Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
Authors: D. Kingsley, E. Streitberg
Date Published: August 2013
Number of Pages: 13
Abstract:
Although evidence for a major gas resource in the onshore Canning Basin was present in wells drilled as early as the 1960s, the opportunity to develop these resources was not recognised until increasing oil and domestic gas prices stimulated a resurgence in Canning Basin exploration in 2006. Since then exploration has been focussed on the Early Carboniferous Laurel Formation within the Fitzroy Trough, with the initial four wells encountering up to 1500 m of continuous mud gas shows. However the significance of these shows was not recognised until 2011 when Basin-Centred Gas System (BCGS) concepts were introduced to the basin in response to the ‘shale gas revolution’ that had occurred in North America over the previous decade.