Paper Summary
Recent oil and gas discoveries in the Potiguar Basin of the Equatorial Margin of Brazil have highlighted the region’s potential to become a prolific hydrocarbon province. Wildcat discoveries on the conjugate margins and the notable wells of the Guyana/Suriname Basin indicate an
elevated level of regional prospectivity for the Ceará and Potiguar Basins. In contrast to recent years, exploration in the basins has primarily targeted syn-rift reservoirs in the shallow water setting. The 2024 Anhangá ultra-deep-water discovery was the first reported discovery to
successfully find oil in early post-rift turbidites. In this post-rift analysis, we identify extensive deepwater paleo-depositional fairways that could be prospective targets.