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The God’s Must Be Crazy – Unbelievable Play Defining Discoveries Providing Analogues for Future Success
- Publication Name: PESA Webinar Series
- Authors: Mark Lisk (Ascendience Geoscience)
- Date Published: February 2025
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Geological analogues provide critical information to benchmark predictions across full cycle exploration and development projects. They seed ideas to recognise new plays and prospect opportunities to deliver the next cycle of discoveries. Since 2000 ...
Sediment Provenance Analysis of the Early Permian Reservoirs of the Perth Basin
- Publication Name: PESA Webinar Series
- Authors: Stuart Munday (Chemostrat)
- Date Published: October 2024
Abstract:
The sediment provenance of Early Permian reservoirs (‘Kingia’ and High Cliff sandstones) of the onshore North Perth Basin is poorly understood. Bulk rock inorganic geochemistry, detrital zircon geochronology and heavy mineral data have been used ...
Play analysis in the Pedirka Basin-Poolowanna-Trough region
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Paul C. Strong
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Pedirka Basin-Poolowanna Trough region in central Australia covers over 100,000 km2, just over half of which is in South Australia and most of the remainder in the Northern Territory. Petroleum exploration commenced in the 1950s when licences cov...
A Multidisciplinary Resource Assessment of the Adavale Basin: Part 2 Groundwater Resources
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: S. Hostetler, C. Gouramanis, D. Ferdinando, C. Wainman, M. Orr, D. Jorgensen, M. Boum, M. Woods, S.R.B. McAlpine
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Australian Government’s Trusted Environmental and Geological Information (TEGI) program is a scientific study led by Geoscience Australia. Geoscience Australia is collaborating with CSIRO to deliver regional geological and environmental assessm...
New insights into the stratigraphy, structure and architecture of the Amadeus Basin
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Charles Verdel, Nigel Donnellan, Anett Weisheit, Christine Edgoose
- Date Published: August 2024
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Projects conducted by the Northern Territory Geological Survey over the last several years have been aimed at improved understanding of the stratigraphy, structure and architecture of the Northern Territory portion of the Amadeus Basin. Of particular...
Post-drill analysis to assess the prospectivity and geological risks for energy resources in the Pedirka, Simpson and western Eromanga basins
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: J. Iwanec,, B.E. Bradshaw, T. Bernecker, A. Doig, D. Ferdinando, A. Jarrett, P. Strong, Z. Yarmohammadtooksi
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Permian Pedirka, the Triassic Simpson and the Jurassic–Cretaceous western Eromanga basins in central Australia have undergone a sporadic exploration history which commenced in the 1950s. Exploration drilling initially focused on conventional hy...
A geological framework to support play-based resource assessments in the Pedirka and Simpson basins
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Barry E. Bradshaw, Jeremy Iwanec, Anita Doig, Paul C. Strong, Tom Bernecker
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Permian and Triassic Pedirka and Simpson basins in central Australia have proven petroleum potential with a non-commercial oil discovery in the Poolowanna Trough and several wells showing evidence for residual oil columns. However, these basins r...
Reassessing stromatolite biostratigraphy in the East Tennant region, Northern Territory: Implications for regional mineral prospectivity
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Amber J.M. Jarrett, Heidi J. Allen, Timothy J. Munson, Andy D. Clark, Anthony Schofield
- Date Published: August 2024
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The East Tennant region in the Northern Territory is a mineral systems exploration fairway situated between Tennant Creek in the west and the Murphy Province in the east. Intersected stratigraphy in the East Tennant drillhole CRA DD79 AL2 has been va...
The Hydrogen Economy: Can it be based on Mineral (Natural) Hydrogen?
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: M.C. Clarke
- Date Published: August 2024
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The world has been eagerly seeking to have hydrogen as the principal energy carrier and energy source. Government leaders, world identities and gradually the general populace have come to the consensus that something must be done to rein in real (or ...
Facies Analysis of Regressive-Transgressive Deltaic Cycles from the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group, Greater McArthur Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: H.D. Johnson, D.R. Johns, S. Menpes, M. Sheridan, K.L. Bann
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Velkerri-Moroak (V-M) sequence typifies one of several single large-scale (up to ca. 2000 m thick), mudstone-dominated regressive clastic coastal to fluvio-deltaic cycles in the Mesoproterozoic Roper Group (Greater McArthur Basin). A sedimentolog...
The Hunt for Residual Oil Zones in Central Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: M. Ben Clennell, Richard Kempton, Paul Strong, Martin Kennedy, Eric Tenthorey, Aleksandra Kalinowski, Claire Patterson
- Date Published: August 2024
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Residual oil zones (ROZs) are zones of oil at residual saturation below identified oil–water contacts that are typically immovable and not included in normal reserve calculations. Where reservoir conditions are suitable for miscible displacement, R...
New geomechanical and petrophysical data from NDI Carrara 1; implications for Carrara Sub-basin unconventional prospectivity
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Bailey, AHE, Wang, L, Grosjean, E, Carson, CJ, Butcher, GA, Jarrett, AJM, Henson, PA
- Date Published: August 2024
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NDI Carrara 1 is the first stratigraphic test of the Carrara Sub-basin, a newly discovered depocentre in the South Nicholson region that was identified on newly acquired seismic surveys undertaken as part of the Exploring for the Future program. NDI ...
An Improved Depositional Model for the Organic Rich Shales of the Amungee Member of the Velkerri Formation in the Beetaloo Sub-basin, Northern Territory, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: David Close, Andrew Wilson
- Date Published: August 2024
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The geology of the Beetaloo Sub-basin, a component part of the thick and geographically extensive greater McArthur Basin, remains relatively poorly described due to limited outcrop, seismic data and well penetrations. Since around 2010, however, ther...
CABS IV Special Publication Volume 2
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
Volume 2 of the full papers presented at the 2022 Central Australian Basins Symposium IV (a PESA Special Publication)....
The importance of understanding basement and structural inheritance: insights on basin evolution in the greater McArthur and South Nicholson region
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Karen Connors, Jane Blevin, Lynn Pryer
- Date Published: August 2024
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Structural inheritance has played a key role in the long evolution of the Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic basins of the McArthur and South Nicholson region. As a result, a reliable geological model of the nature of basement and variations in its rheology a...
New insights to the stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the Pedirka Basin in the Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Anita Doig, Amber J. M. Jarrett, Charles Verdel
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Permian to Triassic aged Pedirka Basin in the Northern Territory has been a focus of a multidisciplinary precompetitive geoscience study that aims to understand the lithology, stratigraphy and petroleum potential of the region as part of the Reso...
A Multidisciplinary Resource Assessment of the Adavale Basin: Part 1 Conventional and Unconventional Resources
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: D. Ferdinando, C. Wainman, D. Jorgensen, M. Orr, S. Hostetler, C. Gouramanis, M. Bouma, S.R.B. McAlpine
- Date Published: August 2024
Abstract:
The Adavale Basin underlies the Galilee, Eromanga and Lake Eyre basins in central Queensland and has a sedimentary record spanning the Early Devonian to Late Devonian/Early Carboniferous. A range of depositional environments existed across the Adaval...
Regional chemostratigraphic framework of the Neoproterozoic and Middle Ordovician mega-sequences of the Officer Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: David A. Riley, Tim J. Pearce, Stuart Munday, Dianne S. Edwards, Alex Fuerst, Liuqi Wang
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Neoproterozoic to Middle Ordovician sedimentary rocks of the Officer Basin, Australia, are difficult to correlate, in part because biostratigraphic studies of acritarchs and stromatolites are localised, stable isotope studies are rare, and seismi...
A new view of the evolution of the Beetaloo Sub-basin and its surrounds
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Daniela Garrad
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Beetaloo Sub-basin is a major Proterozoic depocentre in the central region of the informally named greater McArthur Basin in the Northern Territory, Australia. Paleoproterozoic Glyde package sediments of the greater McArthur Basin are present to ...
Revised Jurassic and Cretaceous stratigraphic correlations across the Great Artesian Basin: Improving hydrogeological conceptualisations
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: Nadege Rollet, John Vizy, Catherine Norton, Carey Hannaford, Andrew McPherson, Kok Piang Tan, Luke Wallace
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Great Artesian Basin (GAB) is the largest groundwater basin in Australia, underlying approximately one fifth of the continent, including parts of Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the Northern Territory. The GAB consists of four hy...
The Murraba Basin revisited – interpretations refined by detrital zircon data
- Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium IV
- Authors: PW Haines, H.J. Allen, MTD Wingate, LS Normore, Y. Lu, IOH Fielding
- Date Published: August 2024
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The Murraba Basin is a poorly known component of the Centralian Superbasin that extends across the Western Australia – Northern Territory border. An earlier reconnaissance reinterpretation by some of the authors significantly changed the inferred a...
Seismic Snapshots – Second Quarter 2024 – PESA News Issue 173
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: May 2024
Abstract:
Seismic Snapshots - PESA News Issue 173
- CGG Changes Name to Viridien
- CGG Launches AI Cloud Solution Powered by NVIDIA for Optimized AI and HPC Workloads
- CGG Launches Two New 3D Reimaging Projects Near Côte d...
Carbon Wanted: UQ turns CO₂ into sustainable power
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: May 2024
Abstract:
University of Queensland researchers have built a generator that absorbs carbon dioxide (CO₂) to make electricity. Dr Zhuyuan Wang from UQ’s Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation says the small, proof of concept nanogenerator is carbo...
Shell is again world’s most valuable oil & gas brand with QatarEnergy in its slipstream
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: May 2024
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Shell has again come out on top as the most valuable oil & gas brand in the world for 2023, with second placed QatarEnergy’s brand value soaring 82% and a global LNG surge....
Can Australian LNG Producers fill the coming void left by sanctions beginning to bite into Russian LNG exports
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: May 2024
Abstract:
With exploration running on fumes, Australia’s once vibrant and powerful oil & gas sector was beginning to look like a sunset industry until two unexpected events in recent months conspired to put a sudden spring in the step of hydrocarbon hunters....
Records Tumble in the Beetaloo as Empire Energy Recalibrates for New Shale Gas Targets
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger
- Date Published: May 2024
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ASX-listed Empire Energy has hit definitive targets aimed at replicating the shale revolution of prolific regions of the United States in Australia’s most exciting emerging hydrocarbon basin – the Beetaloo Sub-basin....
Tech Talk: Global Gas Outlook 2050
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: May 2024
Abstract:
Those of a pessimistic persuasion could see 2050 looming just over the horizon as a doomsday clock kind of countdown, while the more romantically inclined among us might regard these numbers as a Cinderella fairytale ticking towards the midnight hour...
Tech Talk: South Australian Petroleum Review, April 2024
- Publication Name: PESA News
- Authors: Dale Granger (ed.)
- Date Published: May 2024
Abstract:
The South Australian Department for Energy and Mining (DEM) manages the State’s petroleum resources as the lead agency facilitating ecologically sustainable energy resource exploration and production. Its operations cover investment attraction thro...
Geophysical Monitoring – What’s Different About CCS?
- Publication Name: PESA/CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series
- Authors: James Gunning (CSIRO)
- Date Published: April 2024
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Monitoring of CO2 movement is a vital part of project execution, stakeholder engagement, and social licence to operate in CCUS projects. Monitoring obligations are challenging because the injected fluid is of negligible commercial value compared to h...
Monitoring and Verification – What’s Different About CCS?
- Publication Name: PESA/CSIRO CCS Knowledge Transfer Series
- Authors: Charles Jenkins (CSIRO)
- Date Published: April 2024
Abstract:
Monitoring and verification is one of the most distinctive aspects of CCS, but it is also one where there can be confusion about the nature and purpose of the activity. Any technical project will have methods for “monitoring and verifying”, but t...