By T. J. Arthur, Douglas Scott Macgregor, N. R. Cameron

As frontier exploration in Africa strikes into ever-deeper water and new basins, there's an expanding have to mitigate the excessive expenditures by way of decreasing probability. a technique of doing this is often by way of drawing on wisdom from different parts.

The booklet comprises neighborhood papers starting from syntheses on a continental scale to info of the salt tectonics of the West African margin. It additionally addresses the necessity to proceed utilizing applied sciences to their limits by way of together with papers on subject matters as various as gravity interpretation and fluid inclusion stories.

The e-book presents crucial interpreting for these requiring additional perception into the origins of Africa's diversified petroleum platforms, and may be key to geologists and geophysicists desirous about the exploration for and exploitation of oil and gasoline all through Africa. Of specific be aware in is the supplementary CD containing maps of Africa's petroleum basins categorised by means of age of aim reservoir system.

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