The western gulf of Mexico basin tectonics, sedimentary basins, and petroleum systems / Тектоника западной части Мексиканского залива, осадочные бассейны и нефтяные системы

The Gulf of Mexico Basin is one of the best-known and most highly explored petroleum basins in the world. The literature on the basin is enormous and continues to grow each year. The deep-water part of the basin is now one of the most prolific new provinces in the world, and it is the continued focus for oil and gas exploration. Here the industry leads the world in the application of modern drilling and production techniques. Despite all this focus on the Gulf of Mexico Basin and its successes, there is still a noticeable gap in our knowledge about a major part of the basin that lies primarily in Mexico. The literature about the geology and petroleum aspects of this part of the Gulf Basin has been sparse and slow in coming, despite some excellent work over the years by academic and petroleum workers in Mexico. This is a result partly of the proprietary nature of much of the work in company files. This attitude is now changing in Mexico, and we believe that this volume represents a milestone toward sharing some of this excellent new work with the world community. We are proud that AAPG can be part of this endeavor.
We have assembled in this memoir for the first time a set of papers that focuses entirely on the Mexican part of the Gulf of Mexico Basin. These papers provide an enormous amount of new data on all aspects of this part of the basin, ranging from structure to stratigraphy to petroleum geology, and they represent a major new contribution to the overall geology of the Gulf of Mexico Basin. Perhaps the most important contribution of this volume is that 13 of the papers are direct contributions from Mexican authors, including papers by members of PEMEX (the Mexican national oil company), the Instituto Mexicano del Petróleo (IMP), the Instituto de Geología from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and the Instituto Politécnico Nacional. Also of major significance as a volume from the AAPG is the common thread that runs through most of the papers, which is the understanding of petroleum systems in Mexico and the implications for exploration and production <...>