Oil and gas resource atlas series: Offshore Northern Gulf of Mexico. Annual report, November 1, 1993-October 31, 1994
The goal of the Oil and Gas Resource Atlas Series: Offshore Northern Gulf of Mexico is to develop an atlas of hydrocarbon plays that integrates data for oil and gas reservoirs with large-scale patterns of basin fill and age. During the second year of the 4-year program, tasks centered on program management and analysis of reservoir data. Approximately 140 plays have been identified in the Federal OCS and Texas State waters. Plays in Texas State waters are gas prone and structurally trapped in rollover anticlines. In the Federal OCS, highly productive structural styles include growth-faulted rollover anticlines and salt domes. Lower Miocene plays are characterized by progradiational and submarine-fan reservoirs of Lenticulina and Siphonina davisi chronozones. Middle Miocene plays are characterized by progradational and retrogradational depositional styles. Upper Miocene plays are dominated by progadational depositional style, and Plio-Pleistocene plays include abundant progradational and submarine-fan reservoirs.
- Research Organization:
- Texas Univ., Austin, TX (United States). Bureau of Economic Geology
- OSTI ID:
- 39542
- Report Number(s):
- PB-95-182135/XAB; CNN: Contract GRI-5092-212-2324; TRN: 51041930
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: See also PB--94-151958; PBD: Nov 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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