Paper Summary
The Campeche Salt Basin represents a proven hydrocarbon province with excellent late Jurassic
Tithonian source rocks distributed across wide areas, as well as several Mesozoic play types that have been exploited by PEMEX during the previous six decades of exploration. In the shallow waters, Miocene and Pliocene siliciclastic reservoirs have been targeted with considerable success as well, but most discoveries have yielded somewhat smaller resources (Haire, 2016). Recent license rounds offshore Mexico (Rounds 1.4 and 2.1) focused on the Campeche basin, where many 3D programs were acquired for Pemex from 2003-2010.
Mexico’s National Hydrocarbons Commission (CNH) and Secretary of Energy (SENER) made these legacy data available to help inform evaluation and bidding. Reprocessing existing data with a consistent flow and an optimal set of algorithms has proven to be an extremely cost-effective method for E&P companies to analyze bid round acreage and detailed play and prospect evaluations. Having one contiguous high quality PreStack Depth volume across Campeche Basin will improve the likelihood of having a better understanding of tectonics, stratigraphy as well as depositional system.