Publication Name: PESA News
Authors: Richard Kempton, Laurent Langhi, Yanhua Zhang, CS/RO Earth Science & Resource Engineering; Chris Nicholson, John Kennard, Nadege Rollet, George Bernardel, Geoscience Australia.
Publication Issue: 117
Date Published: April 2012
Number of Pages: 3
Abstract:
Trap integrity study addresses a key exploration risk
Geoscience Australia is currently reassessing the petroleum prospectivity of the offshore northern Perth Basin (see AusGeo News 103 and 104). Part of the reassessment was a trap integrity study, led by CSIRO in partnership with Geoscience Australia, which evaluated the potential of fault reactivation as a critical exploration risk for hydrocarbon preservation in the Abrolhos Sub-basin. This reassessment was initiated under the Australian Government's Offshore Energy Security Program, as part of Geoscience Australia's continuing efforts to identify a new offshore petroleum province.
Reprinted with permission by Geoscience Australia. This article first appeared in AusGeo News 105 (March 2012).