Research in Senegal
NARG has initiated work in the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea Bissau-Conarky (MSGBC) Basin following the Atlantic margin petroleum systems south. One of the key countries NARG is focusing on is Senegal after signing an MoU with Petrosen (NOC) to begin evaluating Mesozoic depositional systems onshore and offshore through a data sharing agreement.
Current projects
Recent world-class discoveries in the Mauritania-Senegal-Guinea Bissau-Conarky (MSGBC) Basin by oil companies sponsoring the North Africa Research Group (NARG) have attracted the attention of our current research. Mesozoic stratigraphy in the MSGBC Basin records the post-rift evolution of the North West African Atlantic passive margin following late Triassic rifting. These strata constitute to numerous new hydrocarbon plays that oil companies are chasing in the whole Central Atlantic region.
The project aims to progress the understanding of the Mesozoic tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the MSGBC Basin and wider Central Atlantic region using a multi-disciplinary, integrated approach to basin analysis. The study has been split into two distinct phases; the first will aim to create a new integrated stratigraphic framework for the Central Atlantic region by collecting new core samples from IODP cores, outcrop data from Maio – Cape Verde and Cap de Naze – Senegal, and exploration well data from onshore Senegal and offshore Suriname. Following this, the stratigraphic framework will be applied to regional seismic data in the MSGBC Basin to understand the spatially and temporal controls on depositional systems.
Max Casson (Ph.D) is working on the 'sink' part of this project with supervision from Jonathan Redfern, Luc Bulot, Jason Jeremiah and Mads Huuse.
At Delft, Giovanni Bertotti is aiming to quantify uplift in the source area using low-T geochronology tools.
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