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Compressional evolution of the PNG margin from an orogenic transect from Juha to the Sepik
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Kevin Hill, Luke Mahoney
- Date Published: February 2018
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A crustal-scale, fully restored section across the PNG orogenic belt reveals the Oligocene to Recent compressional deformation of the margin. The northern end of the section comprises the Landslip Metamorphics, an accreted continental terrane, separa...
Automatic Fracture Identification using X-ray Images
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Ankita Singh, Xiao Lu, Ryan Armstrong, Peyman Mostaghimi
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
Coal seams are characterised as highly anisotropic and heterogeneous geological formations with extremely low porosity and permeability at reservoir conditions. Despite the advances in digital rock physics with the introduction of micro-computed tomo...
The effect of flexural isostasy on delta architecture: implications for the Mungaroo Formation
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Sara Morón, Tristan Salles, Stephen Gallagher, Louis Moresi
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
The fluvio-deltaic Triassic Mungaroo Formation, North West Shelf (NWS) of Australia, hosts vast resources of hydrocarbons. However, the mechanisms that generated its 4-6 km monotonous infill architecture (colloquially known as layer cake stratigraphy...
Geomechanical prestack depth migration of the Kraken 3D (Browse Basin, Australia)
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Jarrod Dunne, Matthew Zengerer, Hamish Stein, Stephen Gallagher, Ferudun Kilic, Pramod Kumar, Shiv Pujan Singh
- Date Published: February 2018
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Conventional pre-stack depth migration applied to the broadband Kraken 3D Marine Seismic Survey was unable to fully resolve shortwavelength velocity anomalies below the sea floor causing obvious imaging problems and limiting depth conversion and ampl...
Depositional, diagenetic and mineralogical controls on porosity development in the Ungani Field, Canning Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: June Then, Moyra E.J. Wilson, Iain Copp, Maja Buschkuehle, Ronell Carey
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
A 75 m-thick section of Early Carboniferous Tournaisian Ungani Dolomite reservoir was continuously cored in Ungani Far West 1, an appraisal well 3 km west of the Ungani field located on the southern flank of the Fitzroy Tough in the Canning Basin. Th...
INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE SHALLOW GAS ACCUMULATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH POCKMARKS ON THE OTAGO SLOPE SOUTHEAST OF NEW ZEALAND
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Jasper Hoffmann, Andrew Gorman, Gareth Crutchley
- Date Published: February 2018
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High-resolution ‘boomer’ seismic data, together with an industrial 3D seismic dataset indicate the possible presence of shallow gas in the vicinity of the Waitaki Canyon, SE of New Zealand’s South Island. Crescent-shaped seafloor depressions ar...
A New Computational Model to Predict Breakdown Pressures in Cased and Perforated Wells in Unconventional Reservoirs
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Mohammed Kurdi, Hamid Roshan
- Date Published: February 2018
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Unconventional shale reservoirs are characterised by their extreme low permeabilities and their high in-situ stresses. Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing therefore plays a key role in developing such reservoirs. However, depending on the in-situ stress...
What we know, what we don’t know, and things we do not know we don’t know about hydraulic fracturing in high stress environments
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Raymond L. Johnson, Jr.
- Date Published: February 2018
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Hydraulic fracturing in many Australian Basins, particularly the Cooper Basin has been successful in higher permeability, structured conventional plays. However, adaptation of North American strategies to Australia’s complex, and highly stressed un...
Shelf-margin architecture and shoreline processes at the shelfedge: Controls on sediment partitioning and prediction of deepwater deposition style
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Victorien Paumard, Julien Bourget, Tobi Payenberg, Bruce Ainsworth, Simon Lang, Henry W. Posamentier, Annette D. George
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Lower Barrow Group (LBG; Latest Tithonian – Early Valanginian) is a shelf-margin that prograded during a late phase of rifting under various subsidence regimes and supply-dominated conditions. A 3D semi-automatic, full-volume seismic interpreta...
MESOZOIC TO CENOZOIC DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS & FLUID MIGRATION WITHIN THE CASWELL SUB-BASIN: KEY INSIGHTS FROM NEW INTERPRETATION & MODELLING OF THE SCHILD PHASE 2 3D
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Jarrad Grahame
- Date Published: February 2018
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CGG Multi-Client & New Ventures have undertaken new interpretation and modelling, including stratal slicing and attribute analysis on the Schild Phase 2 3D located 170km off the north-west coast of Australia within the Caswell Sub-basin. The key obje...
Tectonic and Geodynamic Evolution of the Northern Australian Margin and New Guinea
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Joanna Tobin, Dr. Sabin Zahirovic, Dr. Rakib Hassan, A/Prof. Patrice Rey
- Date Published: February 2018
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Rapid convergence between the Indo-Australian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific plates in the Cenozoic has resulted in a complex tectonic evolution of Australia’s northern margin. A lack of available geologic data leads to large uncertainties, such as ...
FRACCING ONSHORE AUSTRALIA
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Max Williamson
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
Recent history has seen major inquiries in the Senate and under the control of several State and Territory
Governments where one aspect involved the oil exploration technique of fraccing. ...
An optimised Hydraulic Fracturing Treatment on Challenging Rizq Field
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Muhammad Asad Pirzada, Hamid Roshan, Faisal Saleem, Abdul Haseeb, Mohammed Kurdi
- Date Published: February 2018
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Hydrocarbon production from unconventional reservoirs is often associated with hydraulic fracturing operations. In many cases however, the high in-situ stresses and complex natural fracture network hinder an effective stimulation process. Therefore, ...
LAUREL GAS PLAY, CANNING BASIN – RECENT STRATIGRAPHIC LEARNINGS
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Simon Sturrock, Mark Devereux, Keith Martens, June Then, Fionna McNee, David Long
- Date Published: February 2018
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Well, core and seismic data from the Lennard Shelf and Fitzroy Trough were integrated to produce a predictive sequence stratigraphic framework of the Laurel Formation consisting of Lower, Middle and Upper depositional sequences.
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Next Generation Reservoir Engineering
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Klaus Regenauer-Lieb, Thomas Poulet, Manolis Veveakis, Hamid Roshan, Xiao Chen
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
We present a fundamental physics based understanding of the chemical, mechanical, thermal and hydrological processes and their interactions that operate over long-time scales to form and characterise the porosity/fracture networks in conventional and...
Organic geochemistry and petroleum potential of Permian outcrop and core samples from the southern Sydney Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Simon C. George, Shirin Baydjanova, Bronwyn C. Campbell, Brave Manda
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
Permian sediments occur throughout the southern Sydney Basin, exposed on the coastline south of Wollongong, and penetrated by various boreholes. This study uses outcrop samples and samples from three boreholes held by NSW Resources and Energy at the ...
The Permian and Carboniferous extensional history of the Northern Carnarvon Basin and its influence on Mesozoic extension
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Sam McHarg, Amy I’Anson, Chris Elders
- Date Published: February 2018
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The North-West Shelf of Australia is a marginal rift system related principally to the fragmentation of Gondwana. PermianCarboniferous structures along the margin have long been recognised as fundamental events responsible for the formation of the of...
Seismic diffraction imaging for improved coal structure detection in complex geological environments
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Binzhong Zhou, Weijia Sun
- Date Published: February 2018
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To provide a “no major surprises” guarantee of coal seam conditions, reflection seismic surveying is often used for delineation of faults and dykes that have the potential to disrupt underground coal mining operations. Although reflection seismic...
Petroleum Plays of the Bowen and Surat basins
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Alison Troup, Neal Longdon, Justin Gorton
- Date Published: February 2018
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The plays of the Bowen and Surat basins consist of conventional structural plays along major regional structures and depositional platforms, most of which have some stratigraphic component. These can be subdivided into three main regions: the eastern...
Evolution of “Tres Hombres” – A Mid-crustal Dome Structure within the Jurassic Northern Beagle Sub-basin Western Australia: An Integrated Geophysical Investigation
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Gerry O’Halloran, Chris Paschke, Craig Dempsey, Chris Hurren, Robert Scott, Guimin Liu
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Tres Hombres structure is a large mid-crustal structural feature that that underlies the Permian – Late Jurassic mega-sequences of the Northern Beagle Sub-basin, Western Australia. Originally identified on regional 2D seismic lines, the Tres Ho...
Predicting Structural Permeability in the Deep Coal Play, Tirrawarra-Gooranie fields, Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Bowker, C.J., Camac, B.A., Fraser, S.A
- Date Published: February 2018
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A 2D numerical stress modelling study was conducted for the Tirrawarra-Gooranie oil and gas field in the Cooper Basin, which produces from a mixture of conventional and non-conventional (deep coal) reservoirs. The aim of this study is to understand t...
TARGETING CORE SAMPLING WITH MACHINE LEARNING: CASE STUDY FROM THE SPRINGBOK SANDSTONE, SURAT BASIN
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Oliver Gaede, Mitchell Levy
- Date Published: February 2018
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We show how clustering algorithms can ensure that the core intervals that are pertinent to specific objectives of a sampling campaign are actually sampled. We also show how clusters can be validated prior to sampling with auxiliary data not used for ...
Interpretation of a Permian conjugate basin margin preserved on the outer Northwest Shelf of Australia
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Christopher A. Paschke, Gerard O’Halloran, Craig Dempsey, Christopher Hurren
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
The Northwest Shelf (NWS) of Australia is characterized as a series of northeast-southwest trending Mesozoic offshore depocenters which both juxtapose and partially overprint a series of onshore, northwest-southeast trending Palaeozoic basins. An int...
Tectonics and geodynamics of the eastern Tethys and northern Gondwana since the Jurassic
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Sabin Zahirovic, Kara Matthews, Ting Yang, Nicolas Flament, Daniela Garrad, Gilles Brocard, Jeremy Iwanec, Kevin Hill, Michael Gurnis, Rakib Hassan, Maria Seton, R Dietmar Müller
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
Southeast Asia experienced a complex tectonic and geodynamic history related to the subduction of the eastern Tethyan ocean basins, resulting from the long-term convergence between the Indo-Australian, Eurasian, and Pacific plates since Pangea breaku...
Integration of Downhole Geophysical and Lithological Data from Coal Exploration Drill Holes
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Brett J Larkin
- Date Published: February 2018
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This current study has successfully managed to develop algorithms to automatically determine both coal/non-coal and clayey/nonclayey boundaries based on the gradients and inflection points of the geophysical logs and then integrate this information w...
Borehole gravity in Horizontal Wells.
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Andrew J. Black, Jennifer Hare
- Date Published: February 2018
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Gravity can now be measured practically anywhere a drill hole can go. This extends our ability to perform 3D and 4D gravity mapping of the sub-surface with applications in the energy and mineral sectors....
DISCOVERY THROUGH THE AGES – A JOURNEY OF COAL RESOURCE DISCOVERY IN QUEENSLANDS BOWEN BASIN FROM THE 1960’s and The 2000’s
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Darren Walker, Lex Hansen
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
Exploration methods, technology and equipment may have changed greatly over the last few decades but still does not replace sound geological principles in making new coal resource discoveries. Starting with a case history of the early big discoveries...
Controls on Mesozoic rift-related uplift and syn-extensional sedimentation in the Exmouth Plateau
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Hayley Rohead-O’Brien, Chris Elders
- Date Published: February 2018
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The Exmouth Plateau, part of the Northern Carnarvon Basin, has experienced a multi-phase extensional history, which is associated with regional-scale uplift, as well the uplift and erosion of individual footwall blocks. Detailed interpretation of 3D ...
Towards understanding phosphorus distribution in coal: A case study from the Bowen Basin
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Brooke Davis, Sandra Rodrigues, Joan Esterle
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
In coal, phosphorus can occur in a variety of minerals but apatite Ca5(PO4)3 (OH, F, Cl) is the most common. This mineral is often observed within the cell-lumens (<20 microns) of inertinite macerals, although fracture infilling apatite has been repo...
MAPPING NORTHERN AUSTRALIA’S PRESENT DAY STRESS FIELD: THE CANNING BASIN
- Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
- Authors: Adam Bailey, Paul Henson
- Date Published: February 2018
Abstract:
The Canning Basin of Western Australia has recently become a site of interest for unconventional hydrocarbons, with several formations within deeper basin depocentres being investigated for resources. Modern petroleum resource evaluation is generally...