PESA SA/NT May Luncheon
Thursday, 22 May @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm (Australia/Adelaide time)
$25.00 – $75.00
Guest Speaker(s): Tim Rady and Rob Kirk
Tim Rady
Managing Director, Geomorph Energy, GME Commodities
Tim is a geophysicist with 19 years’ experience in the oil & gas industry, specialising in seismic interpretation, play analysis, prospect maturation and opportunity evaluation. He has worked for Santos, Premier Oil and TotalEnergies on a broad range of new ventures, exploration and development projects across the globe. Tim currently consults to the energy industry and is the Chief Geoscientist for entX Limited’s underground hydrogen storage projects in the Polda Basin. Tim holds a BSc (Hons) in Petroleum Geophysics from the Australian School of Petroleum and an MBA from the London Business School.
Rob Kirk is a consultant living in Yankalilla. He graduated from the University of Adelaide (BSc Hons) and the University of WA (MSc) combining geology with geophysics. He has four decades of industry experience in seismic and sequence stratigraphy having worked with SA Oil and Gas, Occidental, BHP, and Woodside living in Adelaide, Melbourne, Perth, London, Bogota, Colombia and Bakersfield, California, with the remainder consulting from Tasmania and South Australia. He has worked some 40 basins worldwide and has given public and inhouse industry courses on seismic stratigraphy for 30 years. Rob jointly won the 1991 AAPG Best Paper Award, was 1993 and 2014 PESA Distinguished Lecturer, 1994 Keynote Speaker at GCSSEPM, Houston and has had regular articles in the PESA Journal. He is a member of PESA and the AAPG. Rob specializes in seismic stratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy.
PESA SA/NT May Luncheon
Prospectivity of the Daralingie Shelf area of the Warburton Basin, SA
Tim Rady (Geomorph Energy) and Rob Kirk (Consultant)
Abstract:
To further highlight the prospectivity of the Warburton Basin, the South Australian Department for Energy and Mining (SADEM) has undertaken a whole of basin project integrating regional seismic interpretations (using the 2D Cube), previous geological understanding, well and standardized core interpretations. The May 2025 PESA lunch will be the first public release of the main outcomes from this project.
The Cambrian eastern Warburton Basin underlies the bulk of the hydrocarbon-producing Permian Cooper Basin in South Australia. The Warburton, like the Cooper Basin, is hydrocarbon bearing with a significant catalogue of hydrocarbon shows recorded from a wide variety of lithologies and stratigraphic intervals. Therefore, understanding the stratigraphic context of hydrocarbon occurrences is critical to unlocking this basin’s prospectivity. It is in this context that two integrated seismic-based interpretations were undertaken in this project and are the focus of PESA’s May 2025 lunch time lecture.
The initial seismic interpretation, by R. Kirk, looked at the whole eastern Warburton Basin with the results providing the stratigraphic and gross depositional environment (GDE) concepts that underpin the entire project. From this work a new stratigraphic sub-division of the Warburton Basin has been developed (Kirk et al 2025). Subsequently, the second seismic study was undertaken (by T. Rady) building upon the seismic sequence stratigraphic framework developed by Kirk et al (2025) by combining seismic attributes, structural and seismic facies mapping and core descriptions to develop GDE and updated reservoir distribution maps for the uppermost section, termed ‘400-1000’. This work has provided new insights into the basin stratigraphy, evolution and prospectivity for hydrocarbons (Rady et al 2025).
Event Details:
Thursday 22nd May 2025
The May luncheon is a week earlier than usual due to the AEP conference during the last week of May
Luncheon: 12 pm for a 12:30 pm start
Place: Ayer’s House, 288 North Tce, Adelaide
The luncheon will consist of 2 courses and drinks
Bookings close 5 pm Monday, 19th May 2025
Any late bookings will incur an additional $20 fee. Strictly no walk-ins.
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