New AAPG Memoir Sheds Light on Colombian Caribbean Margin
Paul Mann and Claudio Bartolini have spent years conducting exploration activities and research programs along the vast Caribbean region. Their work focuses mainly on the evolution of sedimentary basins and petroleum systems analysis offshore and onshore areas.
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Paul Mann and Claudio Bartolini have spent years conducting exploration activities and research programs along the vast Caribbean region. Their work focuses mainly on the evolution of sedimentary basins and petroleum systems analysis offshore and onshore areas.
Given the extensive exploration activities of the oil industry along the Caribbean, Mann and Bartolini decided to put together a volume that could provide new insights and contribute to the geoscience community and the industry.
That volume is the new, 27-chapter AAPG Memoir 108 "Petroleum Geology and Potential of the Colombian Caribbean Margin."
The Caribbean area has been the subject of extensive academic and commercially-oriented studies that have led to an understanding of the region's geology and economic potential. In addition, it is important to recognize the long-term efforts of Ecopetrol in educating geoscientists, along with the National Agency of Hydrocarbons in making their data available for academic research. These two entities are the main reservoir of petroleum geology knowledge in Colombia. Additionally, the volumes generated during the Bolivarian Congress, which is held every two years in Cartagena, Colombia, are another, long-term, Colombia-based effort to foster geoscience research.
An expanded report on Bartolini and Mann's volume is set for the August EXPLORER.