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PEP 60092 Stage 1 Reservoir Petrography and Reservoir Provenance Report

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PEP60092, offshore Taranaki Basin, was awarded to OMV New Zealand Ltd in April 2015. This report presents findings of analytical studies of reservoir petrography and provenance of the Cretaceous North Cape and Paleocene Farewell Formations in the Northern Taranaki Basin. The provenance component determined the likely source of latest Cretaceous North Cape and Paleocene Farewell reservoir sandstones from cuttings samples in nine wells, through analysis of U-Pb isotopic ages of detrital zircon grains and modal sand mineralogy.

Report ID pr5447
Class Petroleum
Type Geological
Permit 60092
Operator OMV New Zealand Ltd
Commodity Petroleum
Region Taranaki Basin
Start Date 31 March 2017
End Date 31 March 2017
Report extents in GeoJSON
Author Wunderlich Alexander
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