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The Exmouth Plateau Deep Water Frontier: A Case History
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.M. Barber
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Despite the presence of extremely large rotated fault blocks and associated compaction drape closures, drilling of 11 wells on the Exmouth Plateau discovered only non-commercial dry gas accumulations, including the large Scarborough Gas Field. The de...
Depositional Framework and Major Lithostragraphic Variations of the Barrow Group
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: S.C. Eriyagama, L.B. Collins and R.M. Hocking
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Deposition of Barrow Group sediments took place in the rift-related Barrow Sub-basin during the Neocomian. The delta progradation was limited on the east by a series of down-to-the-basin normal faults with a NNE-SSW orientation. Fault-controlled basi...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
Diagenesis of the Talisman-1 Reservoir Sequence
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: G.K. Ellis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Talisman-1 was drilled in 1984 at the northeastern end of the Dampier Sub-basin in permit WA-191-P. Testing of the Lower Cretaceous reservoir sequence produced a cumulative flow of 11,239 barrels of oil per day from three drill stem tests. The reserv...
The Offshore Canning Basin – A Review
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: E.L. Horstman and P.G. Purcell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The offshore Canning Basin is located on Australia's North West Shelf. Northwest-trending Palaeozoic structures of the onshore Canning Basin extend into the offshore area, deepening to the northwest and buried under a seaward thickening wedge of Meso...
Results of Exploration, Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: I. Willis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Browse Basin lies entirely offshore, beneath the remote northwestern continental shelf of Australia. It
occupies an area of approximately 100,000 square kilometres, most of which lies in water depths exceeding 200 metres. The Browse Basin existed...
Bonaparte Basin: Evolution and Structural Framework
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.J. Gunn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Bonaparte Basin of northwestern Australia commenced development as a Devonian rift which underwent a pivot-type opening about a pole at its southern end.
When extension ceased in the Mid Carboniferous the bounding faults at the northern end of th...
Regional Geology of the Offshore Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.J. Mory
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The offshore portion of the Bonaparte Basin extends under the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf to Ashmore Reef to the northwest and Flinders Shoal to the north, and covers an approximately triangular area of about 250 000 km2.
The oldest sediments which can be ...
Palaeogeographic Evolution of the North West Shelf Region
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: M.T. Bradshaw, A.N. Yeates, R.M. Beynon, A.T. Brakel, R.P. Langford, J.M. Totterdell and M. Yeung
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The BMR/ APIRA Palaeogeographic Maps Projecthas produced environmental reconstructions of Australia for seventy time slices, from the Cambrian to the Recent. The comprehensive coverage allows the geological history of the North West Shelf to be viewe...
The North West Shelf, Australia – An Introduction
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.G. & R.R. Purcell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The North West Shelf of Australia extends c2400 km along the northwest margin of the continent. It is a geographic province rather than a physiographic feature sensu stricto, and includes the continental shelf proper and the marginal platforms and pl...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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 ...
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
Abstract:
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...
Oil and Gas Fields in the Barrow Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: I.M. McClure, D.N. Smith, A.F. Williams, L.J. Clegg and C.C. Ford
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
The Harriet Oilfield
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: E.A. Howell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Harriet oilfield was discovered in 1983 when the Harriet-t well encountered a gross hydrocarbon column of 23 m in Lower Cretaceous turbidite sandstones. Detailed seismic surveys followed and a further ten wells were drilled on the field between 1...
The Rosette Discovery, Barrow Sub-basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.J. Williams
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Rosette oil and gas accumulation was discovered in September 1987 in WA-192-P in the Barrow Subbasin of the Carnarvon Basin. The discovery well was deviated from Varanus Island at an angle of approximately 45? to intersect a target located 1.3 km...
Gas Fields of the Browse Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: A.N. Bint
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Browse Basin is located on the North West Shelf of Australia, between the offshore Canning Basin to the
southwest and the Bonaparte Basin to the northeast. Two large gas fields have been discovered in the central
part of the basin, Scott Reef and...
Hydrocarbon Discoveries in the Bonaparte Basin
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P.J. Gunn
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Thirty three wells have been drilled in the Bonaparte Basin, and hydrocarbon indications have been found in formations ranging in age from Devonian to Jurassic. The most significant discoveries to date are the Petrel
and Tern gas fields, with late Pe...
The Geology of the Challis Oilfield – Timor Sea, Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: G.B. Wormald
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The Challis oilfield, discovered in October 1984, is located within the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands Licence AC/L3 in the Vulcan Sub-basin. Following the Challis-1 discovery well, a reconnaissance 3D seismic survey was conducted over the ...
Jabiru Oilfield
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: R.P. MacDaniel
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Jabiru Field, discovered in 1983, was the first commercial oilfield found in the western Timor Sea area of the Bonaparte Basin. Production commenced in 1986....
Polycyclic Rifting – An Interpretation of Gravity and Magnetics in the North West Shelf
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: V. Anfiloff
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Marine gravity surveys of the North West Shelf by the BMR between 1965 and 1968 provide a good indication of the tectonic framework. In most areas, gravity trends generally agree with seismic trends. In the Browse Basin, prominent linear gravity high...
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
Abstract:
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 ...
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
Abstract:
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...
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
Abstract:
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...
The Geophysicists’ Bane: Multiple Suppression on the North West Shelf
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: C.R.T. Ramsden, M.R. Hobson and R. Cooper
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
A major geophysical problem on the North West Shelf of Australia is the presence of strong multiple noise trains that often mask or interfere with the primary reflectors. Besides the strong waterbottom and peg-leg multiples, the problem is compounded...
A Case Study of the Development of a Seismic Streamer for Use in the Timor Sea
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: P. Grant, J. Rasidi and I. Ward
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
In recent years the geophysical industry has changed from analogue cables to digital marine streamers, with an increase in the number of the groups and the corresponding fold of coverage. Unfortunately this change has not always provided the commensu...
Shallow Water Seismic Operations on the North West Shelf
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: T.J. Allen, D. Brown and J. Wardell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
The North West Shelf includes large areas with water depths less than 20 m, and which require specialised
shallow water seismic surveying procedures. A shallowwater crew operating in the area during late 1987-early
1988 collected approximately 4000 k...
Source Maturity, Overpressures and Production, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: The North West Shelf Australia
- Authors: E.L. Horstman
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: July 1988
Abstract:
Empirically, oil and gas production on the North West Shelf of Australia is related to the presence of
overpressured section. In turn overpressure can be related to hydrocarbon generation.
Comparison of the depth of the oil window and the top of the ...