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Skua and Swift oil fields, Bonaparte Basin
Field:
Skua and Swift Oil Fields
Location:
Timor Sea
Top of HRDZ:
600–800 ms
Pull-up:
High
Intensity:
High
Amplitude Anomalies: Moderate
Area:
Moderate
Data Degradation: High
Several
HRDZs overlie the Skua Oil Field (Fig. 6), which produced over 20 MMBBL of oil
before it was abandoned. The HRDZs over the Skua Field are typically small
(0.2–1.5 km in length) and are closely controlled by the Mio-Pliocene fault
arrays (O’Brien and Woods, 1995; O’Brien et al, 1998a). Fluid inclusion data
(O’Brien et al, 1996) suggest that the field has a significant residual oil
column, though a sufficient volume of oil was retained to support a commercial
development. In contrast, the HRDZs over the Swift Field is much larger (1 by 4
km in length) and intense, consistent with the almost completely breached nature
of this structure.
Figure 6. HRDZs over the Skua
and Swift fields, Bonaparte Basin.
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