Neil Hodgson1, Steve De Vito, Karyna Rodriguez and Mike Saunders present the
characteristics of the Argentine Basin that is being opened up for exploration.

A remarkable property of the Argentine Basin, located in the Atlantic west of Argentina, is that within its 450,000 km2  of extent – not one exploration well has been drilled. Compared
to the world’s other continental passive margins, this makes it the most unexplored high potential basin on Earth. Partly this is owing to a lack of modern seismic data in this basin, with
exploration previously focused on rifts that lie on the continental shelf. Yet also it is unexplored because of the lack of industry access to the area in the last 10-15 years since deep water drilling technologies have become widely available.