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President’s Page
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 6
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1985
Recent Oil And Gas Litigation – Issues And Lessons
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 6
- Authors: ANDREW G THOMPSON
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1985
News Of Members And Branches
- Publication Name: PESA Journal No. 6
- Reference Type: Journal Article
- Date Published: March 1985
Geochemistry of Some Canning Basin Crude Oils
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: R. Alexander, M. Cumbers and R.I. Kagi
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Crude oil samples from Blina, Meda, and Great Sandy wells have been subjected to detailed chemical analysis using gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The results have been interpreted in terms of thermal maturity of source be...
The Tectonic Development of Gregory Sub-Basin and Adjacent Areas, Northeastern Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Greg Smith
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The Gregory Sub-Basin and adjacent areas cover an area of some 60,000 square kilometres in the northeastern
Canning Basin. Early Ordovician to Triassic sediment thickness ranges up to or in excess of 15,000 metres in the depocentres of the Gregory Su...
Exploration for Primary Diamond Deposits with Special Emphasis on the Lennard Shelf, W.A.
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: G.P. Gregory
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Economic primary deposits of diamond to date have only been found in kimberlite and olivine lamproite. Economic kimberlites are concentrated in areas underlain by cratons older than 2500 m.y. They occur in clusters, whose location is controlled by fu...
Regional Geology of the Onshore Canning Basin, W.A. (Keynot Paper)
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: A.N. Yeates, D.L. Gibson, R.R. Towner and R.W.A. Crowe
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The 430,000 sq. km onshore segment of the Phanerozoic Canning Basin lies mainly within the Great Sandy and Gibson Deserts. Reconnaissance mapping combined with subsurface data reveals that the basin contains up to 18 km of shallow marine, paralic and...
The Geological Evolution of the Canning Basin – Implication for Petroleum Exploration
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: S.A. Brown, I.M. Boserio, K.S. Jackson and K.W. Spence
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The northern Canning Basin contains a large northwest-trending rift, the Fitzroy Graben, which is flanked by down-faulted and tilted basement blocks. The rift is bounded on its southern margin by the remnants of a pre-rift arch of shallow basement. T...
Oil Migration in the Northern Canning Basin – A Regional Review
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: E.J. (Ted) Ellyard
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Oil generation and migration in the Fitzroy Trough and adjacent shelf regions of the northern Canning Basin has been reviewed. Optical maturity indicators were used to define the maturity versus depth relationship at well locations between Lake Betty...
The Role of Seismic in Play Type and Prospect Development: Eastern Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Ted Jacobson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The eastern part of the Canning Basin covers an area of 125,000 square kilometres. Because of its remoteness
from the coast, this area remained relatively unexplored as late as 1980. This remoteness, together with poor
seismic data, held back the ide...
Uranium Exploration in the Canning Basin: A Case Study
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Peter Botten
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
AFMECO Pty.Ltd. carried out an extensive exploration programme for uranium mineralisation in the northern
Canning Basin between 1978 and 1983. A major reconnaissance programme was conducted over several years to provide basic geological information a...
Pressure Responses (Deformation) in Carbonate Sediments and Rocks Analysis and Application, Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Brian W. Logan
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Carbonate rocks deform readily in temperature fields below 250?C and, many sequences are therefore dominated by textures, structures and rock types that are products of stress. This paper draws attention to deformational features in Canning Basin car...
Development of Exploration Philosophies in the Onshore Canning Basin and the Need for a Pragmatic Approach
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: M.A. Reynolds and A.J. Flavelle
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
This paper reviews the progress in development of geological ideas in the search for petroleum since the discovery of traces of oil in the Canning Basin in 1919, and the various factors which have influenced exploration
since then.
The introduction o...
Fission Track Dating and Thermal History Analysis of Apatites from Wells in the North-West Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: A.J.W. Gleadow and I.R. Duddy
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Fission track dating of detrital apatites recovered from sediments in hydrocarbon exploration wells in the northwestern Canning Basin shows two distinct trends in apatite annealing behaviour. One trend is the normal
reduction in fission track length ...
Geology and Petroleum Potential of the Southern Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: J. Conolly, M. Falvey, D. Kingsley, B. Melton and T. Russell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Only 10 wildcat wells and 7 stratigraphic wells have been drilled in the South Canning Basin where encouraging oil and gas shows occur throughout the Paleozoic sequence. Palaeogeographic reconstructions are made from this well data for the mid to upp...
Comparison and Geologic Interpretation of Alternative Dipmeter Analyses from a Permo-Carboniferous Sequence in the Fitzroy Graben
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Barry A. Goldstein and John J. Hubbard
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The acquisition of both HDT and SHDT measurements through 710m of Permo-Carboniferous siliciclastics in the Fitzroy Graben provides the opportunity to compare results of alternative dipmeter analyses.
Based on comparisons to cores and seismic interpr...
The Stratigraphy, Palaeogeography and Petroleum Potential of the Lower to lower Upper Devonian Sequence in the Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: P.R. Lehmann
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Devonian reefs provided much of the early incentive to Canning Basin explorers. Extensive studies of the Devonian Reef Complex in outcrop, related by analogy to the very productive time equivalent reefs in Canada produced great expectations for the r...
Igneous Intrusions in the North-West Canning Basin and their Impact on Oil Exploration
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: S.A. Reeckmann and A.J. Mebberson
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Igneous intrusions dated as Late Carboniferous to Jurassic, but believed to be Permian in age, have been
intersected by six wells in the north-west Canning Basin. Both seismic and magnetic interpretation suggest these
intrusions are common over a lar...
Petroleum Geology of EP’s 205 & 252 – South Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Eve A. Howell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
EP's 205 and 252 cover a relatively unexplored area of 30,000 square kilometres in the Southern Canning Basin. To date, no wells have been drilled in either permit, subsurface data therefore being limited to reconnaissance
gravity and magnetic survey...
Slim Hole Drilling in the Canning Basin Philosophy and Application
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Simon M. Ashton
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Western Mining Corporation Limited is the operator on behalf of itself, Poseidon Oil Limited and Australian
Hydrocarbons N .L. in petroleum exploration permit areas (EP) 143 and 225 in the central Canning Basin. The area is remote and was virtually u...
Geology of the Blina Oilfield
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: H.T. Moors, W.E. Gardner and J. Davis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The discovery of the Blina Field, after a long period of disappointment, has proved the potential of the Canning
Basin to contain commercial sized oil accumulations. Although not large, the Blina Field has shown that geological conditions for generat...
Evidence for Post-Permian Epeirogenic Uplift in the Canning Basin from Vitrinite Reflectance Data
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: E.L. Horstman
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Vitrinite reflectance data can be used to determine the original depth of burial in an uplifted and exhumed section. With sufficient density of well data, a projection. of the existing vitrinite reflectance data to an original,
now eroded, surface ca...
Petroleum Geology of the Central Broome Platform
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Joanna Bentley
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The Broome Platform is a major faulted basement ridge which separates the Fitzroy Trough and the southern Canning sub-basins. In the EP 175 area Ordovician basal sands, platform carbonates and shales rest on basement and are overlain by an undated ev...
Structural Observations of the Canning Basin by NOAA-AVHRR Satellite Imagery
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: P. Wilson, I.J. Tapley, F.R. Honey
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Digital enhancement of daytime reflected and nighttime thermal imagery from the NOAA-A VHRR satellite series has highlighted the presence of abundant macroscopic geologic structures traversing the major geologic regions of Western Australia. The magn...
The Gravity Field of the Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Vadim Anfiloff
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Gravity exploration in the Canning Basin began in 1953 and resulted in large concentrations of detailed traverses in some areas. BMR helicopter reconnaissance surveys began in 1960, and marine surveys were carried out in 1968. The quality of the cove...
Interpretation of Additional Conodont Colour Alteration Data and the Thermal Maturation and Geothermal History of the Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Robert S, Nicoll and John D. Gorter
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Examination of conodont colour alteration (CAl) in samples from 59 petroleum exploration wells and extensive
outcrop collections along the northern margin of the Lennard Shelf forms the basis for a study of the thermal maturation and geothermal histo...
A Prospective Nita Formation Reservoir Trend on the Broome Platform
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: J. Karajas and C.N. Kernick
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The Broome Platform in the Canning Basin contains a prospective dolomite reservoir trend in the Ordovician Nita Formation. Eagle's Aquila No. 1 penetrated approximately 30 metres net of reservoir beds in the top of the formation. Core-derived porosit...
Possible Major Diapiric Structures in the Southern Canning and Northern Officer Basins
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: J. Craig, J.W. Downey, A. D. Gibbs and J.R. Russell
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The lithology of the Precambrian basement beneath much of the Canning Basin is uncertain, and can only be inferred from geophysical data. The latter suggests that a thick sequence of Precambrian sedimentary rocks exists along an approximately east-we...
Significance of Airborne Magnetic and Gamma Spectrometric Anomalies over the Eastern Margin of the Canning Basin
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: D.H. Tucker, M. Bacchin and R. Almond
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
The BMR 1980 regional airborne survey used 1500m line spacing and 150m continuous ground clearance and
provides new detail of both short and long wavelength magnetic anomalies, not evident in earlier wide line spacing constant altitude surveys over t...
Palynostratigraphy of the Late Carboniferous Sequence, Canning Basin, W.A.
- Publication Name: The Canning Basin, W.A.
- Authors: Gary D. Powis
- Reference Type: Book Section
- Date Published: December 1984
Abstract:
Six palynological assemblages from Namurian to Early Permian strata are briefly described together with their relative stratigraphic positions. They include a new Westphalian assemblage, the Diatomozonotriletes birkheadensis Assemblage whose nominate...