oa Abrupt Margins - Dawn of a New Exploration Era

Within the last few years, exploration companies have applied principles of plate tectonics to extend and relate upper cretaceous turbidites fan plays westward from West Africa across the Equatorial Atlantic to French Guiana and Brazil and other countries of South America. Before Ghana oil discoveries, gravity tectonic was seen as for the main success key of the deep water exploration activities with the most favorable environment to preserve large accumulations in structural closures, highly prolific when HC charging is recent.