The original printed publication was an outgrowth of the joint AAPG/ABGP Hedberg Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Giant oil and gas fields have been discovered through recent exploration in the deep and ultra-deep water regions of Angola, Brazil, and Nigeria. This volume includes
- Descriptions of the petroleum geology of more than 12 basins along the two margins
- Discussion of various components of the petroleum systems within these basins
- Discussion on the use of the petroleum systems concept in the South Atlantic marginal basins to classify and characterize the diversity of the systems
- Methodologies used in the assessment of petroleum system components
- Overviews of the different components of the region’s petroleum systems
Petroleum explorationists and researchers working in the South Atlantic will welcome this addition to their libraries.
The printed version of Memoir 73 was the Winner of the 2000 Dott Award for best AAPG Special Publication.