Province, Total Petroleum System and Assessment Unit Boundaries from the 2009-2011 World Petroleum Resources Project

• Main Author: U.S. Geological Survey, World Conventional Resource Assessment Team
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: USGS Science Data Catalog 2013
• Subjects: Geologic Oil and Gas Assessment; USGS; U.S. Geological Survey; World Petroleum Resource Assessment; Energy Program; Oil and Gas; Oil and Gas Assessment; Assessment; Geology; Petroleum; Geological Provinces; Conventional Resources; Assessment Unit; wep; World; Afghan-Tajik Basin; Alberta Basin; Amazonas Basin; Amu-Darya Basin; Anah Graben; Anglo-Dutch Basin; Arafura Basin-Irian Jaya; Assam; Azov-Kuban Basin; Bahama Platform; Banda Arc; Baram Delta/Brunei-Sabah Basin; Barinas-Apure Basin; Barito Basin; Baykit High; Bintuni-Sulawati; Bohaiwan Basin; Bombay; Bonaparte Basin; Browse Basin; Burgos Basin; Campeche-Sigsbee Salt Basin; Campos Basin; Cauvery; Central Sumatra Basin; Chad; Cuu Long Basin; Dnieper-Donets Basin; East Java Basin; East Venezuela Basin; Espirito Santo Basin; Essaouira Basin; Euphrates/Mardin; Fahud Salt Basin; Falklands Plateau; Farah; Foz do Amazonas Basin; Ghaba Salt Basin; Gippsland Basin; Grand Erg/Ahnet Basin; Greater Antilles Deformed Belt; Greater Ghawar Uplift; Greater Sarawak Basin; Guajira Basin; Gulf of Guinea; Guyana-Suriname Basin; Haleb; Helmund-Baluchistan; Illizi Basin; Indo-Burman; Interior Homocline-Central Arch; Irrawaddy; Junggar Basin; Katawaz; Khorat Plateau; Krishna-Godavari; Kura Basin; Kutei Basin; Labrador-Newfoundland Shelf; Lesser Antilles Deformed Belt; Levant Basin; Llanos Basin; Lower Magdalena Valley Basin; Macuspana Basin; Magallanes Basin; Malay Basin; Malvinas Basin; Maracaibo Basin; Ma'Rib-Al Jawf/Masila Basin; Mesopotamian Foredeep Basin; Middle Caspian Basin; Middle Magdalena Valley Basin; Morondava; Mozambique Coastal; Nam Con Son Basin; Nepa-Botuoba High; Neuquen Basin; New Guinea Foreland Basin-Fold Belt; Niger Delta; Nile Delta Basin; North Caspian Basin; North Sakhalin Basin; North Sea Graben; North Sumatra Basin; North Ustyurt Basin; Northwest Java Basin; Northwest Shelf; Norwegian Margin; Orange River Basin; Ordos Basin; Palawan Shelf; Palmyra Zone; Papuan Basin-Shelf Platform; Parana Basin; Parnaiba Basin; Pearl River Mouth Basin; Pelagian Basin; Pelotas Basin; Penyu-West Natuna Basin; Phu Khanh; Po Basin; Pripyat Basin; Provence Basin; Putumayo-Oriente-Maranon Basin; Qatar Arch; Red Sea Basin; Rub al Khali Basin; Rutbah Uplift; Salado-Punta del Este Basin; Saline-Comalcalco Basin; San Jorge Basin; Santa Cruz-Tarija Basin; Santos Basin; Senegal; Sergipe-Alagoas Basin; Seychelles; Sichuan Basin; Sierra Madre de Chiapas-Peten Foldbelt; Sirte Basin; Solimoes Basin; Song Hong Basin; Songliao Basin; South African Coastal; South Caspian Basin; South China Sea Platform; South Oman Salt Basin; South Sumatra Basin; Sud; Sulu Sea; Tampico-Misantla Basin; Tanzania Coastal; Tarakan Basin; Taranaki Basin; Tarim Basin; Thai Basin; Thailand Cenozoic Basins; Tobago Trough; Trias/Ghadames Basin; Tuxla Uplift; Upper Magdalena Valley Basin; Veracruz Basin; Villahermosa Uplift; Volga-Ural Region; West African Coastal; West Siberian Basin; West-Central Coastal; Widyan Basin-Interior Platform; Yucatan Platform; Zagros Fold Belt; Zagros Thrust Zone; Newfoundland; Magallanes; Bonaparte; Jaya; Sakhalin
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The boundaries illustrated by these Assessment Units are the result of geologic studies conducted by the World Petroleum Resources Project, 2009-2011 (Project). The boundaries were used to assess the oil and gas resources within the unit. An assessment unit, as defined by the Project, is a mapped volume of rock within the Total Petroleum System (TPS), sufficiently homogeneous in terms of geology, exploration strategy and risk characteristics to constitute a single population of discovered and undiscovered fields with respect to criteria used for resource assessment. Relatedly, the TPS is the essential elements and processes, as well as all genetically related hydrocarbons that occur in petroleum shows, seeps and accumulations (discovered and undiscovered), whose source is a pod or closely related pods of active source rock.