USGS National and Global Oil and Gas Assessment Project-Permian Basin Province, Val Verde Basin, Canyon Sandstones Assessment Units

The Assessment Unit is the fundamental unit used in the National Assessment Project for the assessment of undiscovered oil and gas resources. The Assessment Unit is defined within the context of the higher-level Total Petroleum System. The Assessment Unit is shown herein as a geographic boundary interpreted, defined, and mapped by the geologist responsible for the province and incorporates a set of known or postulated oil and (or) gas accumulations sharing similar geologic, geographic, and temporal properties within the Total Petroleum System, such as source rock, timing, migration pathways, trapping mechanism, and hydrocarbon type. The Assessment Unit boundary is defined geologically as the limits of the geologic elements that define the Assessment Unit, such as limits of reservoir rock, geologic structures, source rock, and seal lithologies. The only exceptions to this are Assessment Units that border the Federal-State water boundary. In these cases, the Federal-State water boundary forms part of the Assessment Unit boundary.

评价单元（Assessment Unit）是国家未发现油气资源评价项目中用于评估未发现油气资源的基本单元。评价单元是在更高层级的含油气系统（Total Petroleum System）框架内进行定义的。本文所呈现的评价单元，由负责对应地质省的地质学家通过解释、界定并圈绘的地理边界所确定，其包含一套在含油气系统内具备相似地质、地理与时间属性的已知或假定油气藏，例如烃源岩、成藏时序、运移路径、圈闭机制以及烃类类型等。评价单元的边界在地质上被定义为构成该评价单元的各类地质要素的分布范围，诸如储集岩、地质构造、烃源岩以及盖层岩性的边界。唯一的例外是与联邦-州水域边界接壤的评价单元，此类情形下，联邦-州水域边界将作为评价单元边界的组成部分。