SILVA , Cleverson Guizan

Drilling is a technology developed for the exploration of natural resources (water, hydrocarbons, minerals), which can also be used to address scientific questions regarding the Earth's past, present and future. Scientific drilling initiatives are supported by the International Continental Drilling Program (ICDP) and the International Ocean...

The Amazon Fan provides a natural laboratory to study the generation of overpressure, due to rapid late Cenozoic burial that has resulted in gravitational collapse above shale detachments. Here we examine collapse systems for the first time using the techniques of petroleum systems analysis. We propose an integrated methodology based on...