Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium III (EABS 2008)
Authors: M. Arnot, J. Baur, K. Bland, H. Bushe, R. Funnell, B. Ilg, C. Jones, P. King, B. Leitner, M. Masey, M. Milner, H.E. Morgans, L. Roncaglia and H. Zhu
Date Published: September 2008
Number of Pages: 4
Abstract:
The Taranaki Basin covers an area of approximately 100,000 km2 and is currently New Zealand’s only petroleum producing basin (Fig.1). In the mid-1990s a series of structural and paleogeographic maps were constructed from available seismic and well data by GNS Science (King & Thrasher 1996). These maps have been extensively utilised by exploration companies in assessments of potential petroleum prospective areas of the Taranaki Basin. GNS Science is undertaking a multi-year project with funding from the New Zealand Government to develop a new digital atlas of the structure and stratigraphy of the wider Taranaki Basin, New Zealand. The Taranaki Basin Seismic Mapping Project is an integrated project that combines up to date seismic interpretation, well and outcrop data, facies mapping and biostratigraphic data. As part of the project, important regional composite 2D seismic lines are being validated and sequentially restored as a structural modelling appendix to the project database. The long-term goal of the project is to create a rigorous framework for the next generation of 4D petroleum systems models of the Taranaki Basin. The aim is that the resultant database is dynamic rather than static, so that new data, be it new seismic data and interpretations or wells, can be easily incorporated into future models of the Taranaki Basin.