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The TaskForceMajella (TFM) is an industry funded geoscientific research project conducted between the years 1998 and 2005. The project involved numerous universities distributed worldwide, and was sponsored by a number of international major oil companies. The area of research was the Majella Mountain in Central Italy, regarded as an analogue of a faulted and fractured hydrocarbon reservoir as can be found in major provinces like the Middle East, Caspian Basin, Mediterranean Basin, and other areas. The scope was to obtain knowledge on the relation between fracture and fault generation, and all types of geological aspects of the evolution of the geological structure .〔Sometimes the TFM is confused with a project of petroleum exploration in a selected area. This is based on a misunderstanding and wishfull thinking. No initiative of this kind has ever been conducted by the involved energy companies. The area of the Majella Mountain shows no exploration potential whatsoever and is, in that sense, not interesting at all. The area was selected for scientific reasons in order to study the Mountain as an example of an uplifted reservoir which due to its uplift never became a real reservoir, not as a potential reservoir itself. In the surrounding areas similar small analogue subsurface structures were drilled and have produced moderate amounts of hydrocarbons.〕 ==Introduction== The scope and mission of the Project TaskForceMajella (TFM) is to construct a model of the Montagna della Majella anticline structure as an analogue of a faulted and fractured carbonate reservoir similar to those in production and explored by the sponsors of the Project, Eni and Norsk Hydro (now merged into StaoilHydro) (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Libya, Canada, Caspian Sea area, etc.). The aim is to provide a predictive tool for the exploration and production of these prospects and reservoirs, which are characterized by the fact that their production is for a considerable amount controlled by the presence of fractures and faults. The Montagna della Majella is a mountain massif in the Apennines, in Abruzzo, central Italy, at the boundary between the provinces of Chieti, Pescara and L'Aquila. It is part of the Central Apennines Mountain range, and consists mainly of carbonate rocks showing a complete sedimentary sequence of Upper Jurassic up till Middle Pliocene of Age , , , , , ,〔http://www.apat.gov.it/Media/carta_geologica_italia/tavoletta.asp?foglio=147〕 , , , , . The TFM Project comprises a study of all geological aspects of the Montagna della Majella and aims at reconstructing a complete model of its geological evolution using both previous and newly collected data, and applying the latest technologies. The Project which can be considered as the largest of this kind ever conducted, comprises numerous Research Institutes and Universities distributed in Italy and other European countries and the United States, with a working team composed of over 100 collaborators such as technical personnel, University Professors and Research Assistants and students. The structure and technical details which define the Project were described in a Work Plan which was written in order to define the work schedule, technical specifications, responsibilities and financial specifications and was freely distributed amongst potential project partners . A general geological description can be found in the official but not freely available Eni Majella Field Guide , and in the Official Field Guide of Central Italy of the Italian Geological Society . 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「TaskForceMajella」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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