Talara Basin (Spanish: Cuenca de Talara) is a depression filled with sedimentary rock, that is a sedimentary basin, in northwestern Peru.[1] On wider scale Talara Basin is located within rocks of an older and larger sedimentary basin that developed in the Mesozoic and Paleozoic.[1] Talara Basin contains various minor oil and gas fields.[1] The oil and gas reservoirs of the formation are trapped structural and stratigraphical features.[1] The source rock of the oil and gas is thought to be marine shales of Cenozoic age but some may come from similar shales but of Cretaceous age.[1] Oil has been extracted from its onshore field since the mid-1800s.[2] The basin covers an area of no less than 15,000 km2.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Higley, Debra (2004-08-01). The Talara Basin Province of Northwestern Peru: Cretaceous-Tertiary Total Petroleum System (PDF) (Report). Vol. U:S. Geological Survey Bulletin. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2022-04-06.
  2. ^ a b Rossello, Eduardo A.; Cossey, Stephen P.J.; Fernández, Gúzman (2022). "The hydrocarbon potential of the offshore Talara Basin, Peru". Andean Geology. 49 (1): 1–17. doi:10.5027/andgeoV49n1-3383.

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Sedimentary basins of Peru
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