M125: Giant Fields of the Decade: 2010-2020
Edited by
Charles A. Sternbach, Robert K. Merrill, and John C. Dolson
Chapter 1: Giant Fields and Exploration Trends of the Decade 2010–2019
Andrew Latham
Chapter 2: The Economic Effects of Giant Oil and Gas Discoveries
James Cust, David Mihalyi, and Alexis Rivera-Ballesteros
Chapter 3: Two Decades (2000–2020) and Five Paradigm Shifts Gleaned from AAPG’s Giant Fields Database
John C. Dolson, Zhiyong He, and Brian W. Horn
Chapter 4: Adding New Reserves and Production in Giant Fields
John S. Sneider, Michael Rosen, and Dorothy E. Ballentine
Chapter 5: Field Growth in the Supergiant Wattenberg Field, Denver Basin, Colorado, USA
Stephen A. Sonnenberg
Chapter 6: West Texas (Permian) Super Basin Unconventional Resources: Exploration, Discovery,
and Development
Bill Fairhurst
Chapter 7: Geology and Economy to De-risk the Unconventional Vaca Muerta Play, Argentina
Daniel Minisini and Fernando Sanchez Ferrer
Chapter 8: Johan Castberg: The First Giant Oil Discovery in the Barents Sea
Ketil Sollid, Leif Bjørnar Henriksen, Jan Ove Hansen, Olaf Thießen, Alf Ryseth, Simon Knight, and Audun Groth
Chapter 9: The Zafarani and Tangawizi Giant Gas Discoveries: Two Very Different Play Openers
Offshore Tanzania
Clemens Pirker and Nadya Badmaeva
Chapter 10: The Greater Tortue/Ahmeyim Field Discovery: Opening the Mauritania-Senegal
Deep-Water Gas Basin
Dorie McGuinness, Rhys Schneider, Jim Colliton, Stijn Konings, Jackie Reed, Mark Tomasso,
Chemsdine Sow Deina, and Joseph O. Medou
Chapter 11: Pikka Field and the Opening of the Nanushuk Play, North Slope, Alaska
Jesse V. Sommer, Kevin Dorrington, Colby VanDenberg, James R. Bonelli Jr., and José Luis Algibez Alonso
Chapter 12: Mexico—Area 1—Amoca, Miztón, and Tecoalli Oil Discoveries, Sureste Basin, Gulf of
Mexico
Tito Andrea Bianco and Emanuele Tozzi
Chapter 13: The Zama Discovery in Salina del Istmo Basin, Offshore Tabasco: “A New Dawn” for
Offshore Mexico Exploration
David Kosmitis, John Parker, Michael Albertson, Alex Obvintsev, David Tett, James Pasley, and Matthew Carr
Chapter 14: Zohr Giant Gas Discovery—A Paradigm Shift in Nile Delta and East Mediterranean
Exploration
Andrea Cozzi, Luca Assecondi, Luca Bertelli, Stella Brandolese, Antonio Cascone, Francesco Cornaggia, Antonio Giovannelli, Pietro Guarnieri, Paola Ronchi, Roberto Ruspi, Francesco Bertello, Hamad Harby, and Matteo Minervini
Chapter 15: Liza Field, Guyana: The Finding of a Stratigraphic Giant, from Early Exploration to
Production
Linda M. Price, Randy A. Perkey, Erik J. Oswald, and Elizabeth A. Elkington