Deep-water Exploration in Atlantic Morocco: Where Are the Reservoirs?

摘要: The Moroccan salt basin remains one of the least explored west African basins. Although small producing fields in onshore Essaouira Basin exist, so far, only subcommercial discoveries on shelf have been made. During last decade, three exploration wells were drilled deep water between and Tarfaya central segment Atlantic margin Morocco. These documented a general lack reservoir-facies siliciclastics within Cenozoic Upper Cretaceous deep-water sequence. Compared to other segments margin, has had fairly complex structural history since Middle Jurassic breakup North American–African plates involving several well-documented Alpine compressional periods mountain building adjacent Atlas Mountains. In particular, as Neogene–Holocene inversion, uplift, erosion system is very well onshore, apparent reservoirs first came surprise. Therefore, reservoir presence, most critical risk factor needs be better understood before new can drilled. Based regional evidence, Lower sequences are interpreted significantly more sand prone areas than overlying strata.