RE: Suriname etc2 Jul 2019 07:46
The Suriname Basin is largely unexplored and has a very significant remaining potential. With only 22 wells drilled offshore, of which 17 had hydrocarbons, and a seismic grid of 5-10 km on average, the basin potential has not been evaluated properly. The geological ingredients all point to good prospectivity, except that structuration is mild and stratigraphic traps are more ubiquitous than structural closures, which calls for more detailed seismic grids than are currently available.
Staatsolie developed a number of new geological concepts based on recent seismic and aeromagnetic data, as well as on existing information. Based on this new thinking, a number of untested plays were developed, and this work shows that the basin holds significant potential in stratigraphic as well as structural plays. Charge is no issue in Suriname, and numerous reservoir-seal pairs do exist throughout the Mesozoic-Tertiary sequence. From 2002