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Conference Proceedings 2000

Keynote Papers

Industry highlights 1998-2000

Exploration activities

Frontier basins

Field development

Field studies and management

Technology

Doing business in New Zealand

Risk Management

Oceans and environmental

Maui contract

Competition developments and access to pipelines

 

Title
Author
Paper
Keynote Papers
 
 
Keynote address by the Associate Minister of Energy
Hon P Swain
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [7 KB PDF]
Why invest in New Zealand energy opportunities: Energy Corporation of America’s perspective
J Mork

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [12 KB PDF]
Achieving a sustainable gas industry
Dr LWH Taylor

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [23 KB PDF]
Keynote address by the National Party Spokesperson for Energy
P Wong
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [14 KB PDF]
Basis for EEX’s entry into exploration in New Zealand
TM Hamilton
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [165 KB PDF]

 

Title
Author
Paper
Industry highlights 1998-2000
 
 
Exploration activities in New Zealand over the past two years MA Selvadurai
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [276 KB PDF]
Production, development and engineering highlights in 1998 and 1999
C Beath
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [167 KB PDF]
Legal and commercial highlights of 1998 and 1999: "Industry realignment"

JMD Willis

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [48 KB PDF]

 

Title Author Paper
Exploration activities
   
Structure of the Nga Motu Dome and its potential for oil and gas resources
B Leitner, V Stagpoole and G Thrasher [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [3.9 MB PDF]
Tariki sandstone prospectivity in PEP 38718, onshore Taranaki
D Waghorne, T Brewster and J Anderson [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.3 MB PDF] 
New Zealand’s Taranaki Basin: An attractive investment opportunity AE Swift [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [22 KB  PDF]
Basin modelling of oil plays northwest of Maui: Results, constraints and calibrations A McAlpine [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [710 KB PDF]
East Coast offshore exploration JB Frederick, PG Smith, WL Leask, D Spancers and TJ Williams [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.3 MB PDF]
East Coast drilling results EJ Davies, JB Frederick, WL Leask and TJ Williams [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.7 MB PDF]
The East Coast Basin: Where to from here? D Francis Request Paper
Offshore Taranaki exploration E Matthews [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.6 MB PDF]
Preliminary results of exploration in the onshore Canterbury Basin D Bennett, R Brand, D Francis, S Langdale, C Mills, B Morris, and X Tian [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [378 KB PDF]
Waiau Basin, Southland: An overview of petroleum systems elements JM Beggs, S Hayton, GP Thrasher, R Sykes and AR Smith [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [2.9 MB PDF]

 

Title
Author
Paper
Frontier basins
 
 
New Zealand’s changing configuration in the last 100 million years: plate tectonics, basin development, and depositional setting P King
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.9 MB PDF]
Petroleum potential of New Zealand’s deepwater basins
C Uruski
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [257 kB PDF]
Recent progress in understanding the structure and petroleum potential of southern South Island’s frontier basins R Sutherland [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [177 kB PDF]
Deepwater, frontier basins of northwestern New Zealand - Burial history and hydrocarbon maturation V Stagpoole [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [9.5 MB PDF]

 

 

Title
Author
Paper
Field development
 
 
Maari-1/1A — Results and implications for development BA Rogers, SA Adams, GCJ Holstege, CA Nazzer, TP Viets and IM Young
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.1 MB PDF]
The Mangahewa gas field
TC Sebire
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [643 KB PDF]

 

Title
Author
Paper
Field studies and management
 
 
Making the most of production logging information

TC Sebire
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [2 MB PDF]
The Lower D sands in the Maui Field: Thin oil column development using an integrated scenario modelling approach
R Mathers, H Soek and R Farmer

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.6 MB PDF]
A summary of data indicating increased reservoir complexity in the McKee Field
PJ Rickard [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.3 MB PDF]
Ngatoro Field – A middle-aged turbidite reservoir
P Ettema, K Mills, R Buchan and E Matthews [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [2.1 MB PDF]
Lithology prediction in the Taranaki Basin using neural network applications
CL Gosse and BA Sissons
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [16 KB PDF]
Business options for management of declining fields
PL Barron [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [182 KB PDF]

 

 

Title Author Paper
Technology
   
Compaction of sedimentary rocks
MJ Wiltshire and LM Huggard [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [270 KB PDF]
Petroleum source rock potential of North Cape Formation (Late Cretaceous) coaly sediments, Taranaki Basin
R Sykes and MJ Dow [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.2 MB PDF]
State-of-the-art SCAL experiments and interpretation MHV Verbruggen, RG Farmer and SJ Adams [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [269 KB PDF]  
Wide-aperture 3D acquisition over the Mangahewa Field, PPL 38705 Taranaki Basin EM Wilkinson [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [1.2 MB PDF] 
Braver and better velocities in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand D Humphris and J Ravens [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF].  [403 KB PDF]
Portfolio management through the convergence of knowledge and e-business technologies CM Rogers Request Paper
Laboratory and in-situ determination of residual gas saturations in Maui SJ Adams, RG Farmer, D Hawton and O Seybold [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [155 KB PDF]
Application of VRFTM (vitrinite reflectance and fluorescence) to maturity assessment in the East Coast and Canterbury basins of New Zealand J Newman, N Moore and K Eckersley [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [375 KB PDF]
Diagenesis of the late Cretaceous Kawau Sandstone, Great South Basin, New Zealand: Implications for reservoir potential DN Jillett [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [1.2 MB PDF]
The time-calibrated composite — A powerful tool in basin exploration RA Cooper, JS Crampton and CI Uruski [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [1.7 MB PDF]
Patterns of fluid flow in the East Coast Basin, New Zealand D Darby, R Funnell, CI Uruski and BD Field [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [1.3 MB PDF]
Numerical modelling of basin evolution, with application to southwest New Zealand P Upton [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [416 KB PDF]

 

 

Title
Author
Paper
Doing business in New Zealand  
 
Why do business in New Zealand?

FC Alexander Jr and D Johnston
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [58 KB PDF]
Understanding our Trans-Tasman neighbours: New Zealand and Australian requirements — A comparison
P Foley and J Watson

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [26 KB PDF] 
Maori claims to petroleum
DW Tapsell

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [40 KB PDF]
An appropriate return to the Crown from the petroleum estate
ER Cole [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [42 KB PDF]
Exploring for oil at the coalface
RW Plume
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [44 KB PDF]
Investment opportunities in New Zealand C Stone [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [120 KB PDF]

 

 

Title
Author
Paper
Risk Management
 
 
Probability and the petroleum system: Issues for investors in the upstream oil and gas industry
SJ O’Connor
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [88 KB PDF]
Offshore installations: Summary of requirements under the Maritime Transport Act 1994
D Crawford and P Irving
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [17 KB PDF]
Risk management: The New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy
P Irving and D Crawford [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [69 KB PDF]
The New Zealand marine oil spill risk assessment 1998
V Lenting and C Pratt
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [101 KB PDF]

 

 

Title
Author
Paper
Oceans and environmental
 
 
New Zealand’s Continental Shelf project J Sheppard and R Pickering
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [246 KB PDF]
Taranaki — A good place to do business
HJ Weake
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [929 KB PDF]
The Resource Management Act in the new millennium
PH Mitchell and RJ Matthews

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [27 KB PDF] 

 

 

 

Title
Author
Paper
Maui contract
 
 
Maui Contract: Who would want to be a downstream purchaser?

BN Gundersen
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [21 KB PDF]
Role of the Crown in the Maui contract
DW Taylor
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [23 KB PDF]
The Maui gas contract
DJ Salisbury

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [310 KB PDF]

 

 

 

Title
Author
Paper
Competition developments and access to pipelines  
 
Impact of the Commerce Act on the petroleum exploration and downstream energy industry and development downstream energy industry

J Belgrave
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [24 KB PDF]
Changes to the regulatory environment
SJ Gale

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [16 KB PDF]
Issues for defining relevant markets for competition analysis in the oil and gas industry
CJ Pleatsikas

[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [5 KB PDF]
Todd Energy
R Tweedie [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [105 KB PDF]
Access to gas pipelines
JA van der Voorn
[internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [15 KB PDF] 
What’s hot and what’s not I Wilson [internal link] New Zealand’s exploration outlook [38 kB PDF]. [82 KB PDF]

 

 

 

 

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