CGG launch East African basin map

摘要

CGG GeoConsulting's NPA Satellite Mapping group has launched the multiclient EARS BasinMap for exploration derisking across East Africa, from regional-to-prospect or play scale. The EARS BasinMap provides an entirely new 1:200,000 scale geological map and database of the East African Rift System and integrates structural history, drainage analysis and sediment provenance. Compiled by expert interpretation of satellite optical imagery and topographic data (the latest Landsat 8 OLI and SRTM 1 DEM data), the database extends across approximately 2.5 million km~2 of East Africa taking in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi and parts of Ethiopia, Mozambique, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. New ventures and exploration teams can use the EARS BasinMap for regional screening to gauge and understand the structural dynamics of ongoing rifting and predict the location of favourable sediment sequences with high reservoir potential.