Location Map Sea Lion FI61/051 Toroa The FOGL acreage (in Yellow) lies to the south and east of the Falklands. The Falklands Plateau and surrounding basins are located at the eastern edge of the South American continent.…
Basin Comparison (49,000sqkm) Gulf of Mexico Comparison North Sea Comparison FOGL has a very large acreage position as shown above by superimposing the FOGL licences onto maps of the North Sea and Gulf of Mexico - at the same scale.
Plate Tectonic Reconstructions of the South Atlantic Source: ODSN The Falkland Plateau basins formed as a result of the break-up of the Gondwana supercontinent in the Jurassic period. This continental mass comprised of, what are…
The Falkland Islands as a Source of Good Quality Reservoir Sands Source area for quartzitic sand B A B A NW SE B B A A The Falkland Islands and the plateau that extends to the east of the islands, is dominantly…
2012 Drilling Programme Northern Licences The Toroa well was drilled on the edge The DSDP wells (see page 1 and inset of the Fitzroy sub-basin near the ancient below) were drilled in a continuation of shoreline. The first target in…
Depositional Settings and Reservoir Development This diagram shows present day marine depositional environments that are similar to those being targeted in the plays in the East Falklands Basin. Toroa was drilled into sediments that…
Play Types North Tertiary South Channel Play 1,500 5,000 ft Analogue: Marlim Complex Mid Cretaceous (Campos Basin, Brazil) Fan Play Analogue: Jubilee Field (Tullow, Ghana) Loligo, Nimrod, Vinson x Toroa Hero, Scotia…
The Springhill Fault Block Play Areas of Development in the East Falklands Basin Hersilia Fan Area
Inflexible Prospect Springhill Play Inflexible is a large well defined tilted fault block along strike from the B&S Darwin prospect Inflexible has mean prospective resources of 253 million bbls A site survey was completed in 2011…
Mid Cretaceous Basin Floor Fans Areas of Development in the East Falklands Basin Hersilia Fan Area
Jubilee Analogue: Ghana Scotia/Jubilee Jubilee is a mid Cretaceous fan formed at the Shelf Bypassed slope Basin Floor Fan base of slope like Scotia Jubilee source and reservoir are mid Cretaceous like Scotia Close proximity lowers…
Tertiary Channel Play Areas of Development in the East Falkland Basin The Tertiary Channel Play is widespread in the basin but is not present at the Toroa well location. The best prospects within the play lie in the northern Licences…
Loligo Location Above Old Basin High The map illustrates the thickness of sediment in the two sub-basins at about 140 millions years ago (the Valanginian). Two sub basins clearly exist separated by a large intra basin high. This is…
Loligo This seismic section through the massive Loligo prospect shows the oil migration pathway from the adjacent basins, the probable vertical migration and the large seismic amplitude (bright) that is associated with feature. The…
Loligo AVO Class III Amplitude Brightens with Offset Near Amplitudes Far Amplitudes AVO Response Summary Moderate Bright Loligo AVO Dim Dim Simple Gulf of Mexico style Class III moderately bright on near offset, very…
Loligo NW 2635m The Loligo Complex (see inset map) is formed by the vertical stacking of several different prospects. The sands that form the stacked targets were shed from different parts of the basin at different times.…
Play Openers Prospect Hopper FOGL Play Licence Pmean Prospects Area Prospective Resources Loligo Loligo Tertiary Channel Northern 4700 Nimrod Tertiary Channel Northern 1500 Vinson Tertiary Channel Northern 733 Scotia Scotia…
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