AAPG MEMOIR 90 - Petroleum Systems in the Southern Gulf of Mexico

INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Claudio Bartolini
REGIONAL NEOGENE SALT TECTONICS IN THE OFFSHORE SALINA DEL ISTMO BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO . . . 1
Pedro T. Gómez-Cabrera and Martin P. A. Jackson
INTEGRATED GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION AND IMPACT ON THE DEFINITION OF NEOGENE PLAYS IN THE ISTHMUS
SALINE BASIN, MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Alejandro A. Sosa Patrón, Juan de G. Cárdenas López, Celia Cárdenas Lara, Oscar Pinto Gómez,
Ma. Elena Guzzy Arredondo, Ma. Eugenia Monroy Audelo, and Reynaldo Castellanos Calvo
THE YEGUA FORMATION: GAS PLAY IN THE BURGOS BASIN, MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Samuel Eguiluz-de Antuñano
UPPER JURASSIC STRATIGRAPHY (OXFORDIAN AND KIMMERIDGIAN) IN PETROLEUM WELLS OF CAMPECHE SHELF,
GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Abelardo Cantú-Chapa
CONTRACTIONAL GROWTH FAULTING IN THE MEXICAN RIDGES, GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Luis Enrique Salomón-Mora, Mario Aranda-García, and Juan Rogelio Román-Ramos
TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PETROLEUM SYSTEMS APPROACHING
THE DEEP-WATER GULF OF MEXICO (KAYAB AREA, CAMPECHE SOUND, MEXICO): DEFINITION OF THERMALLY
MATURE AND PROSPECTIVE AREAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Salvador Ortuño Arzate, Esteban Soriano M., Cuauhtémoc Romero M., Joel Rosales R.,
Edgar Bahena R., Sergio Hernández G., and Alejandro Cárdenas
THE PALYNOSTRATIGRAPHY OF RED-BED AND SALT UNITS OF THE MEXICAN PETROLEUM SUB-BASINS OF THE
GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Jaime Rueda-Gaxiola
A NEW MULTIDISCIPLINARY FOCUS IN THE STUDY OF THE TERTIARY PLAYS IN THE SURESTE BASIN, MEXICO . . . . . 155
Victor M. Chavez Valois, Ma. de Lourdes Clara Valdés, Juan I. Juárez Placencia, Iván Alor Ortiz,
Marta Mata Jurado, Ricardo Villagrán Yánez, Mercedes Guerrero Tristán, and Santosh Ghosh
AMMONITES OF THE CRETACEOUS TARAISES AND LOWER TAMAULIPAS FORMATIONS IN EASTERN MEXICO . . . . . . . 191
Abelardo Cantú-Chapa
INTEGRATED SEISMIC AND PETROGRAPHIC ANALYSES OF THE SANDSTONE RESERVOIRS OF THE TERTIARY
VERACRUZ BASIN, MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Martín Martínez-Medrano, Ricardo Vega-Escobar, Fernando Flores-Cruz, Daniela Ángeles-Marín,
and Cesar López-Martínez
NEOGENE STRATIGRAPHY AND SALT TECTONICS OF THE SANTA ANA AREA, OFFSHORE SALINA DEL ISTMO BASIN,
SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Pedro T. Gómez-Cabrera and Martin P. A. Jackson
STRATIGRAPHY AND SEDIMENTOLOGY OF MIDDLE EOCENE KUMAZA CALCARENITES ‘‘MEMBER’’ IN THE KU,
MALOOB, AND ZAAP OIL FIELDS, OFFSHORE CAMPECHE, MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Jaime J. Ríos-López and Abelardo Cantú-Chapa
VALIDATION OF THE STRATIGRAPHIC METHOD TO BUILD TITHONIAN (JURASSIC) SUBSURFACE STRUCTURAL MAPS,
CAMPECHE SHELF, SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Abelardo Cantú-Chapa
BASIN MODELING OF THE UPPER JURASSIC PETROLEUM SYSTEMS (TITHONIAN AND OXFORDIAN) IN THE
AKALAN-CHILAM AREA OF THE CAMPECHE SOUND IN THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Salvador Ortuño Arzate, Cuauhtémoc Romero Moguel, Marcelino Moreno López, and Marco Flores Flores
THE CRETACEOUS–PALEOGENE BOUNDARY CHICXULUB IMPACT: ITS EFFECT ON CARBONATE SEDIMENTATION
ON THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE YUCATAN PLATFORM AND NEARBY AREAS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
J. M. Grajales-Nishimura, G. Murillo-Muñetón, C. Rosales-Domínguez, J. C. Bermúdez-Santana,
L. G. Velasquillo-Martínez, J. García-Hernández, J. A. Arz, and I. Arenillas
GEOCHEMICAL INTEGRATION AND INTERPRETATION OF SOURCE ROCKS, OILS, AND NATURAL GASES
IN SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Ma. de Lourdes Clara Valdés, Laura Villanueva Rodríguez, and Ernesto Caballero García
HIGH-RESOLUTION BIOSTRATIGRAPHY IN MIOCENE–PLEISTOCENE SEDIMENTS FROM TWO WELLS IN THE
WESTERN GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
María Antonieta Sánchez Rios, Mónica L. Ayala Nieto, Julio C. González Lara, Aarón del Valle Reyes,
Janett Sánchez-Durán, Patricia Padilla Avila, Daniel García Urbano, Cristina Pérez Castillo,
Bruno A. Reyna Téllez, Antonio Reyes Vázquez, Paula A. Fuentes Franco, Juan Rico Pérez,
Lidia Aguirre Meza, and Guillermo Quintanilla Rodríguez
PROVENANCE FOR THE MIDDLE AND UPPER MIOCENE SANDSTONES OF THE VERACRUZ BASIN, MEXICO . . . . . . . . 397
Hilda Clarisa Gutiérrez Paredes, Martin Martinez Medrano, and Horacio Luis Sessarego
CONTINENTAL-OCEANIC BOUNDARY DEEP STRUCTURE IN A SHEAR MARGIN:WESTERN MAIN TRANSFORM,
OFFSHORE VERACRUZ, SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
Juan R. Román Ramos, Miguel A. Cruz Mercado, Luis E. Salomón Mora, Carlos Rosas Lara,
Fernando Sanchez Ferrer, Ed Biegert, and Erik Bartsch
OXFORDIAN–BERRIASIAN STRATIGRAPHY OF THE NORTH AMERICAN PALEOMARGIN IN WESTERN CUBA:
CONSTRAINTS FOR THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE PROTO-CARIBBEAN AND THE
EARLY GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Jorge L. Cobiella-Reguera and Federico Olóriz
THE DEEPER EXPLORATION OF THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO, LE ACACH-CHUKTAH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
Madain Moreno, Carlos Gonzalez, Alicia Cruz, Javier Meneses, Miguel Araujo, Tito Hernández,
and Felipe Audemard
CHOCH MULIX A PROLIFIC AREA ON THE WESTERN MARGIN OF THE AKAL HORST,
SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459
Nicolas Gonzalez, Francisco Angeles, Javier Reyes, Javier Meneses, Carlos Puerto, Detlef Balasejus,
Andreas Suter, Yves Helfenbein, and Felipe Audemard
PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE SALINA DEL ISTMO BASIN AND ITS OFFSHORE EXTENSION INTO THE
GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 465
A. Soto-Cuervo, V. Ortega-González, and G. Mora-Oropeza
GENETIC FACIES ANALYSIS USING SEISMIC GEOMORPHOLOGY AND SEISMIC ATTRIBUTES IN THE
CONTINENTAL SHELF OF EASTERN MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 471
Khaled Fouad, L. Frank Brown Jr.,William A. Ambrose, Dallas Dunlap, Mario Aranda-Garcia,
and Ulises Hernández-Romano
NEOGENE TECTONIC, STRATIGRAPHIC, AND PLAY FRAMEWORK OF THE SOUTHERN LAGUNA
MADRE–TUXPAN CONTINENTAL SHELF, GULF OF MEXICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 477
William A. Ambrose, Khaled Fouad, Shinichi Sakurai, David C. Jennette, L. F. Brown Jr., Edgar H. Guevara,
Dallas B. Dunlap, Tim F.Wawrzyniec, Suhas C. Talukdar, Mario Aranda Garcia, Ulises Hernández Romano,