Atlantic Margin Petroleum Systems

 A 5 to 7-day field workshop in the Essaouira-Agadir Basin, Agana Basin and High Atlas, Western Morocco.   Examining the entire Central Atlantic Margin sequence from Paleozoic basement, Triassic continental rift sequences to Jurassic passive margin carbonates and Early Cretaceous paralic deposits, the feeder systems to potential offshore deepwater reservoirs. Regional tectonics and salt evolution.

Evaluate the tectono-stratigraphic framework, reservoir characterization, source to sink and depositional systems. Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous petroleum systems. Analogue to plays offshore Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, The Gambia and the Nova Scotia / US conjugate margin

North Africa Palaeozoic Plays

An overview of the geology of Eastern Morocco, which contains most elements of the prolific petroleum systems active across North Africa.  

The field localities have been chosen as being representative of the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic depositional systems in North Africa, to provide you with a broad overview of the main elements of the petroleum systems and the structural evolution of the basins. 

This workshop will also highlight the exploration potential of Morocco, which, as we will see, has a number of conventional and unconventional petroleum systems and plays in the region that are still largely untested. 

Fundy Basin - Nova Scotia

Examine the Triassic Fundy Basin, Eastern Canada and integrating outcrop and sub-surface data sets derived from coeval Permo-Triassic basins along the North Atlantic passive margin.

The course focuses on the characterisation of continental depositional systems in a rift setting from basin to pore scale and will also develop participants’ petroleum system and play analysis skills by examining the key elements of the Fundy Rift Basin from regional tectonics, reservoir development and characterisation to seal and source rock distribution.

Reservoir characterisation, depositional architecture, tectonics and petroleum systems analysis of continental depositional systems in a rift setting.