Structuration and Subsidence of the French Guyana Hyper-oblique Margin

The discoveries of Tupi in 2007 and of Jubilee Fields in 2006 have triggered a black gold rush on the world’s passive margins. Evolving extensional models in the distal area of margins in the Academy together with an increasing number of high quality and deeper seismic data (3D datasets, long offset acquisition, SPAN 2D, Broadseis, etc.) lead to develop new ideas and concepts for the deformation and subsidence history of Passive Margin in general and sheared margin (hyper-oblique or transform margins) in particular.