The Taq Taq Field is located within an anticline in the gently folded zone of the Zagros mountains, northeastern Iraq, approximately 50 km ESE of Erbil. The main reservoirs are fractured limestones and dolomites of Late Cretaceous age, with an oil column exceeding 500 m in thickness. Eocene limestones and dolomites at shallow depth form a subsidiary reservoir. The structure is a gentle thrust-related fold which has also been affected by dextral transpression. A pervasive fracture system is present within the reservoirs, giving good connectivity and deliverability. Initial discovery and appraisal was made in 1978 when three wells were drilled. The recent appraisal programme started in 2005 and by the end of 2008 two seismic surveys had been acquired and eight additional wells had been drilled. Mapping has incorporated a seismic principal component analysis for horizon and lithology identification. Modelling of the fractures has utilized a comprehensive data set derived from core and image logs. Special core analysis has been directed towards the understanding of the pore system and its interaction with the fractures. Synthesis of all these elements is performed in a dual-media dynamic model which is currently in use for development planning.

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Thanks are of course also due to each of the contributors to the book for their considerable investments of time, energy, and expertise, as well as the many friends and colleagues who provided both formal and informal review and editorial advice, and to those who additionally contributed papers, workshops, installations, and performances for the Noise In And As Music Symposium held at the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM), University of Huddersfield, October 4-6, 2013. Eryck Abecassis is a Paris-based musician active as a composer of instrumental and electronic music, noise, and opera, and as a performer of electric bass/guitar, modular synthesizer, and laptop. His work can be heard in streets, landscapes, and urban architecture through concerts and installations worldwide.

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