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Photograph Section
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 11
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: September 1987
Letters to the Editor
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 11
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: September 1987
The APEA Column: Environmental Considerations and The Oil Industry
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 11
- Authors: Keith Orchison
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: September 1987
Call for Historical Material
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: R. Wilkinson
- Date Published: March 1987
Abstract:
New book project: An 'eyewitness' account of Australia's oil exploration. ...
GEOLOGICAL MACROPHOTOGRAPHY OF FLAT SURFACES BY ELECTRONIC FLASH
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: C. H. Conor
- Date Published: March 1987
Abstract:
Presentation of visual geological data is very important at a scale comparable to that most commonly used for observation (i.e. x 1 to x 10). Described is a method using simple, portable, inexpensive 35 mm photographic equipment which produces high q...
The Oil and Gas Correspondent: Wheeling and Dealing in Oil and Gas
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: B. FitzGerald
- Date Published: March 1987
Abstract:
The collapse in oil prices proved to be the stimulus for an increase in takeovers and rationalisation amongst Australia's oil and gas producers particularly during the second half of 1986. ...
THE QUEENSLAND DEPARTMENT OF MINES – The Geological Survey of Queensland: its evolution and functions
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: A.R.G. Gray
- Date Published: March 1987
YEARS OF DRAMATIC CHANGE – THE GROWTH IN EXPERTISE IN AUSTRALIAN OIL EXPLORATION 1950-1986
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: M.H. Johnstone
- Date Published: March 1987
Abstract:
The low world price for oil has had a serious effect on the oil exploration industry in Australia. We have had to reassess the economic viability of many of our exploration and development prospects, and revise our estimates of the minimum size of wh...
LESSONS OF THE WORLD OIL PRICE COLLAPSE
- Publication Name: PESA Journal
- Authors: J.M. Leigh
- Date Published: March 1987
Abstract:
During the short time which has elapsed since this paper was presented at a PESA luncheon, a series of events have occurred which should help to restore a measure of stability to the oil industry - at least during 1987. The dramatic dismissal of Saud...
Photograph Page
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
The APEA Column
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Authors: KEITH ORCHISON
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
News Of Members And Branches
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
PESA Membership List
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
Notice For Contributors
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
President’s Page
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Authors: DICK PATEN
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
Letters To The Editor
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
PESA Journal No 10, March 1987
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Authors: DICK PATEN, JOHN R HAMER, KEITH ORCHISON, MURRAY H JOHNSTONE, JOHN M LEIGH, MAX WILLIAMSON, COLIN H CONOR, BARRY FITZGERALD
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
Cover Story
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Authors: JOHN R HAMER
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
Index To Advertisers In This Issue
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
Petroleum Resource Rent Tax
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 10
- Authors: MAX WILLIAMSON
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1987
Offshore Gippsland Silver Jubilee
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: B. R. Brown
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
During the past twenty-five years, since BHP acquired the Victorian offshore permits PEP 38 and PEP 39, over 71,000 km of seismic data have been collected and 136 exploration and appraisal wells drilled excluding junked wells. BHP and Esso have colle...
A history of the search for commercial hydrocarbons in the Otway Basin complex
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: R.C. Sprigg
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Botryococcus algal scums (coorongite) on sub-coastal lagoons and offshore oil seeps, resulting in the stranding
of 'coastal bitumen' at not infrequent intervals along the southern Australian coasts, initiated the first oil drilling in Australia in 18...
Establishing the elusive paleo-play – a case study of the Kahurangi Fault Zone, Southern Taranaki, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: B.A. Sissons and R.D. Walsh
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Main hydrocarbon sources and reservoirs within the Taranaki Basin are Upper Cretaceous through Lower Tertiary fluvial to paralic sediments deposited in and around fault-angle depressions associated with the breakaway of New Zealand from eastern Austr...
The ‘Geoseis’ system: seismic prospecting with detonating cord – a line energy source
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: D.W. Thompson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The 'Geoseis' system is a surface energy source developed by ICI to suit Australian conditions. It provides an economic method of seismic prospecting and overcomes the problems associated with drilling techniques. Utilizing strands of 'Geoflex' or Re...
Tectonic development of Victoria’s Otway Basin – a seismic interpretation
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: M. Megallaa
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
This paper is essentially an extract from the author's contribution in a recent appraisal of regional seismic
mapping in the Victorian sector of the Otway Basin by the Department of Industry, Technology and Resources
(Megallaa, in press). Geological ...
Evolution of the Karamea Basin, West Coast, South Island, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: H. McQuillan
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The complex tectonic evolution of the South Island portion of New Zealand's West Coast Cretaceous through Tertiary sedimentary basin has resulted in the formation of a series of discrete sub-basins. Most hydrocarbon exploration effort to date has bee...
Hydrological anomalies and hydrocarbon exploration
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: C.I. Sharpe and R.J.W. McLaughlin
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Hydrocarbons may be present in groundwaters above a hydrocarbon reservoir and several factors have been identified that influence the extent of hydrocarbon seepage through the intervening cap rock. The analysis of trace amounts of heavy fraction hydr...
The Portland Trough, Otway Basin – geology and petroleum potential
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: G.R. Hodgate, G.H. Mackay and G.C. Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The Portland Trough in the central Otway Basin contains over 2.5 km of Tertiary sediments (two-thirds Wangerrip Group, one-third Heytesbury-Nirranda Groups). They unconformably overlie a similarly thick but largely undrilled Upper Cretaceous sediment...
Late Mesozoic – Cenozoic trans – Tasman tectonics: evidence from the Gippsland and Taranaki Basins
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: P.R. Evans
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Generally accepted reconstructions of the Australian, Antarctic and related cratonic plates adjacent to the southwest Pacific in pre-Late Cretaceous times place the Gippsland Basin, southeast Australia, and the Taranaki Basin of western New Zealand o...
The Gippsland Basin – development and stratigraphy
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: B.R. Thompson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The Gippsland Basin is a post-Early Cretaceous and hydrocarbons within a 4500 m thick sedimentary pile. Tectonic activity in the Late Cretaceous resulted in the formation of a narrow graben over an infilled. Early Cretaceous rift and gradually enlar...