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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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