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1 Tectonics of Eastern Mexico Gulf of Mexico and its Hydrocarbon Potential* Ricardo J. Padilla y Sánchez 1 Search and Discovery Article #10622 (2014)** Posted August 11, 2014 *Adapted from oral presentation at AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, Houston, Texas, April 6-9, 2014, and the Geoscience Technology Workshop Sixth Deepwater and Shelf Reservoir, Houston, Texas, January 27-28, 2015 **Datapages 2014 Serial rights given by author. For all other rights contact author directly. 1 División de Ingeniería en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México, Distrito Federal, Mexico (ricardojpadilla@gmail.com; rpadilla@unam.mx) Abstract Major oil and gas reservoirs occur in Mexico in seven main basins, from northwest to southeast: Sabinas, Burgos, Tampico- Misantla, Chicontepec, Veracruz, Salina del Istmo, and Macuspana y Comalcalco; over, or around carbonate build-ups, of buried basement horsts like the Golden Lane and Akal Horst, as well as in salt-related structures. These features are located along the Gulf Coastal Plain, onshore and offshore, between the Sierra Madre Oriental on the west, and the Perdido Fold Belt, the Mexican Ridges, and the Yucatan Platform, on the east. The age of the source rocks for these conventional reservoirs is Tithonian, but could be even Kimmeridgian or Oxfordian. The regional migration trend for the hydrocarbons, generated by these sources and accumulated in the conventional known reservoirs, came most probably from east to west, from the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico, upward to the final traps, in different times. A series of chronological paleogeographic maps are presented in order to try to understand the regional facies distribution and the orogenic events resulting from a combination of gravitydriven, passive margin, near-field stress-driven type 1 systems and a continuous transpressional state of stress due to the fastest movement of the northern portion of the North American Plate respect to Mexico, since the Mesozoic to the present. An additional evidence for the proposed routes of migration and today's activity of the petroleum system are the numerous oil-gas seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. A reliable estimate of the undiscovered recoverable conventional petroleum resources is presented.
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4 Tectonics of Eastern Mexico - Gulf of Mexico and its Hydrocarbon Potential Ricardo José Padilla y Sánchez División de Ingeniería en Ciencias de la Tierra, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México AAPG-ACE-HOUSTON, April 2014
5 Tectonics of Eastern Mexico - Gulf of Mexico and its Hydrocarbon Potential Contents: Major oil & gas reservoirs in Mexico - GOM Petroleum basins of Mexico Source rocks Petroleum systems Late Paleozoic Cenozoic tectonic evolution Undiscovered recoverable resources
6 Major oil & gas reservoirs in Mexico Burgos Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
7 Major oil & gas reservoirs in Mexico Ébano, Pánuco, Faja de Oro Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
8 Major oil & gas reservoirs in Mexico Veracruz Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
9 Major oil & gas reservoirs in Mexico Sureste Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
10 Major oil & gas reservoirs in Mexico Región Marina Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
11 Petroleum basins of Mexico Chihuahua Burgos Sabinas Oil Gas Tampico-Misantla Chicontepec Veracruz Salina del Istmo- Comalcalco Macuspana Pilar de Akal Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
12 Source rocks Regional stratigraphic and geochemical characteristics of the Burgos Basin (Tomada de González y Holguin, 1991). González y Holguín, 1992
13 Source rocks Regional stratigraphic and geochemical characteristics of the Tampico-Misantla Basin (Tomada de González y Holguin, 1991). González y Holguín, 1992
14 Source rocks Regional stratigraphic and geochemical characteristics of the Veracruz Basin (Tomada de González y Holguin, 1991). González y Holguín, 1992
15 Source rocks Simplified cross section and maturity of the Sureste Basin (Tomada de González y Holguin, 1991). González y Holguín, 1992
16 Petroleum systems Diagram of the events of the Tithonian-Kimmeridgian-Cretaceous-Paleogene-Neogene petroleum systems. PEMEX, 2013a
17 Petroleum system Diagram of the events of the Oxfordian petroleum system, representative of the terrestrial and marine parts of the Sureste petroleum province. PEMEX, 2013a
18 Petroleum system Table of the elements and events of the Lower-Middle Jurassic petroleum system of the Tampico- Misantla petroleum province. PEMEX, 2013b
19 Petroleum system Table of the elements and events of the petroleum system associated with Upper Jurassic source rocks. PEMEX, 2013b
20 Paleogeographic evolution of NA Ronald Blakey, 2013
21 Late Triassic paleogeography D D SEA LAND Red Beds o 500 Km
22 Callovian paleogeography D D SEA LAND o 500 Km
23 Oxfordian paleogeography D D SEA LAND o 500 Km
24 Kimmeridgian paleogeography D D SEA LAND 500 Km
25 Tithonian paleogeography SEA LAND o 500 Km
26 Early Cretaceous paleogeography SEA LAND o 500 Km
27 Barremian paleogeography SEA LAND o 500 Km
28 Albian paleogeography SEA LAND o 500 Km
29 Late Cretaceous paleogeography SEA LAND o 500 Km
30 Early Paleocene paleogeography D D SEA LAND J r' ) r ~.J.. ~ '-'I "' '>.- o 500 Km
31 Late Eocene paleogeography, ) D D SEA LAND 'I ( ) o 500 Km
32 Miocene paleogeography SEA LAND ( o 500 Km
33 Late Miocene paleogeography SEA LAND l (f/!~ I o 500 Km
34 Oligocene paleogeography SEA LAND 1If/; I/( o 500 Km
35 Plio-pleistocene paleogeography SEA LAND l tf/l~ I o 500 Km
36 Holocene paleogeography o o 500 Km
37 Today I \, 4\~~~~;~1~~1~J. c,r-t'"'nic Map 6f Mexico ' 013 ~~ i\\,-i';-"-l\.\lc---= \~- --I- I I Compiler: Fl.ICHdo J. Fadi la y ~nchel I Colab"atcrs \ DO r1 lnquez Tre lo, L. Lopez Az cmraga, AG.. Mota Nieto, J.,, F ~en :es lii enes, A.O.. Ac aiqu e N ~ r~ nio, F.. C" m,; n C8steh; n, ::.A". i I. S,E. Divis ion de Ingen\erja en C i~nd a s ce la n,m a, II I de Ingenieria Un,vor:;id"d N"c i ~ n,, 1 i\ u t6, om~ de M6,;oo I ) I I +-t_ -=r= \ \ \ --1 \, \ \ ----\ \ \ \ 750 I i I ,5?O ~"'''''~ '':'_I'"'... ooiol'"''''''''''''' Kilometers Padilla y Sánchez et.al., 2013, AAPG Datapages
38 Today
39 Opening of the Gulf of Mexico (A) 210 Ma-Norian, start of rifting (8) 163 Ma-Callovian, start of salt deposition I km North America North America extension -<--"'T"t: Yucatan block Yucatan block ~ ~ 1 /; / South America <, 1 South America Hudec et al., 2013
40 Opening of the Gulf of Mexico (C) 161 Ma-Caliovian, r- end of salt deposition Salt-restoration lines superimposed n (0) 155 Ma-Oxfordian, just before sea-floor spreading Salt-restoration lines ~.~~~~~ Hudec et al., 2013
41 Opening of the Gulf of Mexico (E) 149 Ma-Tithonian, sea-floor spreading I (F) Present ~----- f km postsalt stretchin~ ij" ~~~~d Salt-restoration lines Hudec et al., 2013
42 Opening of the Gulf of Mexico Limited stretching of thick upper plate NOlthern limit of detachment faulting Main GOM Thin or absent upper plate above detachment leads to high heat flow As Chiapas moves to SE Tamaulipas Arch is unroofed Middle Grounds Fault Bahamas Sonora A Mojave Megashear SE, opening Tampa Enlbayment pull-apart Successive positions of Chuacus (8) and Chiapas (1\') blocks 8th. Am. coast at 1 6oMa~ Successive positions of Yucatan - note how SE Yuc. always nestles in elbow between M8 Megashear and Maracaibo Transform Pindell and Kennan, 2001
43 Opening of the Gulf of Mexico Vazquez, 2005
44 Mayor tectonic features of Mexico + N lr t. 'U" 'U' /- -l +,,,. In- m,. 1IIi',.. nja Vol...:. ~ ~1,...;C... ~ Tran"" ic:.". (Pllo-Pl... toc... ol "'''' '... "' ",,'...,. -\.L.j +.,. oj.j ".!.' t t- nu' I"'" 10Ct " fill' Ill' Padilla y Sánchez, 2007
45 Cenozoic volcanism in Mexico Padilla y Sánchez (1986) Padilla y Sánchez (1986)
46 Crustal model of eastern Mexico ; : ; : ~ c v o f 4.0, 1 '0 - " " ~ " " J.,.I I \. 01 I l. U l MEXICO CONTINENTAL I RIFTED MANTLE TAMAULIPA$-OAXACA FAULT CRUST ----~.--~. " l,ul' COU111L 'LAlli,; 100 I...! CONT. l. U t." 1.lit 1.10 I ~ ~ -z. t' ~, y. r. t, _0. o CRUS T ABNORMAL OCEANI~ I b---- CRUST----, ,, ".,. 1 ~-~=:,:,,-=!~!!.=~= :::0= == = = = ~"~:~'~"~==1~ ~'!i:... '- 00-,, >., ~ TO ). 0 S 1.1,.. -, ' " '.f... '.0 ~?~ ---M-A"N~T~L~E7" ~ t.f - : / I. ' Numb~rs in Punla Jerel tolumn indicat e densities i., glee. othe rwise :ndicole PWQve ve locities in Km/uc - Abnormal rneofls on o'ceonic crusl covered by a It'I ;e k packo90 of sedimenls -- '-~~ n-.o~.,. Padilla y Sánchez (1986)
47 Tamaulipas-Oaxaca Fault Figur. 2. sat basi.. in the Gilt 01 MeR<o ''l!''''. our iott'1"ettd lini 01 "",mol ",earo<_ o in the basin. SIr",,,.. all,"ures lrom Mar'n (1980); Simm<>1' (l'l'l2); 11~. (19OS); L_ (I'1'lS); GoI<t\'''''''' and 'oiu>oo _~=~_=,,;50:.::q,~Km Lawton d al. (2001); Podi. Y s.ln<hez (2013). Ie< Hude< et a. (20n, 1I'is.,u.', '0<..iden<.1or lilc Boat'".""'" '.ul Hudec et al., 2013
48 Gravity Map of the GOM o 500 Km Hudec et al., 2013
49 Yucatan Block path ( ma) cm/year = 1,000 km/19 ma Padilla y Sánchez (1986)
50 Regional migration trends Geologic provinces of the Mexican part of the deep Gulf of Mexico. The section is an example of the structural styles of some of the provinces. A A The regional migration trend for the hydrocarbons generated by these sources came most probably from east to west, from the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico, upward to the final traps, in different times. Escalera, 2010
51 Regional migration trends A A A A The regional migration trend for the hydrocarbons generated by these sources came most probably from east to west, from the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico, upward to the final traps, in different times. Vazquez, 2005
52 Regional migration trends D D D D The regional migration trend for the hydrocarbons generated by these sources came most probably from east to west, from the deepest part of the Gulf of Mexico, upward to the final traps, in different times. Bally and Tari, 2004, AAPG Winter Education Conference
53 Reserves in Mexico Thousands of billions of barrels of oil equivalent Basin Prospective Reserves Cum. Resources Prod 1P 2P 3P Unco Conv. (90%) (50%) (1 0%) nv. Southeast Tampico Misantla Burgos Veracruz Sabinas Deep waters Yucatan plattform 0.5 Total Mexico's culllulative production, 1 P, 2P and 3P reserves, and conventional and unconventional resources. There are 1II0re than 200 billion barrels of oil equivalent associated to the 44.5 billion boe of 3P, as the h;storic cumulative p roduction is just 55 billion boe, (Source. PEME)(, 2013). Rangel, 2014
54 Ricardo J. Padilla y Sánchez rpadilla@unam.mx Thanks
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