Norway's Equinor agrees that there is considerable potential to be found in the
Paleogene as well as in the more mature Miocene, which is popular among the independents returning to the Gulf.
The boundary marks the geological end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the
Paleogene period, which is the period humanity lives in.
The pre-rift sediments in these Cenozoic basins include the Jurassic (equivalent Kuhlan Formation and the Amran group), Cretaceous (equivalent Tawilah and Mahra groups) and
Paleogene (equivalent Hadramawt group) sediments.
New Observations on the Biostratigraphy of the Saudi Arabian Ummer Radhuma Formation (
Paleogene) and its correlation with neighboring regions, Micropaleontology, 31, 335-364.
In the early
Paleogene, the movement direction of the Pacific plate changed to NNW direction, the TanLu fault zone began to be left-lateral strike-slip, and the basin area has further expanded.
The Perdido development is Shell's pioneering deep water oil and gas project that unlocked a new frontier of energy development in the Gulf of Mexico's Lower Tertiary
Paleogene. The Perdido production hub produces oil and gas from the Silvertip, Great White and Tobago fields.
The Eocene Epoch is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the
Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era.
Amongst these, only a few short-ranging, age diagnostic taxa are included, some of which are well known to be typically Cretaceous and others typical
Paleogene forms, while the rest are long ranging.
Each of them jumped forward precisely at the junction of the Cretaceous and
Paleogene periods - formerly known as the KT boundary - when the disaster happened.