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DGS Ineternational Committee Dinner Meeting - Mesozoic/Cenozoic Tectonics, Basin Fairways, and Play Opportunities of Peru
Sponsored by Dallas Geological Society
Wednesday 16-May-12 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
Brookhaven Country Club3333 Golfing Green DriveDallas TX 75234 USA Google Maps | Hotels Near | Yahoo! Maps | Weather Forecast Phone: (972) 243-6151 | Speaker George Devries Klein, PGPosition: President and Chief GeologistCompany: SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc. |
Event Description
MESOZOIC/CENOZOIC TECTONICS, BASIN FAIRWAYS, AND PLAY OPPORTUNITIES OF PERU1
By
George Devries Klein*, SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc, 17117 Westheimer Rd; PMB #11, Houston, TX, 77082 (gdkgeo@earthlink.net)
Fernando J. Zúñiga y Rivero, BPZ Resources, Inc., 580 West Lake Blvd, Suite 525, Houston, TX, 77079,[1](Present address: Zúñiga y Rivero Foundation, 24044 Cinco Village Center Blvd. Suite 100 Katy, Texas 77494)
Hugh Hay-Roe, 3126 Royal Crescent, Kingwood, TX, 77379, and
Estuardo Alvarez-Calderon, BPZ Resources, Inc., 580 West Lake Blvd, Suite 525, Houston, TX, 77079
ABSTRACT
The Mesozoic/Cenozoic tectonics of Peru was controlled by the westward convergence of the continental South American plate and the northeastern oblique convergence of the oceanic Nazca/Farallon plate. This tectonic collision developed a composite transform-convergent margin characterized by normal and strike-slip faults that formed extensional/pull apart basins along the western margin of Peru. These extensional/pull-apart basins, such as Talara and Tumbes, are petroliferous and occur both offshore and along Peru’s coast. Trench slope basins occur along the upper wall of the eastern side of the Peru-Chile Trench.
East of this coastal belt of basins are the Andes Mountains,which experienced episodic Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic uplift in response to changing rates of plate convergence. It consists of Paleozoic low-grade metamorphic and igneous rocks and sediments. Onshore, within the northern and central Peruvian Andes, a large volcanic gap exists in response to flat slab subduction during the past 10-7 my; a classic Late Neogene and Quaternary volcanic arc is absent in this northern region, as are paired metamorphic belts. Successive orogenic phases developed both fold-and-thrust belts and a series of intermontane and foreland basins.
Three major Cenozoic petroliferous foreland basins occur east of the Andes of Peru. These basins, Maranon, Ucayali and Madre de Dios, comprise part of a North-South belt of productive foreland basins occurring from northern Venezuela to Argentina. The three foreland basins of Peru show regional changes in the age of petroleum systems, with Cretaceous petroleum systems occurring towards the North (Northern Maranon basin) and Devonian-Permian petroleum systems present in the south (Madre de Dios basin).
These 21 sedimentary basins of Peru are organized into four basin fairways representing different tectonic architecture and evolution. From west to east, they are the trench-slope basin fairway, the extensional/pull-apart basin fairway, the intermontane basin fairway, and the foreland basin fairway. These fairways parallel the regional tectonic provinces of Peru and are characterized by their own petroleum systems.
The basin styles of Peru define four regional plays and three opportunities for future exploration and production. These include:
- The extensional/wrench system play (Talara, Tumbes and other basins in the extensional/pull-apart fairway),
- An incised valley/shelf edge delta/canyon/fan play (outer continental shelf of Peru),
- An inboard foreland basin play (Camisea, Candamo analogs) associated with a tectonically-driven water drive.
- An outer foreland basin play associated with a gravity-driven water drive with hydrocarbons trapped by rollover anticlines and faults,
- Attic and by-passed opportunities (Talara basin),
- Re-evaluation of past failures, and
- Re-evaluation of leads proposed by Perupetro, PARSEP and Gaffney, Cline & Associates.
The extensional/pull-apart basins and the foreland basins show the greatest potential for future exploration. Focused exploration on these plays and opportunities should lead to new major oil and gas discoveries in Peru.
[1] Published with permission of the Board of Directors of BPZ Resources, Inc. The authors wish to express their appreciation to Manolo Zúñiga-Pflücker, President and CEO, BPZ Resources, Inc for facilitating this project. Dr. Victor Benavides-Cáceres is thanked for his helpful and cogent review of an earlier version of this manuscript. Kelly Zuniaga-Lopez is thanked for providing outstanding geotechnical support and drafting. Drafting was also completed by Enrique Bravo. Argelia Rozas and Angelica Rozas are thanked for their excellent clerical support.
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DGS Ineternational Committee Dinner Meeting - Mesozoic/Cenozoic Tectonics, Basin Fairways, and Play Opportunities of Peru
Sponsored by Dallas Geological Society
Wednesday 16-May-12 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
Speaker George Devries Klein, PG
Position: President and Chief GeologistCompany: SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc.
Biography
GEORGEDEVRIES KLEIN
5554 South Peek Road, Suite 55, Katy, TX, 77450-7130
TEL: 281-344-0875; MOBIL: 832-244-2394
e-mail: gdkgeo@earthlink.net
George Devries Klein, who is president and chief geologist of SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc., has expertise in Play Analysis, Clastic Facies and Reservoirs (Deepwater, Deltas, Fluvial), Sequence and Seismic Stratigraphy, Carbonates, Seismic Sedimentology, Basin Analysis, and Regional Geology. Basins with which he has expertise include the Gulf Coast, Gulf of Mexico, East Texas, Maverick, Permian, Midland, Illinois, San Joaquin, Appalachian, Arkoma, Powder River, Maracaibo, Macuspana, Eastern Venezuela, Marib, Orange River, Senegal, Lower Congo, Al Mado, Nogal, Darror, Eastern Carpathian, Veracruz basins, and 21 basins in Peru. He published 300 refereed articles, books and abstracts on these topics, including the book "Sandstone Depositional Models for Exploration for Fossil Fuels" and a widely-used Wall Chart on "Vertical Sequences and Log Shapes of Major Sandstone Reservoir Systems".
He received eleven honors and awards including the Outstanding Paper Award in the Journal of Sedimentary Petrology (SEPM; 1972) and the Laurence L. Sloss Award of the Geological Society of America. He is a past SIPES Distinguished Lecturer.
Klein earned degrees in geology from Kansas (MA) and Yale (PhD.). He worked as a Research Geologist for Sinclair Research and then taught at the Universities of Pittsburgh, and of Pennsylvania. He joined the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in 1970 where he served until 1993. After serving as Executive Director of the New Jersey Marine Sciences Consortium, and Director, New Jersey Sea Grant College Program, he opened a full time geological consulting practice (SED-STRAT Geoscience Consultants, Inc.) in the petroleum field in May 1996. He is a licensed Texas Registered Geologist (#440), and a member of AAPG (DPA Board CPG #5662), HGS, SIPES (CPES #2705), GCSSEPM, and GSA.
8.11.2011
DGS Ineternational Committee Dinner Meeting - Mesozoic/Cenozoic Tectonics, Basin Fairways, and Play Opportunities of Peru
Sponsored by Dallas Geological Society
Wednesday 16-May-12 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
Brookhaven Country Club
3333 Golfing Green DriveDallas TX 75234 USA
Google Maps | Hotels Near | Yahoo! Maps | Weather Forecast
Phone: (972) 243-6151
DGS Ineternational Committee Dinner Meeting - Mesozoic/Cenozoic Tectonics, Basin Fairways, and Play Opportunities of Peru
Sponsored by Dallas Geological Society
Wednesday 16-May-12 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM CDT
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