Breaking Up is Hard to do - Using Regional Geophysics and Multi-Scale Earth Models for Integrated Basin Analysis and Pre-Salt Reservoir Prediction in the South Atlantic

Regional potential fields data and digital elevation models provide critical input into multi-scale earth models and inter-disciplinary basin analysis to determine fundamental controls on pre-salt petroleum systems. Using both commercial and proprietary geophysical studies, we have constructed models from the global to the reservoir scale that predict the influence of plate tectonics, paleogeography, climate, and basement structure on pre-salt reservoirs in the south Atlantic.