Map showing the location of Trinidad and its main hydrocarbon assets with respect to the location of the East Venezuela Basin
The Columbus Basin is a foreland basin located off the south eastern coast of Trinidad within the East Venezuela Basin (EVB). Due to the intensive deformation occurring along the Caribbean and South American plates in this region, the basin has a unique structural and stratigraphic relationship. The Columbus Basin has been a prime area for hydrocarbon exploration and production as its structures, sediments and burial history provide ideal conditions for generation and storage of hydrocarbon reserves. The Columbus Basin serves as a depocenter for the Orinoco River delta, where it is infilled with 15 km of fluvio-deltaic sediment.[1] The area has also been extensively deformed by series of north west to southeast normal faults and northeast to southwest trending anticline structures.[2]
^Wood, L.J. (2000). "Chronostratigraphy and Tectonostratigraphy of the Columbus Basin, Eastern Offshore Trinidad". AAPG Bulletin. 84 (12): 1905–1928. doi:10.1306/8626c721-173b-11d7-8645000102c1865d.
^Garciacaro, E.; Mann, P.; Escalona, A. (2011). "Regional structure and tectonic history of the obliquely colliding Columbus foreland basin, offshore Trinidad and Venezuela". Marine and Petroleum Geology. 28 (1): 126–148. doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2009.08.016.
The ColumbusBasin is a foreland basin located off the south eastern coast of Trinidad within the East Venezuela Basin (EVB). Due to the intensive deformation...
Christopher Columbus (/kəˈlʌmbəs/; between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa...
sub-basins across the Trinidad area; each having distinctive petroleum systems. The hydrocarbon basins in Trinidad are Southern Basin, ColumbusBasin, Carupano...
stratigraphy. Columbus: Merrill Pub. Co. p. 265. ISBN 0675204879. Ingersoll, Raymond V. (22 December 2011). "Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins, with Revised...
Apalachicola–Chattahoochee–Flint River Basin (ACF River Basin). The Chattahoochee makes up the largest part of the ACF's drainage basin. The source of the Chattahoochee...
world. Columbus Circle with Union Station in the early 20th century The Columbus Fountain in 1919 Columbus Fountain is a semicircular double-basin fountain...
Arawaks' language was Iëre which meant "Land of the Hummingbird". Christopher Columbus renamed it La Isla de la Trinidad ('The Island of the Trinity'), fulfilling...
southern basin. The ancient Greeks referred to the Indians as Indoi (Ἰνδοί), which translates as "The people of the Indus". In 1492, Christopher Columbus and...
The Gulf of Mexico (Spanish: Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent...
The Columbus Channel or Serpent's Mouth (Spanish: Boca de la Serpiente), is a strait lying between Icacos Point in southwest Trinidad and Tobago and the...
is the primary river, and second-longest river, of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern...
Atlantic, it was the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 that proved to be the most consequential. Columbus' expedition ushered in an age of exploration...
the longest rivers in South America at 2,140 km (1,330 mi). Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers ca 1 million km2, with 65% of...
the major portion of Mahanadi basin now lies in Chhattisgarh. Presently, only 169 square kilometres (65 sq mi) basin area of Hasdeo River in Anuppur...
San Fernando Valley or San Gabriel Valley, and the coastal Los Angeles Basin. The two northernmost cities in Los Angeles County, Palmdale and Lancaster...
the center of Grant Park, the city's front yard near the intersection of Columbus Drive and Ida B. Wells Drive. The fountain itself represents Lake Michigan...
in Columbus, Georgia between 1977 and 1978, although police and prosecutors believe him to be responsible for up to seven rape-murders in Columbus. DNA...
Center of Science and Industry, is a science museum and research center in Columbus, Ohio. COSI was opened to the public on 29 March 1964 and remained there...
Amazon basin, where the Arawakan languages developed. The Taíno were among the first American people to encounter Europeans. Christopher Columbus visited...
and hydrology of the Platte River basin from the Colorado and Wyoming borders to Columbus, including the Loup basin. This improved understanding could...
tenth-most densely populated state. Its capital and most populous city is Columbus, with other large population centers including Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton...
Global Information