Is Brazil’s Prolific Pre-Salt Petroleum Geology a Template for Oil & Gas Exploration in West Africa?
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About 125 130 million years ago South America began to separate from Africa and as the continents drifted apart, an extensive rift valley was formed, containing large lakes with abundant organic material that had washed off the adjacent highlands. In Angola, these sediments are known as the Bucomazi formation, an exceedingly rich oil and gas source rock. The rift valleys are similar to the present-day East Africa rift system.
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