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The Gobe Field, PNG; Influence of Basement Architecture on Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Style
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Armelle Kloppenburg, Kevin C. Hill
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The Gobe oil- and gas-field is part of the 25 km long Gobe Anticline in the hangingwall of the Gobe Thrust, located at the SE end of the Papuan Fold Belt, Papua New Guinea. This area was subjected to rifting during the Jurassic with large offsets acr...
Regional Assessment of the Toolebuc Formation: A Shale Oil Play in Southwest Queensland
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: A. Troup, S. Edwards, B. Talebi, M. Preda
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
A regional assessment of the Toolebuc Formation has been conducted to evaluate its potential as a shale oil target. This formation shares many characteristics with successful shale oil plays located in the United States of America. This study has foc...
Construction of 2D and 3D Models of the Kutubu Oilfield, Papua New Guinea Fold Belt
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Louise Munro, Kevin Hill, Ruth Wightman
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The Kutubu Field in the jungle-covered mountains of PNG, comprises the Hedinia Anticline containing mainly gas and the oil-bearing Iagifu Anticline. Together they hold significant reserves of gas and have produced well over 300MMBBL oil from a basal ...
Basin Screening for Seal Rock Quality – New Zealand Region
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: B.D. Field, D.P. Strogen, H.D. Zhu, T.R. Sahoo, A.G. Griffin, M.J.F. Lawrence, C. Martin, R. McDonnell, K. Jones, R. Daniel
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
This study provides the first New Zealand-wide assessment of the hydrocarbon seal rock potential of twenty sedimentary basins and is designed to help evaluate pre-drill seal risk assessment. Seal rock quality has been assessed using key petroleum wel...
Innovative 3D Reservoir Characterisation in the Papua New Guinea Fold Belt
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: G. Boyd, V. Donagemma, J. McPherson, M. Dubsky, Y. Sun, S. Barclay
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The area of interest for this study covers the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Highlands Fold Belt from P’nyang Field in the North-West to Iehi Field in the South-East. The main sequences studied include the primary reservoir units: Iagifu, Hedinia and Digi...
Facies Distribution and Impact on Petroleum Migration in the Canterbury Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: T.R. Sahoo, K.F. Kroeger, G. Thrasher, S. Munday, H. Mingard, N. Cozens, M. Hill
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The Canterbury Basin is one of the frontier basins of New Zealand and is under active exploration in multiple permits. Sub-commercial gas and condensate discoveries suggest that it has a working petroleum system. Presence and distribution of petroleu...
Seismic and Well Interpretation of Fluvial Clastic and Coal Packages for Stratigraphic Traps Within the Patchawarra Formation, Cooper Basin
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: C. Webb
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
Several stratigraphic traps have been discovered within the Permian-aged Patchawarra Formation on the western flank of the Cooper Basin. These traps contain gas within fluvial sandstones deposited within a sequence of mixed clastic and coal beds. A s...
New Interpretation and Modelling Results for Large Scale Neogene Channel and Fan Systems: Implications for Hydrocarbon Prospectivity, Deepwater Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: J. Grahame
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The deep-water Taranaki Basin, located off the northwest coast of New Zealand, is an underexplored, frontier area with one recent exploration well and limited 2D seismic coverage. The basin developed through multiple tectonic cycles, including Mesozo...
The Mananda Anticline, Papua New Guinea; A Third Oil Discovery, Appraisal Programme and Deep Potential
- Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
- Authors: Scott Keenan, Kevin Hill
- Date Published: September 2015
Abstract:
The Mananda Anticline is one of the larger structures in the Papuan Fold Belt at 40 km long, 15 km wide and up to 2000m high (Figure 1.a). It is over 20 km from the nearest road and airstrip, is deeply karstified, covered in equatorial jungle and is ...
CO2 storage prospectivity of the offshore Vlaming Sub-basin – evaluating containment
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Irina BORISSOVA, George BERNARDEL, Chris SOUTHBY, Megan LECH, Steven JOHNSTON, Nadege ROLLET, Chris LEWIS
- Date Published: August 2013
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As part of the National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP), Geoscience Australia is undertaking evaluation of the Vlaming Sub-basin, offshore Western Australia, for the long-term storage of CO2. The Early Cretaceous Gage Sandstone is a quality reservoir ...
Influence of Early Cretaceous paleotopography on deposition and the sealing potential of the South Perth Shale, Vlaming Sub-basin
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Stephen JOHNSTON, Chris SOUTHBY, Irina BORISSOVA, Megan LECH, Chris LEWIS, Diane JORGENSEN, Liuqi WANG
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Geoscience Australia is currently conducting a study under the National CO2 Infrastructure Plan (NCIP) to assess suitability of the Vlaming Sub-basin for CO2 storage. It involves characterisation of the potential seal, the Early Cretaceous South Pert...
Magnetostratigraphy as a correlation tool for carbonate environments – Examples from the Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Eric TOHVER, Sergei PISAREVSKY, Maodu YAN, Jeroen HANSMA, Ted E. PLAYTON, Joseph KIRSCHVINK, Kate TRINAJSTIC, Peter HAINES, Roger HOCKING, Paul MONTGOMERY
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The margins of the Canning Basin of Western Australia were the loci for extensive carbonate accumulation throughout Middle to Late Devonian times. The irregular coastline of the Lennard Shelf produced a variety of depostional settings, including isol...
Have We Deciphered the Canning? Discovery of the Ungani Oil Field
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.B. Edwards, E. Streitberg
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
The 2011 discovery of the Ungani oil field by Buru Energy has driven a far-reaching change in perceptions of the prospectivity of the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Previously the basin had been portrayed as ‘difficult’, with a number of pot...
The Gorgon Field: An Overview
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: A. Maftei, E.J. King, M.C. Flores
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Gorgon Field, a giant gas accumulation discovered in 1980, remained undeveloped for over three decades due to challenging subsurface and commercial factors. Situated in the Northern Carnarvon basin in 200–300 m of water, the Gorgon Field lies 1...
Detrital Zircon U–Pb Ages from the Paleozoic of the Canning and Officer Basins, Western Australia: Implications for Provenance and Interbasin Connections
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: P.W. Haines, M.T.D. Wingate, C.L. Kirkland
- Date Published: August 2013
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The U–Pb age spectra of detrital zircons separated from sandstone were determined for twelve Canning Basin samples, two western Officer Basin samples, and one basement sample from the centre of the Canning Basin. The basement sample has an early Ne...
Development of a Regional Stratigraphic Framework For Upper Devonian Reef Complexes Using Integrated Chronostratigraphy: Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: T.E. Playton, R. Hocking, P. Montgomery, E. Tohver, K. Hillbun, D. Katz, P. Haines, K. Trinajstic, M. Yan, J. Hansma, S. Pisarevsky, J. Kirschvink, P. Cawood, K. Grice, S. Tulipani, K. Ratcliffe, D. Wray, S. Caulfield-Kerney, P. Ward, P. Playford
- Date Published: August 2013
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Questions regarding heterogeneity and architecture of reefal carbonate platform systems may be resolved by wellconstrained chronostratigraphic frameworks, developed from the integration of multiple independent signals in the rock record. This makes p...
Seismic Stratigraphy of a Plio-quaternary Intra-shelf Basin (Bonaparte Shelf, NW Australia)
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: J. Bourget, R. Nanson, R.B. Ainsworth, S. Courgeon, S.J. Jorry, H. Al-anzi
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Bonaparte Basin is marked by the development of a wide (ca. 630 km) continental shelf where carbonate and siliciclastic sediments accumulated during the Late Pliocene and Quaternary (ca. 3.5 Ma BP onwards). This unusually large platform is associ...
Analysis of Seabed Features and Shallow Stratigraphy for Indications of Fault Reactivation and Seepage: Results from the 2012 Marine Surveys in the Southern Perth and Bonaparte Basins
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: D. Jorgensen, I. Borissova, G. Bernardel, A. Carroll, C. Consoli, H. Dulfer, K. Higgins, T. Nicholas, K. Picard
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
In 2012, Geoscience Australia carried out marine surveys in the Vlaming Sub-basin (Perth Basin; GA0334) and Petrel Sub-basin (Bonaparte Basin; SOL5463). The purpose of these surveys was to gather pre-competitive geophysical and biophysical data on th...
Depositional and Volcanic History of the Early to Middle Jurassic Deltaic Reservoirs in Calliance and Brecknock Fields (Plover Formation), Browse Basin, North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: F. Tovaglieri, A.D. George, T. Jones, H. Zwingmann
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Early to Middle Jurassic Plover Formation in the Browse Basin hosts reservoirs currently targeted for gas exploration and development. Integration of core-based sedimentology, igneous petrology, borehole image and wireline log analysis, with bios...
Late Authigenic Pyrite – an Indicator of Oil Migration and Entrapment in the Bonaparte Basin, Timor Sea, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: G. K. Ellis
- Date Published: August 2013
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Late authigenic pyrite cementation is common to abundant in the Middle Jurassic Laminaria and Plover Formation sandstone in numerous wells on the Laminaria High and in the Vulcan Sub-basin of the northern Bonaparte Basin. Pyrite cementation developed...
A New Sequence Stratigraphic Framework for the North West Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: N.G. Marshall, S.C. Lang
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Mesozoic and Cenozoic of the North West Shelf can be subdivided into 18 broad stratigraphic intervals that show a remarkable degree of geological similarity from basin to basin. These intervals are termed “regional play intervals” and are rel...
Structural Architecture of Australia’s Southwest Continental Margin and Implications for Early Cretaceous Basin Evolution
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: L.S. Hall, A.D. Gibbons, G. Bernardel, J.M. Whittaker, C. Nicholson, N. Rollet, R.D. Müller
- Date Published: August 2013
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The southwest margin of Australia is a complex and relatively poorly studied offshore continental region that includes the Perth and Mentelle basins. Plate reconstruction models, in conjunction with regional seismic and potential field data, demonstr...
Integration of Seismic Stratigraphy and Seismic Geomorphology for Prediction of Lithology, Applications and Workflows
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: H.W. Posamentier
- Date Published: August 2013
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As high-quality 3D seismic data has become widely available, stratigraphic interpretation has significantly improved our ability to predict the subsurface distribution of lithologies. Stratigraphic interpretation of seismic data involves the integrat...
Evaluating the Role of Stress Factors in Tracefossil Distribution along Mixed-influence Deltaic Systems of an Embayed Shoreline (Middle Jurassic, Sunrise Field of the Timor Sea, Australia and Timor-Leste)
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: L. Buatois, F. Burns, R.B. Ainsworth
- Date Published: August 2013
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Emphasis has been traditionally placed in characterising ichnological signatures of the classical end members of the genetic ternary plot, namely river-, wave- and tide-dominated deltas. However, recent years have witnessed progress in the understand...
Present-day Seismicity and Potential Strike-slip Reactivation in Northwest WA
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: M. Keep
- Date Published: August 2013
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A number of sub-parallel, rhomboidal basinal features identified along the northwestern coastline of Western Australia occur in areas where present-day seismicity indicates strike-slip failure mechanisms dominate. This paper examines the rhomboidal f...
New insights into the evolution of the Barrow Delta from a multi-disciplinary interpretation of the Birdrong Sequence
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Jessica TRAINOR, Jeff GOODALL, Kathryn AMOS
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Early Cretaceous Birdrong Sequence (S. tabulata - P. burgeri) represents the final episode of coarse clastic sedimentation across the Barrow Sub-Basin prior to transgression and the deposition of the Mardie Greensand - the 'last gasp' of the Barr...
Precompetitive geophysical data by Geoscience Australia: Uncovering onshore basins in Western Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Pauline ENGLISH, Lidena CARR, Marina COSTELLOE, Ian ROACH, Josef HOLZSCHUH
- Date Published: August 2013
Abstract:
Geoscience Australia’s Onshore Energy Security Program (OESP, 2006-2011) provided precompetitive geoscientific data and detailed assessments of the potential for onshore energy resources, including oil, gas, geothermal, uranium and thorium. With st...
Igneous Intrusions in the Carnarvon Basin, NW Shelf, Australia
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: K. McClay, N. Scarselli, S. Jitmahantakul
- Date Published: August 2013
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Many rifts and passive margin basins are characterised by dykes and sills that intrude the both pre-rift and syn rift strata. In the southern part of the northern Carnarvon Basin sills and dykes are well imaged in a number of 3D seismic surveys. This...
A regional assessment of the CO2 storage potential of the Bonaparte Basin, offshore Northern Territory
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: Andrew D. HEAP, Alfredo CHIRINOS, Christopher CONSOLI, Karen HIGGINS, , Diane JORGENSEN, Kamal KHIDER, David LESCINSKY, Robbie MORRIS, Victor NGUYEN
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Australian Government will complete a regional study of the greenhouse gas storage prospectivity for the southern Bonaparte Basin, offshore Northern Territory. The study identified a large storage capacity within a safe and secure stratigraphic s...
Sedimentary and Structural Features of the Plio-Pleistocene Timor Accretionary Wedge, Timor-Leste
- Publication Name: Western Australian Basins Symposium
- Authors: S. Poynter, A. Goldberg, D. Hearty
- Date Published: August 2013
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The Timor accretionary wedge developed in response to the Neogene collision of the Australian Plate with the Banda Arc. New 2D and 3D seismic data acquired offshore Timor-Leste have been used to investigate the sedimentary and structural features of ...