Geological analysis and comparison of the Perdido, Subsalt and Mexican Ridges Fold Belts. An overview of the Mexican petroleum geology in the Gulf of Mexico”
Abstract
Although no commercial hydrocarbon volumes have been found in the offshore, recent exploration has proven three main source rock intervals in the Oxfordian, Tithonian and Aptian-Turonian. Stratigraphic traps are expected in the offshore foreland basin and these have still to be tested. The Jurassic rotated fault blocks are sufficiently buried in the outer part of the foreland basin to generate oil. However, north of the foreland basin the depth of burial is not sufficient to bury the Jurassic source rocks into the oil window and this area is less prospective. The poster will illustrate these untested plays with seismic data.
AAPG Datapages/Search and Discovery Article #90330©2018 AAPG Hedberg: Geology of Middle America – the Gulf of Mexico, Yucatan, Caribbean, Grenada and Tobago Basins and Their Margins “Integration of the geology of the area from the southern onshore of North America to the northern onshore of South America”, Siguenza, Guadalajara, Spain, July 2-5, 2018