Paleoecologic and Organic Geochemical Assessment of Cretaceous Hydrocarbon Source Rocks in the Gulf of Guinea: New Insights from Eastern Dahomey and Benue Rift Basins with Implications for the Cenomanian-Coniacian Petroleum System, #50722 (2012)

Samuel O. Akande, Olabisi A. Adekeye, James A. Adeoye, Neeka Jacob, benga Lufadeju

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... from Cote d’I Voire, Ghana, Togo and Benin into the flanks of the Niger Delta Basin. The basins evolved from tectonism involving block and transform...

Integrated Reservoir Quality Study of Deep-Water Clastic Deposits, Offshore Western Niger Delta, Nigeria, #30342 (2014).

C.U. Ugwueze, P.L. Osterloff, L.C. Amajor, N.E. Ajaegwu

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... to the future prospectivity of oil blocks in the offshore basin. Youngest known Age Benin Formation Agbada Formation 2. Aim & Objectives of Study Surface...

Sequence Stratigraphy, Chronostratigraphy, and Spatio-Temporal Stratigraphic Thickness Variation of the Agbada Formation, Robertkiri and Delta Fields, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Adewale Amosu, Yuefeng Sun

GCAGS Transactions

... farther basinward. The cycle is then repeated. The three main formations of the Niger Delta are the Akata, Agbada, and Benin formations (Avbovbo, 1978; Knox...

A Quantitative Model for Salt Deposition in Actively Spreading Basins; #30117 (2010)

Bernard Montaron and Paul Tapponnier

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... Basins The salt basins that face one-another between the Rio Grande rise and the Gulf of Benin are among the largest along Phanerozoic passive ocean...

Rapid Adjustment of Submarine Channel Architecture To Changes In Sediment Supply

Zane R. Jobe, Zoltán Sylvester,, Andrew O. Parker, Nick Howes, Niall Slowey, Carlos Pirmez

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

..., N., Savoye, B., Cremer, M., and Bez, M., 2004, Multiple terraces within the deep incised Zaire Valley (ZaïAngo Project): are they confined levees...

In Search of the Arthrophycus Parallelus Tracemaker

Danita S. Brandt, Jayme Csonka, Megan Holycross, Victoria McCoy, Megan Seitz

PALAIOS

...://tolweb.org/Isopoda/6320/ 1997.08.06, in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/. Checked December 2011. BUATOIS, L.A., MANGANO, M.G., MAPLES...

Oil Source Bed Deposition and Occurrence on Active Continental Margins

Gerard Demaison

Pacific Section SEPM

... of California: California Div. Mines Bull. 118, 778 p. Klingebiel, A., 1976, Sediments et milieuz sedimentaries dans le Golfe du Benin: Centre Recherche Pau-SNPA...

Uncertainty Analysis in a Mature Field: Dibi Field Case Study

Djuro Novakovic, Joy Roth

AAPG Special Volumes

... of the first three-dimensional (3-D) seismic survey in the Benin River area. The field was brought online in May 1998 with peripheral water injection starting...

The Orinoco turbidite system: Tectonic controls on sea-floor morphology and sedimentation

Yannick Callec, Eric Deville, Guy Desaubliaux, Roger Griboulard, Pascale Huyghe, Alain Mascle, Georges Mascle, Mark Noble, Crelia Padron de Carillo, Julien Schmitz

AAPG Bulletin

..., Migration-aggradation history and 3-D seismic geomorphology of submarine channels in the Pleistocene Benin-major Canyon, western Niger Delta slope: Marine...

Extended Abstract: Regional Geological Study and Potential Prediction of the Rio Del Rey Basin (RDR), Offshore Cameroon

Khalid O. Altayeb, Su Yushan, Wu Shixiang, Chen Zhankun

Africa Energy and Technology Conference, 2016

... of Benin sands were all identified. The main 3D seismic data used in this regional study was basically merged from different sets that almost cover about...

Review on exploration of rock aquifers

Vynotdni, Edy Tonnizam Mohamad, Ibrahim Komoo, Mariatul Kiftiah, Al Mujida

Geological Society of Malaysia (GSM)

... of Benin, West Africa. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 139, 341-353. Chandra, S., Dewandel, B., Dutta, S. & Ahmed, S., 2010. Geophysical model...

Organic Matter of Agbada Formation, Niger Delta, Nigeria

Joseph I. Nwachukwu, Patricia I. Chukwura

AAPG Bulletin

... in southern Nigeria, between lat. 4° and 6°N and long. 3° and 9°E. It is bounded in the west by the Benin flank, and in the east by the Calabar flank...

Relationships Among Oils and Water Compositions in Niger Delta

Parke A. Dickey , G. O. George , Colin Barker

AAPG Bulletin

...) into three formations (from the surface down): the Benin Formation, which is more than 90% sand, mostly unconsolidated; the Agbada Formation, which...

EXTENDED ABSTRACT: Proto-Oceanic Crust in the North and South Atlantic: types, characteristics, emplacement mechanisms, and its Influence on Deep and Ultra-Deep Water Exploration; #90022 (2002)

Mark E. Odegard, William G. Dickson, Bruce R. Rosendahl, Ralf J. Weger

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... a Trend from Congo to Benin, Poster, HGS International Explorationists Meeting, June. Dickson, W., A.L. Danforth and M.E. Odegard (2002) Gravity...

ABSTRACT Geological Framework of Nigeria Linked Shelf Extension and Deepwater Thrust Belts, #90123 (2011)

David Steele, Joe Ejedawe, Tola Adeogba, Colin Grant, Jacek Filbrandt, Herwig Ganz

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... oceanic crust. The outer thrust belts extend for 600km, rimming the deepwater basin from Benin to Equatorial Guinea in ultradeep water depths of 2000...

Structural History of Atlantic Margin of Africa

P. Lehner , P. A. C. De Ruiter

AAPG Bulletin

... (Ivory Coast, Ghana) and the Benin basin in Togo and Benin. The rifting stage in this part of the Atlantic probably began during the Late Jurassic...

Sedimentology and Characteristics of Dispersed Organic Matter in Tertiary Niger Delta: Origin of Source Rocks in a Deltaic Environment

R. M. Bustin

AAPG Bulletin

.... 10, p. 89-108. Klingebiel, A., 1976, Sediments et milieux sedimentaires dans le Golfe du Benin: Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Exploration...

Plate Tectonic Consequences of Competing Models for the Origin and History of the Banda Sea Subducted Oceanic Lithosphere

Christian Heine, Leonardo Quevedo, Hamish McKay, R. Dietmar Müller

Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA)

... a continental transfer margin, akin to the Keta-Togo-Benin margin segment in the Equatorial Atlantic. Seismicity in the western Arafura Sea indicates...

AAPG International Conference and Exhibition, September 10-13, 1995, Nice, France, - Abstracts, #90956 (1995).

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Tectono-Sequence Stratigraphic Interpretation of Late Miocene to Early Pliocene Deposits of Shallow Offshore, Niger Delta, #20246 (2014)

Norbert Ajaegwu, Berthrand Ozumba, Izuchukwu Obiadi, Emmanuel Anakwuba, David Anomneze, Gabriel Okeugo, Charles Ugwueze

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...., 1996). Well sections through the Niger Delta generally display three vertical lithofacies subdivisions, namely the Benin, the Agbada and the Akata...

NAPE and AAPG West Africa Deepwater Regional Conference, November 14-18, 2004; #90037 (2005)

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Punctuated Deep-Water Channel Migration: High-Resolution Subsurface Data from the Lucia Chica Channel System, Offshore California, U.S.A.—Discussion

Ven Kolla

Journal of Sedimentary Research (SEPM)

...., and O'Byrne, C., 2007, Migration–aggradation history and 3D seismic geomorphology of submarine channels in the Benin–Major Canyon, western Niger...

Côte dIvoire: Completing the Jigsaw

Matthew Tyrrell, Ibrahima Diaby, PGS

GEO ExPro Magazine

... sealing provided up-dip by late-stage faulting similar to that at Jubilee (Tullow, 2008). In the deep waters offshore Benin, the Houmelan-1 well...

Seismic Foldout: Deepwater Niger Delta: Revealing the structural influence on reservoir channel deposition to highlight remaining prospectivity

Avril Burrell, Wole Oyetoran, PGS, Ahmad Abdullahi, NUPRC

GEO ExPro Magazine

... sequence. Finally, the Benin Formation completes the section and is dominated by continentally sourced sands. The Niger Delta Basin is renowned...

Patterns of Incidence of Oil Reserves in Niger Delta Basin

J. E. Ejedawe

AAPG Bulletin

... of the Abakaliki-Benue suture zone of the much larger southern Nigerian basin (Fig. 1A). On the west, it is separated from the Dahomey (or Benin) basin...