Petroleum Systems and Assessment of the South Florida Basin

The objective of the National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project is to provide estimates of ?potential? additions to oil and gas reserves in priority geologic provinces of the onshore and State waters portion of the United States. ?Potential? additions mean those undiscovered oil and gas resources that have geologic potential to be added to the U.S. reserve base over the next 30 years, a societally meaningful time frame relevant to all U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessments.

The South Florida Basin, the focus of this report, is part of the Florida Peninsula Province (USGS Province 50). The South Florida Basin was assessed for undiscovered conventional oil and gas resources. New data and interpretations were included in this assessment, particularly data on oil geochemistry and petroleum systems of the South Florida Basin.