Western Gulf of Mexico Basin: Tectonics, Sedimentary Basins, and Petroleum Systems (AAPG Memoir) - Hardcover

Claudio Bartolini

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 089181356X ISBN 13: 9780891813569

Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 2002

Synopsis

The Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is the most prolific oil- and gas-producing basin in the Americas. As explorers push deeper and deeper into the basin, where will they find the next big fields?

This is the first AAPG memoir on the petroleum geology of Mexico, and covers a wide range of topics related to petroleum geochemistry and hydrocarbon origin, migration, and entrapment. The 21 chapters of AAPG Memoir 75 cover the basin from a regional perspective through geologic time and discuss structural geology, sedimentary basins, stratigraphy, and case studies of fields in Mexico. The book provides:

*Integration of onshore-offshore data to help readers understand Mexican petroleum provinces

*New concepts about the paleogeographic evolution of the GOM

*A sequence-stratigraphic framework of the northwestern GOM

*Discussions of gas resources, exploitation, and reservoir performance

This book will be of interest to explorers and managers who want a regional perspective and the detailed information to make better-informed exploration decisions.

American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG)

Founded in 1917, AAPG is the world's largest professional geological society.

AAPG is a pillar of the world-wide scientific community. Our books foster timely scientific research, advance the science of geology and promote the most efficient methods of energy exploration & processing technology and practices available today.

Some of the areas we publish in include:
Well Log Analysis
Geological Modeling
Carbonate Petrology
Seismic Imaging
Reservoir Characterization
Regional Petroleum Analysis
Tectonics and Sedimentation
Stratigraphy

Edition details

• Publisher: American Association of Petroleum Geologists
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 089181356X
• ISBN 13: 9780891813569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Claudio Bartolini, Richard T. Buffler, Abelardo Cantu-Chapa