Slope-to-basin floor sequences exposed in northern …...facies, providing insight into a variety of...
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Petroleum geoscience - tapping the energy www.gns.cri.nz contact us contact us For more information please contact: Business Development Manager VISIT www.gns.cri.nz/petroleum CALL +64-4-570 4683 Email: [email protected] GNS Science 1 Fairway Drive, Avalon Lower Hutt 5010 PO Box 30 368 Lower Hutt 5040 New Zealand T +64-4-570 1444 F +64-4-570 4603 fieldtrip series Slope-to-basin floor sequences exposed in northern Taranaki, New Zealand GNS Science invites you to visit the world-renowned exposures of the Miocene Mount Messenger/Urenui deep-water clastic depositional system in Taranaki, New Zealand. We have many years experience in leading field trips for petroleum companies and joint venture partners to this spectacular succession of basin floor to slope strata. Coastal cliffs north of New Plymouth, western North Island, provide an excellent, nearly continuous exposure through a diachronous, progradational, 3rd-order deep-water clastic depositional system of Late Miocene (Tortonian) age. The locality is recognised as one of the best outcrop analogues world-wide for examining the stratal architecture of deep-water successions. The 40 kilometre outcrop transect cuts obliquely through the 1500m-thick depositional succession. Interpretations of the overall depositional system are aided by a wide range of complementary industry and academic data, including results of a consortium-funded behind- outcrop stratigraphic drilling project on thin-bedded channelised slope fan turbidites. These data allow correlation from the outcrop into the subsurface, and characterisation of the overall depositional system at both exploration and production scales. The field trip is usually four days duration. excellent exposures of a wide range of basin floor to slope depositional facies, providing insight into a variety of sedimentary flow mechanisms and morphological processes general outcrop analogues for thin- bedded and thick-bedded deep-water sandstone reservoirs outcrop analogues of producing oil and gas reservoir units in the nearby Kaimiro and Ngatoro petroleum fields seismic-scale to thin-section scale observations, that can be linked to high resolution and regular industry seismic reflection data, exploration well log data, stratigraphic drillhole core and log data cyclic stacking of strata which provides opportunities to test deep- water sequence stratigraphic models, and component facies within the generic lowstand systems tract customised field trips we offer we offer fieldtrip duration: 4 days
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Petroleum geoscience - tapping the energywww.gns.cri.nz
contact us contact us For more information please contact: Business Development Manager
VISIT www.gns.cri.nz/petroleum
CALL +64-4-570 4683
Email: [email protected]
GNS Science1 Fairway Drive, AvalonLower Hutt 5010PO Box 30 368Lower Hutt 5040New ZealandT +64-4-570 1444F +64-4-570 4603
fieldtrip series
Slope-to-basin floor sequences exposed in northern Taranaki, New Zealand
GNS Science invites you to visit the world-renowned exposures of the Miocene Mount Messenger/Urenui deep-water clastic depositional system in Taranaki, New Zealand. We have many years experience in leading field trips for petroleum companies and joint venture partners to this spectacular succession of basin floor to slope strata.
Coastal cliffs north of New Plymouth, western North Island, provide an excellent, nearly continuous exposure through a diachronous, progradational, 3rd-order deep-water clastic depositional system of Late Miocene (Tortonian) age. The locality is recognised as one of the best outcrop analogues world-wide for examining the stratal architecture of deep-water successions. The 40 kilometre outcrop transect cuts obliquely through the 1500m-thick depositional succession.
Interpretations of the overall depositional system are aided by a wide range of complementary industry and academic data, including results of a consortium-funded behind-outcrop stratigraphic drilling project on thin-bedded channelised slope fan turbidites. These data allow correlation from the outcrop into the subsurface, and characterisation of the overall depositional system at both exploration and production scales.
The field trip is usually four days duration.
excellent exposures of a wide range of basin floor to slope depositional facies, providing insight into a variety of sedimentary flow mechanisms and morphological processes
general outcrop analogues for thin-bedded and thick-bedded deep-water sandstone reservoirs
outcrop analogues of producing oil and gas reservoir units in the nearby Kaimiro and Ngatoro petroleum fields
seismic-scale to thin-section scale observations, that can be linked to high resolution and regular industry seismic reflection data, exploration well log data, stratigraphic drillhole core and log data
cyclic stacking of strata which provides opportunities to test deep-water sequence stratigraphic models, and component facies within the generic lowstand systems tract
customised field trips
we offer we offer
fieldtrip duration: 4 days
