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Extensional Structures of the Jabiru Terrace, Vulcan Sub-basin

Extensional Structures of the Jabiru Terrace, Vulcan Sub-basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: E.P. Woods
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Sandbox models were constructed to investigate the development of faults in an extensional regime. The models generally displayed a crossing-fault geometry with a graben overlying a horst, and are similar to seismically-defined "hourglass" structures...

 

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Seismic Atlas of the North West Shelf

Seismic Atlas of the North West Shelf

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: M.F. Middleton
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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More than 300 000 km of seismic reflection surveying has been shot on the North West Shelf of Australia. A selection of these data, showing some features of structural and stratigraphic importance, are reviewed in this atlas. TheN orth West Shelf is ...

 

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Morphotectonics of Australia’s Northwestern Margin – A Review

Morphotectonics of Australia’s Northwestern Margin – A Review

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: J.J. Veevers
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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The North West Shelf is part of Australia's north-western continental margin. This margin evolved from a Mesozoic rifted-arch system that developed along the Gondwanaland/Tethyan margin, the successor to rifted-arch systems of Cambrian and Carbonifer...

 

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Geochemistry of the Turtle Oil Accumulation, Offshore Southern Bonaparte Basin

Geochemistry of the Turtle Oil Accumulation, Offshore Southern Bonaparte Basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: P.J. Jefferies
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Turtle 1 was drilled in 1984 in the offshore southern Bonaparte Basin. The well encountered numerous oil shows in sands of the Late Carboniferous to Early Permian Kulshill Group, but an extensive testing programme failed to produce hydrocarbons at co...

 

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Bonaparte Basin Petroleum Accumulations

Bonaparte Basin Petroleum Accumulations

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: I.H. Lavering and S. Ozimic
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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The thirty-three known petroleum accumulations in the Bonaparte Basin comprise oil, oil/ gas, and gas/ condensate in reservoirs of Devonian to Tertiary age. The largest of these oil accumulations, Challis, Jabiru, Puffin and Skua, occur in fault and ...

 

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Seismic Exploration on Barrow Island

Seismic Exploration on Barrow Island

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: P.A. Jelley and M.J. Sayers
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Seismic exploration for oil on Barrow Island began in 1963 with the recording of two seismic refraction lines. Since then, three regional surveys and a recent semi-detailed survey have been conducted. The early seismic work supported surface geologic...

 

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Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Basal Winning Group, Northern Carnarvon Basin

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Basal Winning Group, Northern Carnarvon Basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: R.M. Hocking, J.W.K. Voon and L.B. Collins
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Sands at the base ofthe Winning Group, immediately beneath the Muderong Shale, can be assigned to three broad groups, on the basis of core, outcrop and electric log data. The groups are distinct lithofacies associations, and correspond to established...

 

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A RAMBOE Study of the Cape Range No. 2 Well, Exmouth Sub-basin

A RAMBOE Study of the Cape Range No. 2 Well, Exmouth Sub-basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: R.W.T. Wilkins, G. Hladky, M.V. Ellacott and J.D. Saxby
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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The Raman microbeam oil exploration (RAMBOE) source rocks, based on the changes in Raman and background fluorescence spectra of macerals with thermal maturity. In this technique, the laser beam is focused on micrometre-sized maceral particles exposed...

 

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Gas and Oil Fields of the Rankin Trend and Northern Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin

Gas and Oil Fields of the Rankin Trend and Northern Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: P. Vincent and L. Tilbury
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Several large gas fields and numerous small oil accumulations have been discovered within the northern Barrow-Dampier Sub-basin and along the Rankin Trend. The majority of these fields occur in Upper Triassic to lowermost Jurassic fluvial and margina...

 

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A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

A Case Study of Seismic Exploration in the Offshore Bonaparte Basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: J. Durrant and A. Young
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Exploration permit NT/P40, operated by Western Mining Corporation Limited (WM C), is situated in the north-eastern Bonaparte Basin. Early seismic exploration failed to delineate the primary objective section because of its significant depth of buria...

 

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Petrology and Diagenesis of the Flag Sandstone, Harriet Field, Barrow Sub-basin

Petrology and Diagenesis of the Flag Sandstone, Harriet Field, Barrow Sub-basin

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: R. de Boer and L.B. Collins
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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The Flag Sandstone, a thick sequence of massive sandstones with minor intercalated claystones, is the producing reservoir in the Harriet Oilfield and other hydrocarbon accumulations in permit WA-192-P in the Barrow Sub-basin. The sandstones are homog...

 

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The Development and Status of the Mesozoic Palynostratigraphy of the North West Shelf, Australia

The Development and Status of the Mesozoic Palynostratigraphy of the North West Shelf, Australia

Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
Authors: B. Ingram and R. Morgan
Reference Type: Book Section
Date Published: July 1988

 

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Palynology (the study of acid insoluble microfossils) has grown from a scientific curiosity in the 1830s through a rudimentary time-tool in oil exploration in the 1960s to provide the modern explorer with precise age dating and detailed information o...

 

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