Includes bibliographical references. Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 2, 2016)

This publication is intended to provide the working geologist, geophysicist, and petroleum engineer with a broad overview of the petroleum systems of deepwater settings. Deepwater depositional systems are the one type of reservoir system that cannot be easily reached, observed, and studied in the modern environment, in contrast to other siliciclastic and carbonate reservoir systems. The study of deepwater systems requires many different remote observation techniques, each of which can only provide information on one part of the entire depositional system. Introduction to Deepwater Systems -- Global Overview of Deepwater Exploration and Production / By Henry S. Pettingill -- Sequence Stratigraphic Setting of Deepwater Systems -- Sediment-Gravity Flows and Their Processes -- Overview of Deepwater-Reservoir Elements -- Deepwater-Reservoir Elements: Channels and Their Sedimentary Fill -- Deepwater-Reservoir Elements: Levee-Overbank Sediments and their Thin Beds -- Deepwater-Reservoir Elements: Sheet Sands and Sandstones -- Deepwater-Reservoir Elements: Mass-Transport Deposits and Slides -- Deepwater-Reservoir Elements: Hybrid-Type Deepwater Reservoirs -- Pitfalls in the Interpretation of Deepwater Deposits -- Biostratigraphy and Condensed Sections in Deepwater Settings / with Richard H. Fillon -- Reservoir Quality of Deepwater Deposits -- Deepwater Reservoir Modeling / By Matthew J. Pranter -- Petroleum Traps in Deepwater Settings / By Renaud Bouroullec, Gabor Tari -- Petroleum Systems of Deepwater Settings.