Deep Water Untested Oil-play in the Magdalena Fan, Caribbean Colombian Basin
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Published:January 01, 2015
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Jaime A. Martinez, Jaime Castillo, Andrea Ortiz-Karpf, Lina Rendon, Juan Carlos Mosquera, Victor Vega, 2015. "Deep Water Untested Oil-play in the Magdalena Fan, Caribbean Colombian Basin", Petroleum Geology and Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin, Claudio Bartolini, Paul Mann
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Abstract
The Magdalena Fan is part of the Caribbean Basin of Colombia, an exploration frontier currently labelled as a gas-prone province. It is also one of the places with considerable chances of still finding billion barrel (in situ) hydrocarbon accumulations in Colombia. This chapter presents the elements that could assemble together to define an untested oil-play in the Magdalena Fan, which is described as Miocene turbidite lobes in frontal deformation anticlines, oil sourced from upper Cretaceous–Paleocene marine restricted shales.
The play combines the following components:
Upper Cretaceous–lower Paleocene marine oil-prone source rocks (interpreted to be equivalent to the...
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Petroleum Geology and Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin

AAPG Memoir 108 is the first international book published on the petroleum geology and hydrocarbon potential of Colombia’s Caribbean Margin. Tis volume consists of 27 multidisciplinary papers that include a wide range of geological and geophysical topics, such as geochemistry and petroleum systems, earthquake seismology and tomography, seismic stratigraphy and sedimentology, oil and gas exploration plays, carbonate and siliciclastic petrology, basement studies, regional tectonics and structural geology, fold belt structural analyses, potential methods, and studies of deep-sea sedimentation on the Magdalena fan. This highly valuable and innovative piece of information is critical for geoscientists in the petroleum industry, research institutions, and academia. Do not miss the opportunity to learn about the extremely complex but fascinating geology of Colombia's Caribbean Margin and its important hydrocarbon potential.