Present-Day Crustal Stresses of NW Borneo: Neotectonics of an Active Collisional Margin

该项目的主要好处是利用一个拥有无与伦比的油气勘探数据库的地区，促进对大陆碰撞和山区带早期演变的理解。该项目将提高对澳大利亚北方碰撞边缘和那里的石油勘探的认识，那里的石油勘探不如婆罗洲先进。该项目具有重大的附带效益。它将加强澳大利亚、文莱、马来西亚和德国之间的国际联系。它将为将在文莱和卡尔斯鲁厄大学以及壳牌文莱和壳牌马来西亚度过时间的RA和博士提供高质量的研究培训。最后，该项目将提高东南亚合同研究的机构能力。

The key project benefit is to advance understanding of continental collision and the early evolution of mountain belts using a region with an unrivalled database from hydrocarbon exploration. The project will improve understanding of Australia's northern, collisional margins and petroleum exploration there, which is less advanced than in Borneo. The project has major ancillary benefits. It will strengthen international links between Australia, Brunei, Malaysia and Germany. It will provide high quality research training for the RA and PhDs whom will spend time at the Universities of Brunei and Karlsruhe and at Shell Brunei and Shell Malaysia. Finally the project will increase the institutional capacity for contract research in SE Asia.