... Tertiary rocks are predominantly freshwater and coal bearing. Younger rocks are dominantly marine, and include considerable thickness of mudstone and limestone. Oil seepages along the West basin are associated almost entirely with the lower Tertiary coal measures. In the Taranaki basin a small oil field...

... been drilled in Westland, as the No. 3 “bore” hole 1 on land of the Greymouth Harbor Board near Dobson, which attained a depth of 2,165 feet, and the No. 4 “bore” hole 2 on the state coal reserve, which was 1,453 feet deep; but these were drilled for coal. Developments to date .—The presence...

...) and part of a second well near the Kotuku oil seepage in Westland, South Island. Both onshore and offshore total depth drilled was 9,450 m, down 46%. Production from the Kapuni field was increased to 2,261,903 cu m of gas (218.8 MMCFGD, up 59.3%) and 860,973 cu m of condensate (14,837 b/d, up 43.4%). Work...

... Wakatipu, climbing Double Cone, and exploring coal fields) when Hector became preoccupied with another exhibition. Figure 5. James Hector MD (1834–1907) as a young man. (Photograph courtesy of the New Zealand Geological Survey). For the New Zealand Exhibition of 1865, held in Dunedin, Hector...

... dikes in Nelson have been dated as 86–80 Ma ( Adams and Nathan, 1978 ; recalculated by Laird, 1994 ). The inception of seafloor spreading also marks the beginning of the formation of the Paparoa Basin near Greymouth and the deposition of the Paparoa Coal Measures in a series of half graben ( Laird...

... km; 2 important areas were relinquished and others were enlarged. One rig was drilling throughout the year, totaling 6,230 m. Seismic surveys amounted to 7 party-months and 554.55 km, which is 66% of 1978. Platform A of the Maui field started production in June. Despite this, the combined production...

... ± 3 10 20 50 (B) West Coast Basin (10) 9MB2 (R24347) Paparoa Coal Measures, Nine Mile Bluff, Greigs a 524 ± 8 5 8 b 647 ± 9 5 8 c 1000 ± 14 4 7 64 a 503 ± 5 6 9 b 536 ± 5 6 9 c 563 ± 6 5 7 709 ± 9 4 6 70...

... at Gorge Saddle, Western Southland Earth Sci J 1970 4 141 44 Fyfe H. E. Suggate R. P. The geology of Murchison Subdivision Bull. geol. Surv. N.Z. n.s. 1968 36 Gage M. The Greymouth Coalfield Bull. geol. Surv. N.Z. n.s. 1952 45 Grindley G. W. The geology...

... encompasses the New Zealand Coal Band), Carboniferous vitrinites, and fusains (after Suggate, 1959b; Van Krevelen, 1961 ; Takahashi and Aihara, 1989 ; R. P. Suggate, 1994, personal communication). The general fields of types I, II, and III kerogen are also shown (after Béhar and Vandenbroucke, 1986...

... – 804 . Gage , M. , and Bartrum , J.A. , 1942 , Cone-in-cone and ring-fracture in coal from Greymouth, New Zealand : New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology , 24 . 86 – 98 . Gehling , J.G. , Narbonne , G.M. , and Anderson , M.M. , 2000 , The first named...

... et al. 1986 ; Field et al. 1989 ; Laird 1994 , 1995 ). These fragmentary exposures allow rift-related sequences to be dated, but often provide limited information on fault geometries and synrift basin morphology. In contrast, offshore Cretaceous basins, imaged in seismic reflection lines...

... economic minerals and hydrocarbons. By studying coal rank data of Paleocene and younger foreland basin sedimentary rocks of Alberta, Hitchon (1984) recognized that a reversal in geothermal gradient patterns had occurred during thrusting and folding, which he attributed to migration of fluids in a two...

...? Along with the enumeration of details, however, there are numerous anecdotes and real-world examples of how KGS scientists got things done, from surmounting field hardships to squeezing money out of administrators and politicians. Even current-news events make an appearance, such as the issue of Federal...

... New Zealand showing the location of the Taranaki Basin (west of the Taranaki fault and north of South Island) and some of the main oil and gas fields. Also shown are the location of the Fresne-1 drill hole and the line of cross section AA' illustrated in Figure 2 . The inversion...

... Syncolporites aff. S. anibalii Hoorn 1994 Plate 8 , figures 12–13, sample sp68, EF H-50-1/3. Monad, radial, isopolar, triangular amb; syncolporate, ectocolpi 14 μm long, apocolpial field absent, CEi 0.6, colpi costate, costae 1 μm thick, 1 μm wide, ends rounded, borders slightly invaginated...

... described from the Central Rand QPCs (Figure 6A of England et al., 2002 ), the Fire Clay coal bed in the Pennsylvanian Breathitt Formation (Figure 5 of Ruppert et al., 2005 ) and from the lower Jurassic shales from the northeast coast of Yorkshire, England (Figure 6 of Carstens, 1986 ). The formation...

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... of Petroleum Geologists The writer was assigned the job of reporting to the Association at its annual meeting in Los Angeles on recent developments in foreign petroleum fields. On looking into the assignment, he found that activity in the search for or development of petroleum has been carried...