page_title: Golfo San Jorge Basin
hierarchical_section_title: Golfo San Jorge Basin
caption_attribution_description: Español: Primer pozo de petróleo en Comodoro Rivadavia, descubierto en 1907. Inventario 45883 General Archive of the Nation (Argentina)&#160;&#160;Native nameArchivo General de la Nación ArgentinaLocationBuenos Aires, ArgentinaEstablished28 August 1821WebsiteAGNAuthority control : Q2860529 This file, was provided to Wikimedia Commons thanks to an agreement between the General Archive of the Nation of Argentina and Wikimedia Argentina.
context_page_description: The Golfo San Jorge Basin is a hydrocarbon-rich sedimentary basin located in eastern Patagonia, Argentina. The basin covers the entire San Jorge Gulf and an inland area west of it, having one half located in Santa Cruz Province and the other in Chubut Province. The northern boundary of the basin is the North Patagonian Massif while the Deseado Massif forms the southern boundary of the basin. The basin has largely developed under condition of extensional tectonics, including rifting.
  The basin is of paleontological significance as it hosts six out of 22 defining formations for the SALMA classification, the geochronology for the Cenozoic used in South America.
  At the center of the basin accumulated sediments reach more than 8,000 metres of thickness. Oil was first discovered in 1907 and over the years it has become the second most productive hydrocarbon basin in Argentina after Neuquén Basin.
context_section_description: The Golfo San Jorge Basin (Spanish: Cuenca del Golfo San Jorge) is a hydrocarbon-rich sedimentary basin located in eastern Patagonia, Argentina. The basin covers the entire San Jorge Gulf and an inland area west of it, having one half located in Santa Cruz Province and the other in Chubut Province. The northern boundary of the basin is the North Patagonian Massif while the Deseado Massif forms the southern boundary of the basin. The basin has largely developed under condition of extensional tectonics, including rifting.
  The basin is of paleontological significance as it hosts six out of 22 defining formations for the SALMA classification, the geochronology for the Cenozoic used in South America.
  At the center of the basin accumulated sediments reach more than 8,000 metres (26,000 ft) of thickness. Oil was first discovered in 1907 and over the years it has become the second most productive hydrocarbon basin in Argentina after Neuquén Basin.
caption: Photograph of the first oil well in Comodoro Rivadavia
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