New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World

Mexico: State of the Exploration for Oil and Gas
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Published:December 01, 2012
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Alfredo E. Guzmàn, 2012. "Mexico: State of the Exploration for Oil and Gas", New Understanding of the Petroleum Systems of Continental Margins of the World, Norman C. Rosen, Paul Weimer, Sylvia Maria Coutes dos Anjos, Sverre Henrickson, Edmundo Marques, Mike Mayall, Richard Fillon, Tony D’Agostino, Art Saller, Kurt Campion, Tim Huang, Rick Sarg, Fred Schroeder
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Abstract
Of all the countries in the world considered to be oil rich, Mexico is the only one that consistently has been losing production and reserves in the last ten years. Even though Mexico has five major producing provinces: two for oil (the Southeast and the Tampico–Misantla basins) and three for gas (the Sabinas, Burgos and Veracruz basins), and has seven more with potential, (California, Gulf of Cortès, Chihuahua, Sierra Madre Oriental, Sierra de Chiapas, Progreso shelf, and the deep Gulf of Mèxico), its output and reserves have declined consistently.
Many reasons can be attributed for these results, and as...
- Atlantic Ocean
- basins
- Burgos Basin
- chemically precipitated rocks
- Chihuahua Mexico
- East Pacific
- economics
- evaporites
- fold and thrust belts
- Gulf of California
- Gulf of Mexico
- heavy oil
- Macuspana Basin
- Mexico
- natural gas
- North Atlantic
- North Pacific
- Northeast Pacific
- oil and gas fields
- Pacific Ocean
- petroleum
- petroleum exploration
- production
- reserves
- Sabinas Basin
- salt
- sedimentary rocks
- Sierra Madre Oriental
- Veracruz Basin
- Yucatan Shelf
- Sierra de Chiapas
- Tampico-Misantla Basin