Great South Basin
Area of mainly sea to the south of the South Island of New Zealand
The Great South Basin is an area of mainly sea to the south of the South Island of New Zealand.
Starting in the 1960s, the area was explored and drilled for oil deposits by various, mostly international minerals companies — including Hunt Oil — but by 1984 all of these companies had left empty-handed.[1]
With advances in seismic surveying and drilling technology, hopes have been raised once again for a potential oil strike. Since 2006, new tenders for drilling rights have been issued.[2]
In 2010, ExxonMobil and Todd Energy relinquished their exploration rights, citing technical difficulties and the harshness of the environment.[3] Royal Dutch Shell subsequently purchased a stake in a joint venture headed by OMV New Zealand,[4] with drilling announced at the start of 2014.[5] In 2020, OMV plugged and abandoned the well after failing to find any oil.[6] Anadarko Petroleum made a test drilling in the area in early 2014, without success.[7] Schlumberger subsequently made a drilling attempt in the same areas later in the year.[7]
References
- ^ Crown Minerals - Great South Basin Timeline
- ^ Bidding opens for oil and gas in Great South Basin
- ^ "Exxon Mobil abandons Great South Basin". New Zealand Herald. 11 October 2010.
- ^ "Shell-joins-southern-oil-hunt Shell joins southern oil hunt". BusinessDay.co.nz. 16 August 2011.
- ^ "Shell proceeds with Great South Basin drilling". Stuff. 7 January 2014.
- ^ "OMV comes up dry in Great South Basin". 20 February 2020.
- ^ a b "Greenpeace hits out at prospect plan". Radio New Zealand. 25 October 2014.
External links
- Oil,Gas & Minerals Of Southland, New Zealand
- Crown Minerals Group - Ministry of Economic Development Archived 14 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
- WikiLeaks Cable 06WELLINGTON551, NEW ZEALAND MAY SEE BIGGER HUNT FOR OIL AND GAS
47°06′S 169°42′E / 47.1°S 169.7°E / -47.1; 169.7
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Oceanic features of Zealandia
- Western Province (North Zealandia)
- Eastern Province (South Zealandia)
- Bellona Plateau
- Bounty Platform
- Campbell Plateau
- Challenger Plateau
- Chatham Rise
- Chesterfield Plateau
- Colville-Lau Ridge
- Dampier Ridge
- Fairway Ridge
- Hikurangi Plateau
- Kenn Plateau
- Lord Howe Rise
- Loyalty Ridge
- Mellish Rise
- Norfolk Ridge
- Northland Plateau
- Puysegur Ridge
- Resolution Ridge
- Three Kings Ridge
- West Norfolk Ridge
- Bellona Gap
- Bellona Trough
- Bounty Trough
- Havre Trough
- Hikurangi Trench
- New Caledonia Trough
- Puysegur Trench
- Bellona Basin
- Campbell Basin
- Canterbury Basin
- Capel Basin
- Cato Basin
- Chatham Slope
- Dampier Basin
- Deepwater Taranaki Basin
- East Coast Basin
- Emerald Basin
- Fairway Basin
- Faust Basin
- Gower Basin
- Great South Basin
- Middleton Seafloor Basin
- Monowai Basin
- Moore Basin
- New Caledonia Basin
- Norfolk Basin
- Northeast Slope
- Northland Basin
- Outer Campbell Basin
- Pegasus Basin
- Pukaki Basin
- Raukumara Basin
- Reinga Basin
- South Fiji Basin
- South Loyalty Basin
- Taranaki Basin
- Wanganui Basin
- West Coast Basin
- Banc Capel
- Brothers Volcano
- Clark Seamount
- Flinder's Seamount
- Gifford Guyot
- Graveyard Seamounts
- Havre Seamount
- Healy Volcano
- Lord Howe Seamount Chain
- Monowai Seamount
- Rumble III Seamount
- Rumble IV Seamount
- Rumble V Seamount
- South Kermadec Ridge Seamounts
- Tangaroa Seamount
- Tasmantid Seamount Chain
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