction with the Basal Etendeka Flood Basalts of northwest Namibia: implications for offshore prospectivity	367	(14)
Jerram, D. A.
Mountney, N.
Stollhofen, H.
The Namib Rift: a rift system of possible Karro age, offshore Namibia	381	(22)
Clemson, J.
Cartwright, J.
Swart, R.
Falkland Plateau evolution and a mobile southernmost South America	403	(6)
Barker, P. F.
Tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the North Falkland region	409	(16)
Lawrence, S. R.
Johnson, M.
Tubb, S. R.
Marshallsea, S. J.
Evidence for multi-phase rifting in the North Falklands Basin	425	(20)
Bransden, P. J. E.
Burges, P.
Durham, M. J.
Hall, J. G.
Basin evolution and sedimentary fill in the Palaeozoic sequences of the Falkland Islands	445	(20)
Meadows, N. S.
Index	465