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Revision of Triassic stratigraphy at the Cooper Basin to Eromanga Basin transition
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: G.D. Powis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
In recent years it has become apparent that all of the Triassic-aged strata overlying the Cooper Basin cannot
adequately be placed into the only formally defined Triassic formation, the Nappamerri Formation. Not only do these strata not conform litho...
A Permian origin for Jurassic reservoired oil in the Eromanga Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: R. Heath, S. McIntyre and N. Gibbins
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Discoveries made in mid-1988 on the Taloola Trend in the Lake Hope Block marked a watershed for Eromanga
Basin oil exploration. The discoveries were made using an exploration model/play concept of sourcing from the
adjacent coaly Permian rocks of the...
SANTOS and environmental management
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: O. Morozow
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
For the past decade SANTOS has utilized the services of its Environmental Section in order to bring about
positive and visible improvements to its field exploration and production activities in terms of their impact on the environment.
The company's ...
Organic facies and petroleum geochemistry of the lacustrine Murta Member (Mooga Formation) in the Eromanga Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: B.H. Michaelsen and D.M. McKirdy
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Murta Member (Mooga Formation) is a laterally extensive lacustrine unit, displaying some marine influence
in its upper part, which was deposited across the southern Eromanga Basin under a moist cool temperate climatic regime during the Early Cret...
Mesozoic stratigraphy and palaeogeography, eastern Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: M. J. Wiltshire
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Detailed time-stratigraphic and palaeogeographic analysis of contemporaneous Permo-Triassic, Mid to Late
Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous sequences in the Eromanga, Surat, Carpentaria, Laura, Clarence-Moreton,
and Sydney Basins is currently being un...
The Stratigraphy and hydrocarbon potential of the northern Eromanga Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: T. Scholefield
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Two areas with the potential to contain economic accumulations of hydrocarbons are recognised in the
northern Eromanga Basin region. In the east and south, on the crest of the Maneroo Platform, an
overbank/backswamp depositional environment for the B...
Exploring the multiple land use concept – a South Australian model
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: N. Newland
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Many people in the community believe that mineral exploration and exploitation and conservation of nature
on the same land are mutually exclusive. The South Australian Government has challenged this assumption by
recent amendments to the State's Nati...
Palaeogeothermometry of the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: N.J. Russell and Y. Bone
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The relationship between vitrinite reflectivity, fluid inclusion homogenization temperature and present-day
formation temperature provides a guide to the palaeogeothermometry of siliciclastic sedimentary rocks in
the Cooper and Eromanga Basins in Sou...
Lineament-hydrocarbon associations in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: I.B. Campbell and E.S.T. O'Driscoll
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
New petroleum discoveries in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins have added greatly to the resolution of the!r
relationship to structural patterns governing the occurrence of oil and gas,and have provided additional evidence of the lineament-hydrocarbon a...
The Mulkarra Structure: a possible buried impact crater in the western Eromanga Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: M. Flynn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Geophysical data suggest the presence of a possible buried meteoritic impact site, known as the Mulkarra
Structure, within the Mulka Block of Petroleum Exploration Licences 5 and 6 in the western Eromanga Basin South Australia. An anomalous zone, 17 ...
A review of seismic acquisition trials and procedures in the Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.R. Hughes and N.A. Fitzgerald
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
During recent years, as the exploration phase in the Cooper Basin has reached a mature level, it has become
necessary for the seismic data to achieve increased structural and stratigraphic resolution while subject to the economic constraints brought ...
Kerogen characterisation and organic and mineral diagenesis of potential source rocks in Jurassic units, southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.J. Hawkins, C.S. Almond, D.C. Carmichael, R.J. Smith and L.J. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Source-rock richness, dominant kerogen types, levels of organic maturation and thermal histories have been used to highlight differences in potential Jurassic source rocks ('basal Jurassic' unit, Birkhead Formation and Westbourne Formation) east of t...
The exploration history and status of the Cooper and Eromanga basins
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: R.J.S. Hollingsworth
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Cooper and Eromanga Basins comprise the largest and most prolific onshore hydrocarbon province in Australia. Systematic exploration commenced in 1958 and is continuing strongly even in the present climate. The history of exploration in the Basins...
Unstable gas displacement in enhanced oil recovery
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: E. Allen and D.V. Boger
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Gas displacement techniques are now widely used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), especially for tight reservoirs,
and include carbon dioxide flooding, nitrogen flooding, hydrocarbon flooding, fire flooding and steam flooding.
These methods can result...
The enigmatic sub-surface Tookoonooka Complex in south-west Queenland: its impact origin and implications for hydrocarbon accumulations
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.D. Gorter, V.A. Gostin and P.S. Plummer
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Since the first regional seismic surveys in the Eromanga Basin of south-west Queensland in the early 1980s, the
Tookoonooka Complex has been recognised as a highly structured buried terrain of late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous age that is about 55 km...
Lateral changes in seismic velocities and their effect on depth prediction
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J. Pinchin and M. Bayly
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Seismic reflection resolution has improved to the point where two-way times may be mapped with a precision of
a few milliseconds, and the greatest error in depth prediction, especially across many of the fields in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, is m...
Hydrocarbon fluid history in relation to diagenesis in the Hutton Sandstone, south-west Queensland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.J. Eadington, P.J. Hamilton and P. Green
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Stable isotope, fluid inclusion and chemical kinetic studies of diagenetic cements have been used to investigate
the thermal and liquid hydrocarbon history of Hutton Sandstone samples from eight wells in south-west
Queensland.
Fluid inclusion data, t...
Casing design in relation to blowout prevention and well control in the Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: K.B. English
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Regulations under the South Australian Petroleum Act 1940 regarding casing shoe setting depths have been
redrafted. The new Regulations do not alter the preexisting intent with regard to casing design in relation to
well control. The need to redraft ...
Development of the Dullingari Murta Oil Field
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.A. Robinson and G.F. Butler
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Dullingari Murta Field was discovered in 1979 at Dullingari North-1, seventeen years after Dullingari-1 was
drilled. The two main Murta reservoirs are the 48-5 and 48-6 sands of Cretaceous age. The 48-5 sand was deposited as a shoreline-bar sand ...
GSQ Thargominda-3: a stratigraphic test of a ‘canyon-like’ feature near the Tookoonooka complex, Eromanga Basin, Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: Ian F. Young, L.M. Gunther and O. Dixon
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
GSQ Thargomindah-3, a fully cored stratigraphic bore, was designed to investigate seismic evidence of superimposed post-Westbourne and post-Cadna-owie channelling at a location 25 km south-east of the Tookoonooka Complex (south-west Queensland). It w...
Sand dune development within the Simpson Desert and its effect on statics calculation
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P. G. Senycia
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Early petroleum exploration in the Simpson Desert region was generally limited because of access problems
imposed by the presence of large and extensive sand dunes. Later detailed seismic field studies required the location of traverse lines in a tig...
Surface facilities for South Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins’ oil fields – changing with the times
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: S. Bruland
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The first oil production from the South Australian Cooper and Eromanga Basins went on stream between
December 1982 and March 1983. This was processed through field facilities at Strzelecki, Dullingati, Merrimelia
and Tirrawarra prior to being pumped ...
The influence of pre-Jurassic tectonic regimes on the structural development of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: K.L. Hoffmann
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
A structural study, including detailed seismic interpretation, of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queensland, has allowed determination of a sequence of structural events which have been age-correlated with plate tectonics. Widespread extension occurred...
Tirrawarra and Moorari Oil Fields enhanced oil recovery schemes – further developments
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.S. Rodda and T.G. Paspaliaris
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Tirrawarra and Moorari Oil Fields, discovered in 1970 and 1971 respectively, are located in the South
Australian portion of the Cooper Basin, with the Tirrawarra Field being the largest onshore Permian oil field in
Australia. Primary oil producti...
Applications of new cement technology in the Cooper and Eromanga Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: B.H. Gray
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
This paper summarises the 'state of the art' of cementing practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, in particular cementing materials and their potential application by engineers involved in the design and execution of cementing operations....
Drilling fluid systems and practices in the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: Tun H. Aung
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Since the first commercial hydrocarbon discovery in the Cooper Basm m December 1963, a variety of drilling fluid
systems have been used. The most economically viable are the three systems currently in operation, namely gellignosulfonate, salt-polymer...
Regional diagenesis – an important influence in porosity development and hydrocarbon accumulations within the Hutton Sandstone, Eromanga Basin
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.M. Green, P.J. Eadington, P.J. Hamilton and D.C. Carmichael
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The diagenetic history of the Hutton Sandstone in the southern Eromanga Basin in Queensland has been investigated using petrological, fluid inclusion and stable isotope techniques. Three distinct diagenetic zones were recognised according to whether ...
Consultants
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 14
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1989
Technical Articles: Sea level curve making waves
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 14
- Authors: Mary Fritz
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1989
News of Members and Branches
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 14
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1989