Maps of Cuba, Jamaica and Hispaniola. Mexico

Abstract

This poster presents an updated overview of structural styles and play types in the offshore sector of NW Cuba. Exploration and production has been focused in the onshore North Cuban fold belt which contains many heavy oil discoveries, but with only 10 oil fields still in production. The offshore area is very lightly explored. It consists of a Jurassic age passive continental margin with rift basins containing good source rocks of late Jurassic age and Oxfordian age San Cayetano sandstones. Early Cretaceous carbonate banks were developed on the footwall highs.

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