New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals Releases 2016 Petroleum Exploration Data Pack

New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals, the government's petroleum permitting agency, has released its 2016 Petroleum Exploration Data Pack.

This year’s data pack adds a number of new projects to the comprehensive compilation of open-file seismic and well data, interpretation projects, reports and studies available in previous editions.

The update includes new open-file data for an additional 40 wells, and additional 430,500 line km’s of 2D and 37,000km2 of 3D seismic data; the final Fluid Inclusion Stratigraphy Study of ten wells across the Great South, Taranaki, East Coast and Reinga-Northland basins; and a Petroleum Prospectivity Screening Report of the northern East Coast Basin.

It includes information on the Taranaki, Tasman Frontier, Reinga-Northland, East Coast, Pegasus, Raukaumara, West Coast, West Southland, Wanganui, and Great South-Canterbury basins.

NZP&M Manager commercial analysis and investment David Darby said the 2016 Petroleum Exploration Data Pack delivers an updated selection of our best data.