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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...
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...
Reinterpretation of the Permo-Carboniferous Succession, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: S. N. Apak and J. Backhouse
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Grant Group of the Canning Basin is redefined and restricted to the interval previously referred to as the Upper Grant. The Grant Group on the Barbwire Terrace has been previously subdivided into the Hoya, Calytrix and Clianthus formations and th...
An Effective Lower Cretaceous Petroleum System on the North West Shelf: Evidence from the Browse Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J. E. Blevin, C. J. Boreham, R. E. Summons, H. I. M. Struckmeyer and T. S. Loutit
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Recent discoveries at Cornea 1 and Gwydion 1 on the southeastern margin of the Browse Basin (Yampi Shelf) have highlighted the potential for liquid hydrocarbon generation in what was previously perceived to be a gas-prone basin. As part of AGSO's Bro...
Hydrocarbon Leakage on the North West Shelf, Australia: New Information from the Integration of Airborne Laser Fluorosensor (ALF) and Structural Data
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: G. T. Cooper, C. R. Barnes, J. D. Bourne and G. J. Channon
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Airborne Laser Fluorosensor (ALF) data from the AC/PlS region of the Timor Sea have been interpreted in conjunction with high quality 2D Andromeda reflection seismic data. ALF anomalies are observed to occur at or near the tips of major Mesozoic faul...
The Palaeozoic Play in the Southern Canning Basin – Results of Looma 1
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M. R. King
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Looma 1 was drilled as an exploration well targeting the Ordovician Nita Formation and Acacia Sandstone in EP 353 of the south Canning Basin. The main predrill risks and uncertainties were identified as structural validity, reservoir quality and char...
Basement Control and Geoseismic Definition of the Cornea Discovery, Browse Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Alan Stein, Keith Myers, Chris Lewis, Theresa Cruse and Steve Winstanley
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Cornea Field in the Browse Basin is the first potentially commercial oil discovery in what was previously considered to be a gas-prone basin. The fleld results from drape of Albian sandstones over folded basement. The sands have been charged by l...
Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Palaeozoic, Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: K. A. R. Ghori
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Geochemical analyses confirm the presence of Silurian, Upper Devonian, Lower Permian and Upper Permian source rock intervals within the Carnarvon Basin.
Oil-prone source beds within the Silurian Dirk Hartog Group on the Gascoyne Platform have fair to...
Fluid Flow, Diagenesis and Hydrocarbon Entrapment History of the Plover Formation, Sahul Platform, Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Grant K. Ellis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
An understanding of fluid flow, diagenesis and hydrocarbon entrapment history in the Middle Jurassic Plover Formation intersected in Naga 1, Hydra 1 and Basilisk 1A, on the Sahul Platform of the Bonaparte Basin, has been developed from an integrated ...
Petroleum Generating Potential and Thermal History of the Neoproterozoic Officer Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: K. A. R. Ghori
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Geochemical analyses confirm the presence of good quality but thin oil source rocks within the Neoproterozoic succession of the western Officer Basin. The available geochemical dataset, however, is insufficient to positively identify the source of oi...
A New Tectonic Model for the Evolution of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Falih M. Daim and Paul G. Lennox
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Continental-scale lineaments, including the configuration of the sedimentary basins, show that Australia is subdivided by master west-northwesttrending transcurrent faults, which have been active intermittently since the Proterozoic.
Differential mob...
Marine Biostratigraphy and Correlation of the West Australian Permian Basins
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: N. W. Archbold
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Marine Permian strata of the onshore Perth, Carnarvon, Canning and Bonaparte basins have traditionally been correlated with Uralian, Tethyan and other sequences by means of marine invertebrate faunas. Marine benthonic invertebrate assemblages are ide...
Sequence Stratigraphy and Hydrocarbon Potential of the Middle to Upper Devonian Sequences in the Southern Carnarvon Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John D. Gorter, Arthur Mory and Robert S. Nicoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
This new interpretation of the facies relationships within the Nannyarra, Gneudna and Munabia formations illustrates the distribution of source, reservoir and seal within the latest Middle and lower Upper Devonian (latest Givetian to Famennian) seque...
Hydrocarbon Charge in the Vulcan Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M. Lisk, M. P. Brincat, P. J. Eadington and G. W. O'Brien
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
A comprehensive examination of hydrocarbon charge history has been completed for the central Vulcan Sub-basin, Timor Sea. Analyses on thirteen hydrocarbon discoveries and evaluation of thirty five plugged and abandoned wells have revealed that oil fi...
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...