PETROLEUM GEOLOGY OF CAMBAY BASIN, GUJARAT, INDIA

SYNOPSIS
A well-researched book dealing with all aspects of petroleum geology of the basin. The book is well illustrated by over 70 figs

A well-researched book dealing with all the aspects of petroleum geology of the basin. The book is well illustrated by over 70 figures.
The book deliberates on BASIN ARCHITECTURE

• Basement-Lineaments

• Basement Blocks

• Composite Nature of the Brain

 Discuss ORIGIN OF THE BASIN

• General

• Subsidence Along Ancient Tectonic Trends

• Quadruple Junction Hypothesis

STRATIGRAPHY, both, Surface & Subsurface
BASIN EVOLUTION AND BASIN FILLING:- The four phases of basin evolution are discussed.
HABIT OF OIL:-

• Source Rocks

• Variation in Crude Oil Gravities

• Migration

• Traps

• Petroleum systems are adequately discussed.

• Association of Oil and Coal

• Crude oil types

• Reservoir rocks

• Timing aspect

HISTORY OF OIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION:- is well enumerated.
Salient features of major OIL AND GAS FIELDS are brought out.

An in depth study of the information provided in the book can help an explorationist /Researcher in finding more oil in this mature basin.

ISBN: 81-900361-3-0 2004, 200P.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

L.R.Chaudhary
He holds a Masters degree in geology from the University of Rajasthan, India. Over the years, he has been actively associated in various oil and gas field exploration and development activities. Between 1959 and 1975, the author, then an employee of ONGC, worked mostly in the Cambay Basin in various disciplines. While with the ONGC, he was actively associated in the discovery and development of several oil and gas fields in the northern Cambay Basin, and subsequently in the study of its subsurface stratigraphy and basin geology. Between 1975 and 1987, Deminex employed him as a subsurface geologist and geochemist in Iran and Egypt. Since 1987, he ahs been consulting to the oil industry in India. He is an active member of AAPG since 1975.