Overpressures in the Taranaki Basin: Distribution, causes, and implications for exploration

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 339-370

  Webster, Mark ^a   O'Connor, Stephen ^b   Pindar, Bitrus ^b   Swarbrick, Richard ^b  

^a Genesis Energy   (New Zealand)

^b Mountjoy Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAS CONDENSATES; HYDRAULICS; INFILL DRILLING; OIL WELL DRILLING; PROVEN RESERVES; REGIONAL PLANNING; SHALE;

CONDENSATE RESERVES; CONVENTIONAL MAPPING; DRILLING PARAMETERS; HYDRAULIC COMMUNICATION; HYDROCARBON GENERATION; INDIRECT MEASUREMENTS; PRESSURE TRANSITION; SUBSURFACE PRESSURE;

OIL WELL LOGGING;

CARBONATE; COMPACTION; CONDENSATE; DATABASE; DISEQUILIBRIUM; EOCENE; EXPLORATION; FAULT PLANE; FLUID FLOW; GRABEN; LITHOLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; OLIGOCENE; OVERPRESSURE; PRESSURE GRADIENT; REGIONAL GEOLOGY; SEALING; SEQUENCE BOUNDARY; SHALE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN;

EID: 79953687949     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/06301009149     Document Type: Article

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