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Columbus1494on Dec 21, 2010 3:25pm
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RE: 1711 geology
RE: 1711 geologyActually there is some salt in the namibe basin north of Walvis ridge.
On Namcors website they say that salt was encountered in places in Kunene-1.They dont specify how much.
There is a Namcor presentation with crossections of geologic zones where they say that the saltlayer in
the namibe basin is 20-40 m thick in the aptian zone.It is much less than in offshore Brazil but maybe could be
enough to isolate any oil.
There also is a presentation where they say there are 4 zones with source rock in the namibe basin.
1,In the albian zone,thats where the upper reservoir in Kunene-1 was located.
2,In the aptian zone-volcanoclastics,the lower zone with hydrocarbons.
3,In the synrift zone,they stopped drilling about 200m into the barremian-synrift zone.they initially planned to drill
500 ms deeper down to 5500 to the basement.
It is interesting that they say there is source rock in the precambrian zone in the basement but as far as I know
no one has drilled that deep in the region before.