Deepwater Sedimentary Systems: Science, Discovery and Applications helps readers identify, understand and interpret deepwater sedimentary systems at various scales - both onshore and offshore. This book describes the best practices in the integration of geology, geophysics, engineering, technology and economics used to inform smart business decisions in these diverse environments. It draws on technical results gained from deepwater exploration and production drilling campaigns and global field analog studies. With the multi-decadal resilience of deepwater exploration and production and the nature of its inherent uncertainty, this book serves as the essential reference for companies, consultancies, universities, governments and deepwater practitioners around the world seeking to understand deepwater systems and how to explore for and produce resources in these frontier environments. From an academic perspective, readers will use this book as the primer for understanding the processes, deposits and sedimentary environments in deep water - from deep oceans to deep lakes. This book provides conceptual approaches and state-of-the-art information on deepwater systems, as well as scenarios for the next 100 years of human-led exploration and development in deepwater, offshore environments. The students taught this material in today's classrooms will become the leaders of tomorrow in Earth's deepwater frontier. This book provides a broad foundation in deepwater sedimentary systems. What may take an individual dozens of academic and professional courses to achieve an understanding in these systems is provided here in one book.

1. Introduction to deepwater sedimentary systems 2. Source Rocks and Fluid Systems in Deep-water Plays 3. Tectonic and Crustal Models for Rifted-Passive and Transform-Passive Margins and their Remaining, Unsolved Problems 4. Deepwater Passive Margin Fold Belts 5. Salt Tectonics in Deepwater Settings 6. Deepwater Sedimentary Processes 7. Deepwater Sedimentation Units 8. Deepwater Depositional Environments 9. Contourites and mixed depositional systems: A paradigm for deep-marine sedimentary environments 10. Mass-Transport, Injections and Other Forms of Sediment Mobility 11. Source-to-Sink Analysis of Deepwater Systems: Principles, Applications, and Case Studies 12. Sequence Stratigraphy of Deepwater Systems 13. Reservoir Quality and Diagenesis of Deepwater Sandstones 14. Applied Paleontology in Oil and Gas Exploration and Development 15. Ichnology of Deepwater Contourite Systems 16. Subsurface Imaging and Interpretation 17. Seismic Rock Physics and Machine Learning for Deepwater Stratigraphic Intervals 18. The Intersection Between Basin and Petroleum System Modeling and Forward Stratigraphic Modeling 19. Technical (Engineering) Advancements Enabling Deep-water Exploration and Production 20. Economic Considerations and Market Condition Effects in Deep Water 21. The Next 100 Years of Deepwater