Sismoestratigrafia dos depósitos cenozóicos da Bacia Salaverry, porção offshore do Peru : novas interpretações do sistema petrolífero

This study is focused in Salaverry Basin, Peruvian Andes Forearc, which contains three oil seeps sampled and analyzed, suggesting at least one active petroleum system inside the basin. Seismic stratigraphic analysis calibrated with available well and core data, and integrated with Apatite fission track (AFT) analysis was performed in order to provide the spatial-temporal evolution of Cenozoic depositional systems in this basin. It has been developed in extensional tectonic setting punctuated by compressive periods controlled by the interaction between Nazca and South American plates, and Nazca ridge subduction. As a result, the Cenozoic succession in the central portion of Salaverry Basin is best subdivided into eleven seismic stratigraphic sequences (S1– S11), controlled predominantly by tectonism and also by sea-level fluctuations. Indeed, this work adds new potential reservoir rocks in the S1, S2, S4, S5, S7 and S8 sequences; and seal rocks in the S3, S6, S7 and S9–S11 ones for the petroleum systems previously defined in the basin. Fission track thermochronology analysis on apatite suggest a main uplift event in the basin at ca. 25 Ma, which triggered the erosion of Oligocene rocks and the uppermost section of the Upper Eocene deposits, and is correlated with the Incaic III tectonic phase. These new petroleum system elements are related to the proposed potential plays, which in turn through a follow-up assessment would become in very attractive exploratory prospects in Salaverry Basin central portion.