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Flourescence Alteration and Thermal Maturation Modelling of Carnarvon Basin Wells
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: R.W.T. Wilkins, N.J. Russell and M.V. Ellacott
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Fluorescence alteration of multiple macerals (FAMM) is a powerful new CSIRO technique based on fluorescence alteration properties of macerals. FAMM provides equivalent vitrinite reflectance (EVR) data that are internally corrected for reflectance sup...
The Influence of Basement on Faulting within the Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M.C. Dentith, A. Long, J. Scott, L.B. Harris and S.A. Wilde
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Tectonostratigraphic (suspect) terranes have beenrecognised within both the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, to the east of the Perth Basin, and in the Pinjarra Orogen which the basin overlies. However, there is evidence that only one of these Archaean bound...
Petroleum Resources of the Western Australian Basins
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: S.R. le Poidevin and R.D. Lowden
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
This paper summarises the oil and gas production, the known reserves, and the potential for further discoveries of resources of oil-and gas in the Bonaparte, Browse, Canning, Carnarvon, and Perth basins of Western Australia.
Production during 1993 of...
The Leatherback Discovery, Carnarvon Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: J.A. Bauer, E.C.D. Hooper, and J. Crowley
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Leatherback-1 was the first well on the eastern flank of the Carnarvon Basin to encounter oil in the Triassic. The well, drilled on a Triassic fault block sealed by Jurassic-Triassic shales, intersected a seven metre oil column at the top of the Mung...
The Good and Bad of Diagenesis – A Review of Sandstone Reservoirs in the North Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M.F. Killick and P.H. Robinson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Recent drilling has provided access to previously unknown Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous sandstones in the North Bonaparte Basin, enabling refinement of existing depositional and diagenetic models. These sandstones represent a range of deposition...
The Ordovician to Silurian Phase of the Canning Basin, WA: Structure and Sequence Evolution
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: K.K. Romine, P.N. Southgate, J.M. Kennard and M.J. Jackson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
A chronostratigraphic framework has been constructed for the Ordovician- Silurian phase of the Canning Basin. This integrated tectonic- and sequence-stratigraphic analysis provides an understanding of the shapes of the sub-basins and the effects of a...
Sequence Stratigraphy of the Lower Neocomian Barrow Delta, Exmouth Plateau, Northwestern Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Malcolm I. Ross and Peter R. Vail
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
During the Berriasian-early Valanginian (early Neocomian), the southern Exmouth Plateau is characterized by a northward-prograding clastic delta system: the Barrow Delta. An integrated sequence stratigraphic interpretation of the Barrow Delta based o...
Transtensional Analogue Modelling applied to the Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: L.B. Harris, R.I. Higgins, M.C. Dentith and M.F. Middleton
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
In order to investigate the temporal and spatial development of faults in the north-south trending Perth Basin of Western Australia, an analogue model was constructed using two silicone putties of different viscosity to represent ductile Mesoproteroz...
Northern Carnarvon Basin Hydrocarbon Distribution and Future Petroleum Potential
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: E. Kopsen
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
To date, exploration in the greater northern Carnarvon Basin has resulted in at least 80 wildcat discoveries, including four giant fields and seven major fields. With indicated total basin reserves of some 9.1 BBOE, this is
Australia's richest oil an...
West Muiron Discovery, WA-155-P – New Life for an Old Prospect
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Lorraine Mitchelmore and Neville Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The discovery of the West Muiron gas and oil fields in 1992/3 (now renamed the Macedon-Pyrenees fields) was
the culmination of an intensive two-year period of regional geophysical and geological evaluation by the WA-155-P Joint Venture in the Carnarv...
Contemporary Stresses in the Timor Sea: Implications for Fault-trap Integrity
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: S.D. Mildren, R.R. Hills, T. Fett and P.H. Robinson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Borehole breakouts are zones of elliptical wellbore cross-section caused by compressional shear failure of
the wellbore wall. In vertical wells the long axis of breakout ellipses is parallel to the minimum horizontal contemporary stress direction. Dr...
A Proposed Third-order Sequence Framework for the Upper Devonian Outcrops of the Northern Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: D.B. Whittam, J.M. Kennard, R.B. Kirk, J.F. Sarg and P.N. Southgate
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Preliminary outcrop studies of the Devonian reef complexes exposed at the northern margin of the Canning Basin have identified six third-order sequences within a second-order, transgressive-regressive sequence. Significant lowstand events that result...
Oil and Gas Accumulations of the Offshore Barrow – Exmouth Sub-basins – Trends in Hydrocarbon Habitat
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: M.L. Zaunbrecher
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Four main observations can be made concerning the hydrocarbon accumulations discovered to date in the
Barrow and Exmouth sub-basins:
1. most oil accumulations occur in Cretaceous reservoirs, whereas gas accumulations occur in reservoirs of various ag...
The Structural Architecture and Stratigraphy of the Offshore Northern Perth Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: P. Quaife, J. Rosser and S. Pagnozzi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The offshore northern Perth Basin is part of an extensive system of genetically -linked structural terrains which record the progressive rifting and Early Cretaceous breakup of the Australian and Greater Indian plates. At least two significant period...
Source Rocks of West Australian Basins – Distribution, Character and Models
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: John Scott
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Potential source rock intervals are stratigraphically widespread in Western Australia, being documented in every period from the Ordovician to the Cretaceous. Rich source rock intervals are common in continental
alluvial and continental to marginal m...
The Maitland Gas Discovery – A Geological/Geophysical Case History
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: K.H. Sit, P.M. Hillock and N.W.D. Miller
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Maitland gas field lies 29 km northwest of Barrow Island in WA-149-P in the offshore Barrow Sub-basin. Maitland was first recognised on 1985 2-D seismic data as a near Base Tertiary amplitude anomaly. Subsequent
interpretation of 1989 and 1991 2-...
The Sedimentary Basins of Western Australia: An Introduction
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: P.G. and R.R. Purcell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Western Australia is one of six federated sovereign States within the Commonwealth of Australia. It covers an onshore area of over 2 500 000 km2, almost one-third of the Australian mainland, and is one of the largest
political units in the world. The...
A Carbonate Dilaform, Brooking Springs, Canning Basin, WA
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Brian W. Logan, David J. Frances and Maritsa Economo
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The paper is an account of the nature and genesis of a carbonate dilaform that is embedded in Devonian formations that crop out on Brooking Springs station in the northern Canning Basin. It is a kilometre-scale,
composite structure composed of a 30 k...
Tectonic Framework of Western Australia’s Neoproterozoic to Recent Sedimentary Basins
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: P.W. Baillie, C. McA. Powell, Z.X. Li and A.M. Ryall
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The development of Western Australia's sedimentary basins over the past 1000 million years can be related to
an integrated seven-stage tectonic framework. From near the end of the Mesoproterozoic until approximately 700 Ma, Western Australia lay in a...
Advances in the understanding of Upper Permian Reservoir Distribution and Quality, North Perth Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: N.P. Tupper, S.E. Phillips and B.P.J. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
A detailed evaluation of the Upper Permian sequence in the north Perth Basin has resulted in a better understanding of reservoir distribution and quality. Biostratigraphy, sedimentology, petrology and log analysis have been combined to explain reserv...
Sequence Stratigraphy and the North West Shelf of Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: V.R. Labutis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
An abundance of papers based on various approaches to sequence stratigraphy has appeared in the international and Australian literature in recent years. That not all have shown a thorough understanding of
the basic concepts is understandable, given t...
Wandoo Oil Field: A Formation Evaluation Case History
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: E. Delfos
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Wandoo oil discovery in high porosity, unconsolidated, glauconitic sandstones challenged all forms of formation evaluation. The effects of glauconite on wireline logs, both electric and nuclear are difficult to determine because of its complex el...
Oil Migration in the Cartier Trough, Vulcan Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Mark Lisk and Peter Eadington
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
In currently water wet sandstones of the Plover Formation from Octavius-2 the high percentage of quartz grains containing oil bearing inclusions is comparable to oil zone samples from Jabiru-1A. This evidence for high palaeo-oil saturation in samples...
Carbonate Breccias and Quartzo-feldspathic Sandstones of the Marginal Slope, Devonian Reef Complex, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Annette D. George, Phillip E. Playford and Christopher McA. Powell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Carbonate breccias and coarse quartzo-feldspathic sandstones are conspicuous lithofacies within the marginal-slope succession of the Devonian Napier Range reef complex in the northern Canning Basin. Rigid application of sequence-stratigraphic models ...
Mid-Cretaceous Concretionary Carbonate Reservoirs at Barrow Island, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Glynn Ellis, Alan M. Tait and Peter J. Gibson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
Carbonate concretions in the mid-Cretaceous Gearle Siltstone and Beedagong Claystone form unusual hydrocarbon reservoirs in the Barrow Island Oil Field in the Carnarvon Basin of Western Australia. Concretions recovered from cores vary in size, lithol...
The Neoproterozoic Savory Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: I.R. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Savory Basin is a newly recognised c. 820-550 Ma Proterozoic sedimentary basin in central Western Australia. Situated southeast of the Pilbara Craton and north of the Yilgarn Craton, the basin unconformably overlies the eastern part of the Mesopr...
The Mesozoic and Cainozoic Sequences of the Northwest Australian Margin, as revealed by ODP Core Drilling and Related Studies
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: N.F. Exon and U. von Rad
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
During Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) legs 122 and 123, six sites were continuously cored on the Exmouth and Wombat plateaus, and two sites on or adjacent to the abyssal plains nearby. Altogether, 3372 m of section were cored at the Exmouth-Wombat site...
Deep Reflections on the North West Shelf: Changing Perceptions of Basin Formation
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: AGSO North West Shelf Study Group
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Australian Geological Survey Organisation has recently acquired a unique grid of regional, deep-seismic data across all of the major structural elements of the North West Shelf. Interpretation of a set of 'dip' profiles across the northern Carnar...
Deep Structure of the Browse Basin: Implications for Basin Development and Petroleum Exploration
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: P.A. Symonds, C.D.N. Collins and J. Bradshaw
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
In mid-1993, the Australian Geological Survey Organisation (AGSO), acquired about 3400 km of deep-seismic data (16 s record length) on a regional grid of lines over the Browse Basin off northwestern Australia. These data are linked to similar AGSO da...
Timing of Hydrocarbon Migration into the Admiral bay Fault Zone, Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Sedimentary Basins of WA
- Authors: Stuart McCracken
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1994
Abstract:
The Admiral Bay Fault Zone (ABFZ) was initiated in the earliest Ordovician (Tremodocian) as extensional faults on the northern margin of a half graben, the Willara Sub-basin. Growth of the ABFZ ceased during the late Early Ordovician when thermal sub...