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Revised Stratigraphy of the Sherbrook Group, Otway Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: A.D. Partridge
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Upper Cretaceous sediments were first discovered along the Southern Margin of Australia in the Otway Basin during the 1950' s, and the principal formations assigned to the Sherbrook Group were first described from early petroleum exploration wells in...
Geology and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Maryborough Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: P. Lipski
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Maryborough Basin is a mainly Mesozoic basin that straddles the coastline of southeastern Queensland. The sequence ranges in age from Late Triassic to Early Tertiary. Sequences generally can be correlated across the Surat and Eromanga basins to t...
Anomalous Tectonic Subsidence of the Southern Australian Passive Margin: Response to Cretaceous Dynamic Topography or Differential Lithospheric Stretching?
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: B.J. Brown, R.D. M?ller and H.I.M. Struckmeyer
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The southern Australian margin is unique as it is the only known passive margin that formed over and orthogonal to a Mesozoic subducted slab in the mantle. The tectonic subsidence pattern observed along the southern Australian margin primarily reflec...
Down and Out in Gippsland: Using Potential Fields to Look Deeper and Wider for New Hydrocarbons
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: D.H. Moore and D. Wong
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Although aeromagnetic interpretations are not usual aids in detailed assessments of hydrocarbon provinces, they can provide insights into the deep structures that often control the distribution of hydrocarbons within
the basin fill. This paper summar...
Can Amplitude Versus Offset Detect Gas in the Shipwreck Trough?
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: M. Lennane, R. Weeden and J. Cant
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Shipwreck Trough (Figure 1) in the Victorian offshore Otway Basin is the southern extension of the onshore Port Campbell Embayment and the fairway for the gas fields occurring in the Late Cretaceous Waarre Formation. The Waarre Formation reservoi...
Cook Strait, New Zealand – A New Frontier Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: G.R. Holdgate and R. Shaw
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Cook Strait lies between the North and South Islands of New Zealand. Understanding the basin geology beneath Cook Strait has been hampered by a lack of modern seismic, as all existing petroleum seismic was shot before 1974. In 1998 NIWA obtained over...
Cenozoic Submarine Canyon Systems in Cool Water Carbonates from the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: A.S. Leach and M.W. Wallace
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Well preserved submarine canyon systems are present in the Oligocene-Miocene cool water carbonates of the Heytesbury Group and the Pliocene-Recent Whalers Bluff Formation of the offshore Otway Basin. From seismic profiles, two morphologically distinc...
A New Palaeogeographic Synthesis for the Bowen, Gunnedah and Sydney Basins of Eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: C.R. Fielding, R. Sliwa, R.J. Holcombe and A.T. Jones
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
This paper presents a series of palaeogeographic maps to illustrate the geological history of the Bowen-Gunnedah-Sydney Basin System (BGSBS) through Permian and Lower/Middle Triassic times. The maps are based on a lithostratigraphic framework that co...
Analogue Modelling of Extensional Fault Architectures: Comparisons with Natural Rift Fault Systems
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: K.R. McClay, T. Dooley, R. Gloaguen, P. Whitehouse and S. Khalil
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
This paper reviews the 4D development of extensional fault systems in analogue models of rift basins. In orthogonal and oblique analogue models stretching above a zone of ductile deformation at the base of the model produced initially segmented rift ...
Sedimentary Basins and Structural Framework of the South Tasman Rise and East Tasman Plateau
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: P.J. Hill, A.M.G. Moore and N.F. Exon
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The South Tasman Rise (STR) and East Tasman Plateau (ETP) are large submerged continental blocks that abut southern Tasmania and cover an area of -230,000 km2 They are separated from Tasmania by 3,000 m deep saddles underlain by transitional crust, b...
The Ceduna Sub-Basin – An Exploration Update
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: J. Bruins, I.M. Longley, J.P. Fitzpatrick, S.J. King and R.M. Somerville
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Ceduna Sub-basin comprises one of the major untested potential petroleum provinces in Australia. It is located in the Great Australian Bight with water depths ranging from 100 metres in the north to over 4,000 metres in the south (Figure 1). The...
Neogene Sedimentary Basin Evolution in Northern Papua New Guinea: A Model for Basin Evolution in Convergent Margin Settings
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: K. Liu and K.A.W. Crook
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Neogene sedimentary basins in northern Papua New Guinea are closely associated with embayments and promontories on the Australian Plate margin. Eight plate promontories and seven embayments have been identified along the collision zone from the R...
The Sedimentology and Palaeoenvironments of the Late Cretaceous Sherbrook Group in the Otway Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: G.A. Boyd and S.J. Gallagher
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The first marine incursions that flooded the Otway Basin, southern Australia, during the Late Cretaceous are preserved in the Sherbrook Group. The purpose of this preliminary study is to describe the depositional environments of the sediments of the ...
New Oil from a Mature Gas Field – The History of the Moomba Oil Discoveries
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: R. Menpes
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
In 1997, after 31 years of gas production and 89 wells, oil was discovered in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Eromanga Basin strata overlying the Moomba Gas Field in the Permian Cooper Basin. Of the 140 wells drilled in Moomba to date, 22 wells have targeted...
Origin’s Clean Energy Advantage
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: R. Lovibond
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Origin Energy Ltd (Origin) is unique in that it has an asset base of over $2.5 billion spanning the hydrocarbon based energy supply chain, from exploration and production through power generation to natural gas, LPG and electricity trading and retail...
The Structural and Tectonic Evolution of the Gippsland Basin: Results from 2D Section Balancing and 3D Structural Modelling
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: M.R. Power, K.C. Hill, N. Hoffman, T. Bernecker and M. Norvick
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Gippsland Basin has been Australia's main hydrocarbon producing province since the mid- 1960's, yet many questions remain concerning the basin's evolution. Interpretation and depth conversion of more than 4,000 km of 2D regional seismic, inclndin...
Cenozoic History of the North and East Australian Margins
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: R. Hall
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
By the Late Mesozoic the Australian continent was surrounded by passive margins. At the east Australian margin spreading began between the Tasman Sea and the Coral Sea. The character of rifting was similar to that which occurred several times during ...
Mesoscopic Fold and Thrust Structures at Cape Liptrap, Victoria, Australia – A PNG Analogue?
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: J.T. Keetley, K.C. Hill and C. Nguyen
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Early Devonian turbidites in the Lachlan Fold Belt were deformed in the Middle Devonian, resulting in superbly exposed fold and thrust structures at Cape Liptrap in Victoria, which have been cited as a possible analogue
for oil-bearing structures in ...
AFTA-Calibrated 2-D Modelling of Hydrocarbon Generation and Migration Using Temispack: Preliminary Results from the Otway Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: I.R. Duddy and B. Erout
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Commercial hydrocarbon discoveries in the Otway Basin are currently limited to the Victorian Port Campbell Embayment, both onshore and offshore and the onshore Penola Trough in South Australia. Previous AFTA -based studies have shown that the regiona...
Migration and Mixing of Oils in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Central Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: B.H. Michaelsen and D.M. McKirdy
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The aromatic hydrocarbon contents of 62 terrestrially-derived oils from the Cooper and Eromanga Basins in South Australia and Queensland have been screened using whole-oil GC-MS. An earlier study (McKirdy et a!. 1997) had revealed the existence of at...
Depositional and Rank Controls on the Petroleum Potential of Coaly Source Rocks
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: R. Sykes
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Integrated assessment of the Rock-Eval and coal chemical properties of Late Cretaceous-Tertiary coaly sediments in the Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, has revealed complex stratigraphic variations in bulk petroleum
potential and provided insights of the...
A Marine Source Rock in the Gippsland Basin?
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: J.D. Gorter
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Conventional wisdom holds that all oils recovered to date in the Gippsland Basin are derived from the thermal maturation of terrestrial organic matter deposited in lower coastal plain strata. However, condensate recovered from Anemone lilA in the sou...
New Impetus for Otway Exploration
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: J.S. Evanochko
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
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The combination of commercial opportunity and technological advancements has revitalised hydrocarbon exploration in the onshore Otway Basin. Until 1999, small field size, poor exploration success and lack of markets ensured only modest drilling activ...
Gower Basin, Lord Howe Rise
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: J.B. Willcox and J. Sayers
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Gower Basin is the principal depocentre within the 'Central Rift Zone' of the Lord Howe Rise (LHR). It lies within the Australian Exclusive Economic Zone, between Lord Howe Island and a region of planated basement ('Lord Howe Platform ') that mak...
Petroleum Potential of Deepwater Basins Around Tasmania: Insights from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 189
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: N.F. Exon, T.S. White, M.J. Malone, J.P. Kennett and P.J. Hill
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
During ODP Leg 189, the JOIDES Resolution recovered about 4,200 m of continuous core from deep sites in sedimentary basins on continental crust off Tasmania. These four sites, one off west Tasmania, two on the South Tasman Rise (STR), and one on the ...
Tectonic Evolution of Cretaceous Rift Basins in South-Eastern Australia and New Zealand: Implications for Exploration Risk Assessment
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: R. Sutherland, P. King and R. Wood
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Southeastern Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica were adjacent before Cretaceous rifting led to fragmentation of Gondwana. In many regions, rifting led to a first-order stratigraphic cycle of normal-faulted clastic terrigenous deposits, overlain b...
Applications of Ichnology to Hydrocarbon Exploration – Examples from the Permian of Eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: K.L. Bann and C.R. Fielding
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Trace fossils provide a valuable additional sedimentological criterion with which to evaluate the palaeoenvironments of ancient successions. Recent re-evaluation of the sedimentology and stratigraphy of certain Permian formations in the Sydney and Bo...
Effect of Magmatism on the Northern Taranaki Basin Petroleum System
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: V. Stagpoole, R. Funnell and D. Darby
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
Volcanic activity and the effects of magmatism have often been considered detrimental to the prospectivity of petroleum basins. In the northern Taranaki Basin, Middle to Late Miocene andesitic arc magmatism associated with the Mohakatino Volcanic Cen...
Emperor and Golden Beach Subgroups: The Onset of Late Cretaceous Sedimentation in the Gippsland Basin, SE Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: T. Bernecker and A.D. Partridge
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The Emperor and Golden Beach subgroups, new subdivisions of the lower part of the Latrobe Group in the Gippsland Basin, are interpreted as basin-wide unconformity-bounded depositional systems that record the key break-up events in the basin during it...
The Outer Limits of Australia’s Resource Jurisdiction Off Eastern Australia
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium 2001
- Authors: P.A. Symonds, R. Parums, G. Hill, B. Hirst, G. Bernardel and H. Stagg
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: November 2001
Abstract:
The outer limit of the seabed and subsoil resource regime off the eastern half of Australia - the Continental Shelf - is based on boundaries agreed with neighbouring countries in the north and northeast, and a variety of boundaries with the internati...