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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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Higher Plant Biomarkers on the Nmth West Shelf: Application in Stratigraphic Correlation and Palaeoclimate Reconstruction
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: B. G. K. van Aarssen, R. Alexander and R. 1. Kagi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Recently developed biomarker technology has been used to correlate sedimentary sequences on the North West Shelf. Higher plants present at time of deposition of the sediments leave a fingerprint in the form of chemical fossils. This fingerprint refle...
Revised Biostratigraphic (Conodont-Palynomorph) Zonation of the Triassic of Western and Northwestern Australia and Timor
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Robert S. Nicoll and Clinton B. Foster
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Studies of the relationships between conodont faunas and spore-pollen and dinocyst palynofloras from the subsurface of basins of the Western Australian margin have revised the hard links between Australian palynomorph zones and the classic stage term...
WAPIMS: A New Petroleum Exploration Database for Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J.H. Haworth and L.M. Arden
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The Western Australian Petroleum Information Management System (WAPIMS) is a major new relational petroleum database created by the Department of Minerals and Energy, Western Australia (DME) to serve the current and future requirements of the petrole...
The Outer Limits of Australia’s Resource Jurisdiction off Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Philip A. Symonds, Brian Murphy, Doug Ramsay, Keith Lockwood and Irina Borissova
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
The outer limits of the seabed and subsoil resource regime off Western Australia - the Continental Shelf - are based on boundaries with the international community to the west and south, and boundaries negotiated with Indonesia in the north. The rule...
Volcanic Evolution of the Western Australian Continental Margin and its Implications for Basin Development
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Philip A. Symonds, Sverre Planke, Oivind Frey and Jakob Skogseid
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
A systematic interpretation of modern deep-seismic and OBS refraction data, combined with existing seismic and well data has revealed the presence of an extensive magmatic province along the western Australian margin. The magmatism is represented by ...
A New Kinematic Model for the Formation and Evolution of the West and Northwest Australian Margin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: R. Dietmar M?ller, Dona Mihut and Stephanie Baldwin
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Satellite altimetry has revolutionised our knowledge of the tectonic structure of the ocean floor and the continental shelves where ship data are sparse. We have used existing and new ship magnetic, bathymetric and seismic data with satellite derived...
Revised Sea-floor Spreading History of the Argo Abyssal Plain
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Dona Mihut and R. Dietmar M?ller
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Lineated, northeast-southwest trending short-wavelength gravity anomalies in the Argo Abyssal Plain visible in satellite derived gravity anomalies agree with the basement fabric mapped from seismic data (Gopala Rao et al., 1994) and disagree with all...
Neogene Deformation of the North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M. Keep, C. McA. Powell and P. W. Baillie
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Changing angles of collision between the Indo- Australian and Eurasian plates result in a variety of reactivation structures along the North West Shelf. Specific reactivation patterns vary depending on the convergence angle at any point around the Sh...
Palaeogeography and its Impact on the Petroleum Systems of the North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J. Bradshaw, J. Sayers, M. Bradshaw, R. Kneale, C. Ford, L. Spencer and M. Lisk
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1998
Abstract:
Palaeogeographic studies of the North West Shelf region give insights into the operation of a number of prolific petroleum systems. Some systems are currently being exploited (Dampier Sub-basin) while others have yet to fulfil their potential (Exmout...
PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium – Exploration and Development
- Publication Name: PESA (QLD) Petroleum Symposium 1998
- Authors: Steven I. Mackie
- Reference Type: Magazine Article
- Date Published: December 1998