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Shale oil has become a popular topic for global unconventional oil and gas research in the petroleum industry. Recent exploration efforts have indicated that laminar carbonates are closely related to the favorable depositional strata of lacustrine sh...

The Warrawoona Gold Project is located 25 kilometres southeast of Marble Bar in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia. Key prospects include the Klondyke deposit, which forms the main share of the 1.25 Moz gold resource owned by Calidus Resour...

Land seismic data is known to be far noisier than its marine equivalent – the questions we want to begin to address are why and is there anything that can be done about it? Noise issues with land data are often just explained by ‘poor coupling’...

Geoscience Australia has undertaken a series of integrated studies to map the footprint of mineral systems at multiple scales. We have used long-period data from the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP) to resolve la...

Recent technology improvements allow gaining a digital 3D replica of natural rock using fast and non-destructive tomographic techniques. Combining core-scale images from medical X-Ray with micron resolution images from micro CT scanners, natural rock...

Since 1976, Geoscience Australia has produced grids of gravity anomalies to support geological mapping and exploration applications across Australia. The five editions of the national grids up to 2016 have been based on ground gravity observations, s...

A new method for building a model of the rock property distribution on an unconformity surface (Pratt et al., 2019) presents new opportunities for greenfield exploration in complex geological environments. The method uses the inherent 3D information ...

Hydraulic vibrators are the preferred source for land seismic surveys. The energy from the vibrator’s signal (commonly referred to as a sweep) is transmitted into the ground via a baseplate that is coupled to the surface by loading it with the weig...

In 2019, the first ever Seismic While Drilling (SWD) dataset recorded by Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) fibre optic cable was acquired at the Otway Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) site. After analysing the recorded signal, a new technique named ...

The interest on Induced Polarization in AEM data (AIP) has significantly increased in recent years, both within the research community and in the industry. However, the inversion of AIP data is particularly ill-posed, especially when spectral modelli...

Direct petrophysical measurements, such as density and magnetic susceptibility, may prove useful in improving the interpretability of geophysical models. With measurements becoming more abundant and the capability to measure petrophysical properties ...