CESAR-RANCHERIA BASIN

Analysis on The Importance of The Cesar-Rencheria Basin for The

Colombian Oil and Mining Industry
TOVAR -CASANOVA, Juan Camilo; ARCINIEGAS-HARTMAN, Daniel
Ernesto; RUNZA-BUITRAGO, Sebastian

OBJECTIVE
To research on the basin formations.

To identify the events that formed the

basin, its stratigraphy, oil system and
faults.

To assess the Kerogen type and the basin

generating potential

INTRODUCTION
The current emergence and development
of the oil and mining industry has drawn
great attention to the exploration of new
basins. Such is the case of Cesar-
Rancheria owing to its financially
appealing potential to generate coal and
hydrocarbons. Nonetheless, it is a must HCS MIGRATION
for the engineers to find the thermal
According to geochemical models, this phenomenon
history, generation age, migration
occurs throughout the Oliogocene and it has continued
processes and hydrocarbon traps in the nowadays. The migration routes are thrust faults which
petroleum system so the oil, gas and coal cut the cretaceous Cenozoic sedimentary cover.
may be extracted.

GEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK TRAPS

The subduction and its thrust fault of the
Caribbean plate under the South
American continent generated a
compressive stress towards the
Southeast, while the collision and push
on the Northern edge of the Santander
Massif -due to the Andean displacement-
caused a stress on the Northeast. Adding
up, the barrier effect exerted by the
Seismic interpretation has revealed the presence
of hydrocarbon traps that are found folded in
thrust faults. In addition, the unconformities
between La Luna Molino, Molino-Cerrejon
constitute statrigraphic traps for oil and gas.
CONCLUSIONS
The basin contributes to the extractions of oil,
gas and coal due to its kereogen types II, III & IV.

Guyana shield located in the Southeast, The basin was formed by compressive stresses.
created a compressive stress towards the
North. there are 57 oil wells but most of them were
abandoned due to the low amount of reserves

OIL SYSTEM
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