Baleine Discovery: Cote D’Ivoire’s Exploration “Black Swan”

The recent world-class Baleine discovery within the Deep Tano Basin has attracted renewed exploration interest for the offshore Côte d’Ivoire. Its structural complexity and depositional stratigraphy, resulting from multiphase rifting of this basin, require high-quality seismic data to develop detailed geological models. To achieve this, CGG recently conducted a seismic stratigraphic analysis using the CDI-14 broadband multi-client 3D seismic dataset over the Grand Bassam subbasin. The goal was to develop new insights into Late Cretaceous depositional mechanisms and key facies distribution to shed light on the potential prospectivity of this basin.