Normal faults and gas migration in an active plate boundary, southernTaranaki Basin, offshore New Zealand

AAPG Bulletin

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1733-1756

  Ilg, Bradley R ^a,b   Hemmings Sykes, Samuel ^a,c,d   Nicol, Andrew ^a   Baur, Jan ^a,e   Fohrmann, Miko ^a   Funnell, Rob ^a   Milner, Mike ^a,f  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b Ministry of Economic Development   (New Zealand)

^c VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^d EXXONMOBIL   (Australia)

^e TOTAL   (France)

^f OMV   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHIMNEYS; FLOW OF GASES; GASES; HYDROCARBONS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

CRETACEOUS SOURCE ROCK; GAS MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON EXPULSION; LOW PERMEABILITY; NORMAL FAULTS; PLATE BOUNDARIES; TARANAKI BASINS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA;

FAULT SLIPS;

CRETACEOUS; FAULTING; GAS FLOW; GAS TRANSPORT; HYDROCARBON MIGRATION; HYDROCARBON SEEP; MUDSTONE; NORMAL FAULT; OFFSHORE APPLICATION; OLIGOCENE; PERMEABILITY; PLATE BOUNDARY; SEALING; SEISMIC DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION; SOURCE ROCK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC OCEAN; TARANAKI BASIN;

EID: 84866858682     PISSN: 01491423     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1306/02011211088     Document Type: Article

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