Australian company Frogtech Geoscience has released a new study of geologically complex region in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand.
The comprehensive basement-focused study, South China Sea SEEBASE, comprises new, terrane-based plate reconstructions of the Proto-South China with deeper insights into the region's tectonic evolution.
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Analysis of the Paleotethys suture's fundamental tectonic structure reveals that it has developed a regional rheological and thermal boundary that facilitates development of hydrocarbon-rich basins over time.
Redefining of structural and tectonic model will provide explorers with a detailed understanding of the early rift depocentres that can host potential source rocks.
The South China Sea region is known to have a complicated history of rifting that caused hyperextension and local mantle exhumation. These processes affected the nature and evolution of associated basins and hydrocarbon systems.
The published study will enable the oil and gas explorers to understand the development of petroleum systems elements (reservoir/source/seal) and processes through time.
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By GlobalDataFrogtech completed this study using integrated potential field and geological datasets. This allowed the company to provide a detailed structural model that overcomes the challenge of seismic imaging of deep basin geometries of South China Sea region, where very thick sediments and carbonates prevent accurate resolution of structures in deepsea conditions.
