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Assessing maturity and the effects of diagenetic oxidation through the integration of vitrinite reflectance (VR), fluorescence alteration of multiple macerals (FAMM™) and apatite fission track thermochronology (AFTT)
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: G.T. Cooper, P.B. O'Sullivan, N. Sherwood, K.C. Hill
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
To ascertain the degree of vitrinite reflectance enhancement associated with subhydrous vitrinite, estimated maximum palaeotemperatures have been derived using three different methods: conventional v1tnmte reflectance (VR), fluorescence alteration of...
Structural Evolution and Charge History of the Exmouth Sub-basin, Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: K. Tindale, N. Newell, J. Keall and N. Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Exmouth Sub-basin forms part of the Exmouth-Barrow- Dampier intra-cratonic rift system of the Northern Carnarvon Basin. These sub-basins contain significant thicknesses of Upper Jurassic Dingo Claystone, which constitutes the principal hydrocarbo...
Continuous Oil Pools and Self-sourcing Reservoirs: International Examples and Australian Possibilities
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John Scott
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Continuous oil pools form in source rocks where kerogen has been converted to oil but has not been completely expelled. Self-sourcing reservoirs occur where a continuous oil pool is sufficiently fractured to provide permeability and allow production ...
A Structural Interpretation of the Gascoyne Platform, Southern Carnarvon Basin, WA
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Robert P. Iasky, Arthur J. Mory and Sergey I. Shevchenko
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Gascoyne Platform is a sub-basin with relatively shallow basement in the Southern Carnarvon Basin, extending for 600 km between the Northampton Complex to the south and the Exmouth Sub-basin to the north. The platform contains mainly ?Ordovician-...
Contributions to the Geology of the Wiso Basin (Middle Cambrian to Ordovician), Northern Territory
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Robert S. Nicoll, Robyn Purcell and Sally E. Phillips
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
For an almost completely unexplored basin, the Lander Trough has the 'correct address' containing source and reservoir rocks of the same age as those known in surrounding petroliferous areas, like the Amadeus and Georgina basins. The basin needs at l...
Petroleum Geology of the Peedamulah Shelf, Northern Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: A. R. Yasin and R. P. Iasky
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Five main tectonic phases are recorded as unconformities in the ?Ordovician-Tertiary succession of the Peedamullah Shelf: Lower-Middle Devonian rifting, Upper Carboniferous rift rejuvenation, Upper Jurassic breakup movements, Neocomian and Lower Midd...
Vagrant Oils: Geochemical Signposts to Unrecognised Petroleum Systems
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Roger E. Summons, Marita Bradshaw, James Crowley, Dianne S. Edwards, Simon C. George and John E. Zumberge
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Biodegraded oils and residual oil stains from wells in the Arafura, Bonaparte and Carnarvon basins have been chemically analysed and the data compared to a reference set for known petroleum systems of the western Australian margin. The biodegraded Wa...
Lower Palaeozoic Correlations and Thermal Maturity, Carnarvon Basin, WA
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Arthur J. Mory, Robert S. Nicoll and John D. Gorter
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Pre-Middle Devonian conodonts recovered from ten wells and drillholes in the Carnarvon Basin provide improved age control for, and are the basis for a revision of, the Silurian stratigraphy and depositional history in the basin: The lithologically di...
Inferring Kerogen Kinetics for Exploration in the Timor Sea Region
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: David C. Lowry
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Explorationists commonly model hydrocarbon generation from a source rock by assuming that the kerogen can be characterised as Type I, II or III, and accepting the default kinetic parameters built into modelling programs. This can lead to errors and m...
An Evaluation of the Mardie Greensand Reservoir, Thevenard Island Area, Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: D. A. Seeburger, N. W. D. Miller, G. J. Beacher, J. P. Schulz-Rojahn and J. P. Popek
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Mardie Greensand is a thin ( +1- 18 m) unit in the Thevenard Island area. Reservoirs are found almost solely in the more grain-rich glauconitic sands of Lower M. australis age. Production is from an unconventional reservoir, with overall low resi...
Aromatic Hydrocarbons as Indicators of Biodegredation in North Western Australian Reservoirs
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: S. J. Fisher, R. Alexander, R. I. Kagi and G. A. Oliver
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The weathering of condensate released into intertidal coastal sediments in north Western Australia was studied by analysing sediment samples collected on eleven occasions over a three-year period. Chemical analysis of the saturated and aromatic hydro...
The Coolcalalaya Sub-basin: A Forgotten Frontier ‘between’ the Perth and Carnarvon Basins, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Arthur J. Mory, Robert P. Iasky and Sergey I. Shevchenko
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Coolcalalaya Sub-basin is bound by the Darling Fault to the east and the Ajana-Yandi and Urella faults to the west. The only petroleum data are gravity and aeromagnetics from the 1960s and 1970s, and one seismic line shot in 1964. More than eight...
Mechanisms of Dynamic Seal Failure in the Timor Sea and Central North Sea Basins
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Richard R. Hillis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The seals to hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Timor Sea and central North Sea often fail, despite being thick shales that should not be prone to capillary leakage. It is likely that fracturing of these seals, herein termed dynamic seal failure, contribu...
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the M. australis Sandstone, Barrow and Dampier Sub-basins
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Ian A. Dyson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The M. australis Sandstone is a glauconite-rich reservoir within the Lower Cretaceous greensand succession of the Carnarvon Basin. There have been problems with stratigraphic nomenclature for the greensand succession and these may be resolved by a re...
Geochemistry of a Palaeo-oil Column, Octavius 2, Vulcan Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Simon C. George, Mark Lisk, Peter J. Eadington and Robinson A. Quezada
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Octavius 2 is a plugged and abandoned exploration well in the Vulcan Sub-basin that penetrated waterwet
sandstones of the Plover Formation. However, the abundance of oil-bearing fluid inclusions determined using the GOI? technique suggests that the s...
Dongara Oil and Gas Field, Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Grant K. Ellis and Richard H. Bruce
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Dongara oil and gas field in the onshore northern Perth Basin was discovered in 1966 by West Australian Petroleum Pty Ltd. Subsequent appraisal drilling defined an oil and gas accumulation with inplace gas of 14.3 Gm3 (508 BCF) and in-place oil o...
State of Stress in the Timor Sea Area based on Deep Wellbore Observations and Frictional Failure Criteria: Application to Fault-trap Integrity
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: David A. Castillo, Richard R. Hillis, Keven Asquith and Mike Fischer
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
A regional in situ stress analysis based on data collected in over thirty wells drilled in the Zone of Cooperation (ZOCA) 91-01, 91-12, 91-13, 95-16 and AC/PS have been used to better understand the mechanisms responsible for fault seal failure in th...
Lambert 2 Oil and Gas Discovery, Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: D. R. Kingsley, M. J. Thompson, D. P. Harris and J. Fowles
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
In 1973 Lambert 1 penetrated an 11 in oil column in Upper Jurassic Angel Formation sands, but for twenty-two years the Lambert Field was considered too small to warrant additional investigation. In 1995, detailed time and velocity interpretation of t...
Evidence for a Submarine Oil Seep in the Offshore Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: T. J. Currie, R. Alexander and R. I. Kagi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Coastal bitumens collected from the Western Australian coastline have been analysed for chemical fossils and the results combined with similar data for crude oils from the western continental margin. One group of asphaltic bitumens that occur along t...
Reservoir Geology of the Perseus Field, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: N. B. Thompson, M. L. Taylor and N. C. Taylor
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Perseus Field is a giant gas accumulation in a complex structural/stratigraphic trap. Gas is reservoired in Bathonian to Callovian deltaic sandstones of the Legendre Formation, which subcrop the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous 'Main Unconformity'...
Revised Upper Permian Stratigraphy of the Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John D. Gorter
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Recent well correlations have shown four regionallyextensive Upper Permian limestones in the Bonaparte Basin. The regional extent and mapability of these carbonates dictates revision of Upper Permian sequences. The Cape Hay Member and Tern Member of ...
Late Tertiary-Quaternary Geological Evolution of the Houtman Abrolhos Carbonate Platforms, Northern Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Lindsay B. Collins, Zhong Rong Zhu and Karl-Heinz Wyrwoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Houtman Abrolhos coral reefs are three shelf-edge carbonate platforms which together form the discontinuously rimmed Abrolhos Shelf. During the Tertiary to Quaternary there was a vertical transition from cool-water ramp sedimentation to reefal pl...
Structural Evolution of the Browse Basin, North West Shelf: New Concepts from Deep-seismic Data
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Heike I.M. Struckmeyer, Jane E. Blevin, Jacques Sayers, Jennifer M. Totterdell, Ken Baxter and Donna L. Cathro
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
In 1996 and 1997, the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO) conducted an integrated analysis of the Browse Basin, North West Shelf, based on the structural and sequence stratigraphic interpretation of AGSO's regional deep-seismic and high-...
Development of the Goodwyn Gas Field, Dampier Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: A. Young
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
It is ten years since the Goodwyn Field was last described in a PESA publication (Vincent & Tilbury, 1988). This period has seen the installation of the GWA platform and commencement of condensate and gas production from the partly developed GE/GFA r...
Evidence of Lower Triassic Reservoirs with Possible Hydrocarbon Charge in the Southern Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Victor Ziolkowski and Steward W. Bayford
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
A sandstone within the Lower Triassic Mt Goodwin Formation in wells in the southern Bonaparte Basin is commonly associated with a mappable seismic reflector. Several seismic profiles show brightening of this event, and direct hydrocarbon indicators s...
The Lennard Shelf Revisited
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Angelo Crostella
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Hydrocarbon exploration in the Lennard Shelf was prompted by the occurrence of Devonian reefs, outcropping spectacularly in the region. Following the discovery of accumulations within clastic reservoirs, Permo-Carboniferous rocks became the focus of ...
Stratigraphy, reservoir Geometry and Facies Architecture of a Modern Arid Playa Lacustrine Delta; Neals River Delta, Lake Eyre, Australia
- Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1998
- Authors: Tim Hicks
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: December 1998
Tectonostratigraphic Framework and Petroleum Systems of the Browse Basin, North West Shelf
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J. E. Blevin, H. I. M. Struckmeyer, D. L. Cathro, J. M. Totterdell, C. J. Boreham, K. K. Romine, T. S. Loutit and J. Sayers
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
A regional study of the Browse Basin, undertaken at AGSO during 1996-97, sought to develop a structural and stratigraphic model for the evolution of the basin, with particular emphasis on the evolution of petroleum systems in the prospective Mesozoic...
Recent Discoveries in the Barrow and Dampier Sub-basins: Agincourt, Alkimos, Wonnich, Reindeer and Legendre Fields
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M. Ballesteros
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Apache Energy has been involved in several discoveries in the Carnarvon Basin since 1994. These include three new field discoveries (Agincourt, Alkimos and Wonnich) in the established Lower Cretaceous Flag Sandstone play fairway in the Barrow Sub-bas...
Evaluating Trap Integrity in the Vulcan Sub-basin, Timor Sea, Australia, using Integrated Remote-sensing Geochemical Technologies
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: G. W. O'Brien, P. Quaife, R. Cowley, M. Morse, D. Wilson, M. Fellows and M. Lisk
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Poor trap integrity, which relates to Mio-Piiocene continental convergence and fault reactivation, is the principal exploration uncertainty within Australia's Timor Sea. In this area, the style of the Neogene structural reactivation is a direct funct...