Talara Basin Province of Northwestern Peru: Cretaceous-Tertiary Total Petroleum System

摘要

This report was prepared as part of the World Energy Project of the U.S. Geological Survey. For this project, the world was divided into 8 regions and 937 geologic provinces (Klett and others, 1997). Of these, portions of 128 geologic provinces were assessed for undiscovered petroleum resources. The petroleum geology of these provinces is described in a series of reports like the one presented here. The primary documentation for these assessments is located in U.S. Geological Survey World Energy Assessment Team (2000). The petroleum geology of these priority and boutique provinces is described in the contained series of reports. Province names, codes, and boundaries, oil and gas fields, and a geologic map of South America are shown in Schenk and others (1999). The purpose of the World Energy Project is to assess the quantities of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids that have the potential to be added to reserves within the next 30 years.