Technical Bulletin Vol. 6

I. Marine geophysical surveys in the northern part of the Yellow Sea II. A foraminiferal study of the bottom sediments off the southeastern coast of Korea III. Distribution of planktonic foraminifers in the surface sediments of Taiwan Strait IV. Sediments of Taiwan Strait and the southern part of the Taiwan Basin V. Mineralogy and geochemistry of shelf sediments of the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait VI. Structure and stratigraphy of the China Basin VII. Aeromagnetic survey of the Palawan-Sulu offshore area of the Philippines VIII. Preliminary report on reconnaissance of heavy mineral sands in southern Viet-Nam with the appendix, “A semi-quantitative mineralogical study of beach sand samples from the vicinity of Hue, Republic of Viet-Nam” IX. Seismic investigations on the northern part of the Sunda Shelf south and east of Great Natuna Island X. Geological structure and some waler characteristics of the Java Sea and adjacent continental shelf XI. Explanatory note to accompany the map. “Tertiary basins of eastern Asia and their offshore extensions (Revised. April 1971)

Exploring the frontiers of undersea wealth

The mineral wealth below the seas is beginning to be scratched. Oil is the most important mineral being exploited -offshore wells now produce about 18 per cent of the world’s petroleum supplies. Oil resources under the sea are probably equal to and may surpass proven reserves on land. Exploration is revealing further promising mineral resources: heavy minerals (such as alluvial tin, gold, diamonds), coal, phosphorite, manganese nodules (containing nickel, copper, cobalt). To probe the submarine wealth of eastern Asia, nine countries have joined forces in the .Committee for Co-ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP), to which the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been giving support. The nine membres of CCOP are Indonesia, Japan, the Khmer Republic, Malaysia, Philippines, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Viet-Nam, Singapore, and Thailand. As an industrially advanced country, Japan hasthe special status ofdonor to CCOP, rather thanks, a recipient of aid. The main task of CCOP is to explore the undersea geology of the east and southeast Asian perimeter and its archipelagoes, and to help prepare the way for commercial exploitation of mineral wealth.United Nations Development Programme (UNDP

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Session, 24 October - 3 November 1989, Bangkok, Thailand : part 1: report of the Committee

The twenty-sixth session of the Committee for Coordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP) and the twenty-fifth session of its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) were held at the Royal River Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, from 24 October to 3 November 1989. The fourteenth CCOP Steering Committee meeting was held in two separate sessions, namely meeting "A" on 24-25 October and meeting "B" on 1 and 3 November. Other meetings held in conjunction with the CCOP annual session were the Tripartite Review of Project RAS/86/138 "Technical Support for Regional Offshore Prospecting in East Asia" by CCOP member governments, ESCAP and UNDP on 31 October, the fifteenth session of the Joint CCOP-IOC Working Group on Post IDOE Studies in East Asian Tectonics and Resources (SEATAR) on 30 October, the first meeting of CCOP and the Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources (CPC) on 30 October and the Special Advisers meeting on 31 October. I. Attendance and organization II. General review of progress since the twenty-fifth session of the Committee Annexes: I. List of Participants II. Inaugural Address and Keynote Speeches Delivered at the Opening Ceremony of the 26th CCOP III. Annual Session: Report of the 14th CCOP Steering Committee Meeting IV. Report of the 25th Session of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of CCOP V. Report of the Special Advisers to the 26th Session of CCOP VI. Report of the 15th Session of the Joint CCOP-IOC Working Group on Post-IDOE Studies in East Asian Tectonics and Resources (SEATAR) VII. Report of the First Joint CCOP-CPC Meeting VIII. CCOP Financial Report IX. List of DOcument

Report of the Committee for Co-Ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP) on its Seventeenth Session

Held at Bangkok Thailand 4 to 17 November 1980.Progress reports on special regional projects and regional institutions (Item 7 of the Provisional Agenda)The seventeenth session of the Committee for Co-ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP), which is the governing body of the UNDP assisted Project on Regional Offshore Prospecting in East Asia (hereafter referred to as &ldquo;the Project&rdquo;), was held at Bangkok, Thailand from 4 to 17 November 1980. In conjunction with that session, the sixteenth session of CCOP&rsquo;s Technical Advisory Group was held from 4-8 November.</p

Technical Bulletin Vol. 7

Supported by the United Nations Development ProgrammeI. Regional gravity survey of Luzon Island, Philippines. By Bureau of Mines, the Philip pines, page 1, 2 maps II. Geological structure and some water characteristics of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. By K. O. Emery, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Thomas W. C. Hilde, Kazuo Kobayashi, Ja Hak Koo, C. Y. Meng, Hiroshi Niino, J. H. Osterhagen, L. M. Reynolds, John M. Wageman, C. S. Wang, and Sung Jin Yang, pages 3-43, 17 figures III. Reports on the seismic refraction survey on land in the western part of Taiwan, Republic of China. By K. Sato, C. Y. Meng, J. Suyama, S. Kurihara, S, Kamata, H. Obayashi. E. — Inoue, and P. T. Hsiao, pages 45-58, 5 figures, 3 tables IV. New developments concerning the high sensitivity CSF magnetometer. By G. Royer, pages 59-77, 13 figures V. Distribution pattern of sediments on the continental shelves of western Indonesia. By K. O. Emery, pages 79-82, 1 map VI. Note on the geology of the Republic of Singapore. By M. Mainguy, pages 83-85, 2 figures VII. Development and status of paleontological research in the Philippines. By Benjamin A Gonzales, pages 87-95, 1 table VIII. A petrographic study of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic rock formation in the Tungliang well TL-1 of the Penghu Islands, Taiwan, China. By J. T. Chou, pages 97-115, 22 figures, 3 tables IX. IX. Outline of exploration for offshore extension of coal fields in Japan. By Shigemoto Tokunaga, pages 117-122, 1 figure, 5 tabl

Technical Bulletin Vol. 8

Supported by the United Nations Development ProgrammeI. Regional gravity survey of Luzon Island, Philippines. By Bureau of Mines, the Philip pines, page 1, 2 maps II. Geological structure and some water characteristics of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea. By K. O. Emery, Yoshikazu Hayashi, Thomas W. C. Hilde, Kazuo Kobayashi, Ja Hak Koo, C. Y. Meng, Hiroshi Niino, J. H. Osterhagen, L. M. Reynolds, John M. Wageman, C. S. Wang, and Sung Jin Yang, pages 3-43, 17 figures III. Reports on the seismic refraction survey on land in the western part of Taiwan, Republic of China. By K. Sato, C. Y. Meng, J. Suyama, S. Kurihara, S, Kamata, H. Obayashi. E. — Inoue, and P. T. Hsiao, pages 45-58, 5 figures, 3 tables IV. New developments concerning the high sensitivity CSF magnetometer. By G. Royer, pages 59-77, 13 figures V. Distribution pattern of sediments on the continental shelves of western Indonesia. By K. O. Emery, pages 79-82, 1 map VI. Note on the geology of the Republic of Singapore. By M. Mainguy, pages 83-85, 2 figures VII. Development and status of paleontological research in the Philippines. By Benjamin A Gonzales, pages 87-95, 1 table VIII. A petrographic study of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic rock formation in the Tungliang well TL-1 of the Penghu Islands, Taiwan, China. By J. T. Chou, pages 97-115, 22 figures, 3 tables IX. IX. Outline of exploration for offshore extension of coal fields in Japan. By Shigemoto Tokunaga, pages 117-122, 1 figure, 5 tabl

Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Session, 5-13 December 1988, Baguio City, the Philippines : part 1: report of the Committee

The twenty-fifth session of the Committee for Co-ordination of Joint Prospecting for Mineral Resources in Asian Offshore Areas (CCOP) and twenty-fourth session of its Technical Advisory Group (TAG) were held in Baguio City, the Philippines, from 5 to 13 December 1988. The twelfth CCOP Steering Committee meeting was held before and during the course of the annual session on the 4th, 7th, 8th, and 9th of December

Technical Bulletin Vol. 17

This volume contains four papers, a paper on the theoretical consideration of the tectonic development of the Philippine Islands, a detailed account of the geology of an area considered to have high petroleum potential in Papua New Guinea, a theoretical simulation of the formation of deep-seated potential oil reservoirs in an oil producing area of Japan, and a comprehensive review of the distribution, formation and use of the marine sand and gravel in the continental shelf areas of Japan.Several papers have been published on the geology of the Philippine Archipelago in the past volumes of the CCOP Technical Bulletin, the paper by Suzuki and Alcantara in this volume, however, is a consideration of the tectonic development of the islands from the analysis of the large faults and earthquakes which would contribute to the understanding of the geology of this area from a different approach. It has been known that there are. significant potential of petroleum occurrence in Papua New Guinea, and the paper by Francis et al., in this volume will present a revised view of the geology and the nature of the oil potential which would be very informative and useful to those interested in the petroleum of island arc environment. The paper by Kodama et al., reports an entirely new approach to the evaluation of petroleum reservoirs by mathematical simulation of tectonic development. This simulation method should be applicable to studies of deep zones for various purposes and the paper is believed to be worth study by geoscientists interested in structural geology, tectonic development and related fields. The offshore sand and gravel are becoming increasingly important in many parts of the world and the paper by Arita et al., is one of the few papers which deals with the material exhaustively. Although the area is limited to the continental shelf around Japan, it is expected that it would be useful for sedimentological studies as well as sand and gravel exploration in other parts of the world.Supported by the United Nations Development ProgrammeForeword .................................................................................................................. i Note by the Editor ................................................................................................ ii I. On the deep structure and mechanism of formation of the Philippine archipelago deduced from the fault plane solution.................................................. ............................................................Y. Suzuki and Panclasio M. Alcantara 1 II. Neogene stratigraphy, structure and petroleum potential of the Yule Island- Delena region Papua New Guinea...................................................................... .........................................G. Francis, R. Rogerson, D. W. Haig and J. Sari 13 III. Structural analysis of deep-seated volcanic rock reservoirs by tectonic simulation ........................................K. Kodama, Long Xue-ming and Y. Suzuki 61 IV. Exploration and exploitation of offshore sand in Japan................................. .........M. Arita, I. Morimoto, A. Mizuno, Y. Kinoshita and K. Ikehara 8

Technical Bulletin Vol. 12

Supported by the United Nations Development Programm

Technical Bulletin Vol. 18

This eighteenth volume of the CCOP Technical Bulletin is different from other volumes published in the past. It contains only one paper; a comprehensive treatise on the Permian geology of Southeast Asia by Henri Fontaine. This follows the study of the Jurassic geology of Southeast Asia by the same author which was published in the sixteenth volume and very highly regarded by in the geoscientists interested in the field. This work of reviewing the Permian geology, palaeontology, geochemistry, geographic evolution and mineral resources of this very large area is providing us not only with the present state of the geosciences of the region, but also with many insights for guiding future scientific study in this field.Supported by the United Nations Development ProgrammeChapter I. Palaeontology Chapter II. Stratigraphy Chapter III. Geochemistry Chapter V. Palaeogeographic evolution Chapter VI. Mineral resources Chapter VIL Bibliograph