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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...
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...
Seismic character delineation of fluvial sandbody geometry, upper Toolachee Formation, central Patchawarra Trough, Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: R.J. Taylor and A.D. Thomas
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Within the Late Permian Toolachee Formation of the central Patchawarra Trough a fluvial sandstone complex of
low sinuosity can be traced by mapping a seismic anomaly. The anomaly is characterised by an additional seismic peak developed below the Tool...
Aspects of recent oil discoveries in ATP 299P(2), south-west Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: S. Greaves and E. Surka
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Authority to Prospect (ATP) 299P(2) is located in the south-west Queensland portion of the Eromanga Basin.
Since the initial commercial oil discovery at Tintaburra in 1983, a discovery success rate of 60 per cent has been
achieved by the Operator, Ha...
The geometry of Toolachee Unit “C” fluvial sand trends, Moomba Field, Permian Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: W.A. Fairburn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Based on detailed core facies analyses, the depositional environment for the Toolachee Unit 'C' sand reservoirs is interpreted to be a moderate to high sinuosity channel system. Core studies have shown that the Toolachee Unit 'C' sediments are domina...
Possible stratigrphic controls on hydrocarbon distribution within the Jurassic – Early Cretaceous rocks, Eromanga Basin, southern Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.M. Green, T.J. Brain and B.H. John
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Results of detailed wire-line log correlations have enabled a uniform stratigraphic framework for the Jurassic-Early Cretaceous sequence in the Eromanga Basin in southern Queensland to be established. The broad regional pattern of basin development w...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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...
Subsidence history of the Eromanga basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: S. Zhou
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Eromanga Basin, possibly owing its initial formation to deep crustal metamorphism due to crustal heating, was subject to abnormally large subsidence from the Aptian to the Cenomanian, during which time a thick sequence of marine to non-marine sed...
The occurrence and search for Permian oil in the Cooper Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: C.C. Yew and A.A. Mills
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Exploration efforts in PELs 5 and 6 in South Australia and in ATP 259P in Queensland have been directed traditionally towards the search for gas in the Permian Cooper Basin and for oil in the overlying Jurassic Cretaceous Eromanga Basin. These effort...
Case studies of stratigraphic and fault traps in the Cooper Basin, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.J. Stanmore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Exploration for hydrocarbons in the Permo-Triassic Cooper Basin has led to the discovery of oil and gas in both
structural and structural/stratigraphic traps. However, as the hydrocarbon potential of the Basin has largely been addressed by drilling t...
Petroleum accumulations of the Eromanga Basin: a comparison with other Australian Mesozoic accumulations
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: V.L. Passmore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The rapidly growing number of oil and gas discoveries in the Eromanga Basin demonstrates that the Eromanga
Basin is one of the most prolific and important of the Australian Jurassic and Cretaceous petroleum basins.
Although most of its accumulations ...
The prospects for Eromanga oil accumulations in the northern Cooper Basin region, Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: A.R. Gilby and I.R. Mortimore
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Although the Eromanga Basin where it overlies the northern Cooper Basin has not proved as prolific an oil
province as in the southern Cooper Basin, a number of key discoveries have been made in recent years which offer the prospect of further economi...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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....
The Talundilly anomaly and its implications for hydrocarbon exploration of Eromanga astroblemes
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: I.M. Longley
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
In the Talundilly area of the Eromanga Basin there is a circular area 95 km across with disturbed seismic
character. This disturbance is most readily recognized by the absence of the strong 'C' horizon (top Cadna-owie
Formation) seismic reflector. Th...
Aspects of the hydrogeology of the southern Eromanga Basin, Queenland
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: P.J. Muller
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Eromanga Basin consists essentially of a multilayered aquifer system which contains two distinct groups of
aquifers, namely those in the pre-Wallumbilla Formation units, and those in the Wallumbilla Formation and ounger units. The two groups ref...
Thermal maturity and other geological controls on the distribution and composition of Cooper Basin hydrocarbons
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: J.W. Hunt, R.S. Heath, and P.F. McKenzie
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
The Permo-Triassic Cooper Basin is Australia's major onshore hydrocarbon province. Hydrocarbons discovered
in the Basin to date comprise mainly gas (approximately 6 TCF recoverable) although one large oil pool, in the
Tirrawarra Sandstone of the Tirr...
Casing corrosion in the Moomba area, Cooper Basin, South Australia
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: S. Martucci
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
This paper outlines the blow out of Della-1 gas well and the subsequent investigation into the causes of the failure. As part of this work, selection criteria were developed in order to evaluate other wells possibly at risk. Studies carried out on ot...
Geochemical correlation of source rocks and crude oils from the Cooper and Eromanga Basins
- Publication Name: The Cooper & Eromanga Basins Australia
- Authors: C.C. Jenkins
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: June 1989
Abstract:
Within the South Australian and Queensland sectors of the Cooper and Eromanga Basins, a detailed geochemical study was performed on source rocks and crude oils to define the relative hydrocarbon contributions from each Basin.
Source rocks from the Ju...
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...
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...