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Recent exploration in PEPs 109 and 110, onshore Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: S.R. Greaves
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Lithostratigraphic and depositional architecture of the Latrobe Group, offshore Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: J.M. Bodard, V.J. Wall and R.A. Kanen
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Sediments making up the Upper Cretaceous-Eocene Latrobe Group in the offshore part of the Gippsland Basin comprise a thick amalgamated sequence of arenites, siltstones, variably carbonaceous mudstones, common coal beds and minor volcanics. The nature...
Sandstone porosity patterns in the Latrobe Group, offshore Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: J.M. Bodard and V.J. Wall
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Examination of sonic, density and neutron log-derived porosities for Latrobe Group sandstones in fifty-two offshore Gippsland Basin wells reveals three zones of variation in vertical porosity profiles: 1) an upper zone (up to 600 m thick), character...
The West Seahorse and Seahouse Fields: fluvial, lacustrine and deltaic deposition in the Eocene Latrobe Group, Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: M.A. Battrick
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Seismic-stratigraphic interpretation of coastal barrier systems of Late Eocene age, offshore Gippsland Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: R. Blake
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Three seismic-stratigraphic sequences were mapped within the uppermost Latrobe Group at the western
end of the offshore Gippsland Basin. The three sequences are interpreted to be Upper Eocene coastal barrier complexes deposited under conditions of lo...
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...
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 ...
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...
The Cretaceous vegetation, and palaeoenvironment of Otway Group sediments
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: J. G. Douglas
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Fossil assemblages (principally plants) in the Early Cretaceous non-marine and later Cretaceous marginal
marine sediments of the Otway Basin, south-eastern Australia, are examined. Their usefulness for alaeoenvironmental, palaeoclimate and source roc...
Recovery of oil from the basal Tertiary Pebble Point Formation at Lindon No. 1 – summary, results and implications
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: A. Tabassi and L.K. Davey
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Although oil fluorescence has been reported in the basal Tertiary Pebble Point Formation in two wells in the Port Campbell Embayment of the Otway Basin, no other positive indications had been encountered in this formation prior to drilling Lindon No....
Bass Basin geology and petroleum exploration
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: G.C. Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The Bass Basin is an intracratonic rift basin located offshore between Victoria and Tasmania. The tectonosedimentary history is controlled by Otway rifting between Australia and Antarctica and to a lesser extent by Tasman Sea rifting. A Lower Cretace...
Subsidence and maturation history of the Bass Basin from geohistory calculations
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: P.E. Williamson and C.J. Pigram
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Geohistory analysis of 16 wells from the Bass Basin was carried out as part of BMR's Bass Strait Project.
This study was undertaken to investigate the thermal and subsidence history of the basin in relation to its
depositional history, structural for...
Diagenesis and porosity in the Eastern View Group, Bass Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: G.F.J. Meszoly, J.M. Bodard and V.J. Wall
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The Upper Cretaceous to Upper Eocene Eastern View Group, in the Bass Basin of southeastern Australia, is an amalgamation of terrestrial quartz-rich siliciclastics comprising interbedded coal-mudstones, siltstones and sandstones that have undergone a ...
The coal basins of western New Zealand – an introduction
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: P. G. Purcell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Cretaceous-Lower Tertiary coal measures in west central New Zealand include the Pororari Group (Albian), the Paparoa Group (Maastrichtian-Paleocene), the Pakawau Group (Maastrichtian-Eocene) and the Brunner Coal Measures and Kapuni Group (EoceneEarly...
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...
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...
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...
A comparison of hydrocarbon plays in the Bass, Gippsland, Otway and Taranaki Basins
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: J.K. Davidson and K.C. Morrison
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
A modified version of the Global Basin Classification (Kingston et al., 1983) can be used to identify the geological controls of hydrocarbon plays in, and between, sedimentary basins. The input data are descriptive, requiring minimal interpretation w...
Non-petroleum gas accumulations, Gippsland, Bass and Otway Basins
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: S. Ozimic
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The Mesozoic and Tertiary sequences of the Gippsland, Bass and Otway Basins contain concentrations of non-petroleum gases, principally carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulphide and helium, ranging in purity from trace to 98.9 per cent. Normally the...
Tertiary stratigraphic palynology of the Murray Basin
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: H.A. Martin
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The palynology of the Upper Eocene to Middle Miocene sediments of the Murray Basin fits the accepted scheme of zonation but the scheme does not give sufficient stratigraphic control, especially in thick sections which fall within the one zone. A meth...
The west Tasmanian margin: an underrated petroleum province?
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: K. Hinz, J.B. Willcox, M. Whiticar, H.-R. Kudrass, N.F. Exon and D.A. Feary
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Recent multichannel seismic and sampling cruises of the West German research vessel Sonne have enabled us to reassess the petroleum potential of the west Tasmanian margin. The seismic stratigraphy is directly related to that of Otway Basin, and is da...
Seismic stratigraphy and crustal structure of offshore Wilkes Land, Antarctica
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: H.M.J. Stagg, J.J. Veevers, S.L. Eittreim and J.R. Childs
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Multichannel seismic and other geophysical data from the Wilkes Land continental margin reveal that continental crust thins oceanwards by extension in fault-blocks of the lowermost strata. Near the mid Cretaceous continent-ocean boundary, the contine...
The role of coal as a source rock for oil
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: A.C. Cook and H. Struckmeyer
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Until recently, most authors have dismissed coal as a potential source for hydrocarbons other than methane. This has been either on the grounds that coals are incapable of generating hydrocarbons other than methane or, that such alkanes, if generated...
The generation and release of hydrocarbons from Victorian brown coal lithotypes
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: D. Rigby, T.D. Gilbert, B.D. Batts and J.W. Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Victorian brown coal lithotypes have been subjected to solvent extraction, hydrogenation and hydrous pyrolysis in order to study the mechanism of hydrocarbon formation and release. The results suggest that the generation of liquid hydrocarbons from p...
The limitations of seismic modelling of geological structures
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: B.L.N. Kennett
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
Seismic wave-field modelling for reflection seismic studies can be used in a number of ways to aid with exploration work, at both the survey and interpretation stages. However, effective use of such techniques requires an understanding of their limit...
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...
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 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...
Regional evaluation of the tectonic and thermal history of the Gippsland Region
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: K.A. Hegarty, I.R. Duddy, P.F. Green, A.J.W. Gleadow, I. Fraser and J.K. Weissel
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The subsidence history at several locations within the Gippsland Basin is reconstructed using biostratigraphic
and lithostratigraphic data from onshore and offshore wells. Four distinct Zones which correspond to different patterns of subsidence are i...
Barracouta: history of exploration and development, and geology of the field
- Publication Name: Second South-Eastern Australia Oil Exploration Symposium - Technical Papers
- Authors: G.H. Roder and M.W. Sloan
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1986
Abstract:
The Barracouta Field represents a bench-mark in Australia's oil and gas industry. The Barracouta 'Top of Latrobe' gas, in Upper Eocene fluvio-deltaic sands, was Australia's first discovered commercial offshore hydrocarbon accumulation. The discovery ...