National Assessment of Oil and Gas Project - East Coast Mesozoic Basins of the Piedmont, Blue Ridge Thrust Belt, Atlantic Coastal Plain, and New England Provinces 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 here 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。评价单元在更高层级的石油系统（Total Petroleum System）框架内进行定义。本次展示的评价单元由负责对应含油气省的地质学家通过解释、定义与圈定的地理边界构成，其包含一组已知或假定的油气藏——这些油气藏在石油系统内具备相似的地质、地理与地质时间属性，涵盖烃源岩、成藏时序、运移路径、圈闭机制以及烃类类型等要素。评价单元的地质边界被定义为构成该单元的各类地质要素的分布范围，例如储集岩、地质构造、烃源岩与盖层岩性的边界。唯一例外的是与联邦-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。