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High frequency refraction/ reflection full-waveform inversion case study from North West Shelf offshore Australia

High frequency refraction/ reflection full-waveform inversion case study from North West Shelf offshore Australia

Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
Authors: David Dickinson, Fabio Mancini, Xiang Li, Kai Zhao
Date Published: February 2018

 

Abstract:

The robustness of diving wave Full-Waveform Inversion (FWI) has been proven in industry, but the effectiveness is limited by its penetration depth. To target deeper reservoirs, therefore, requires the application of reflection FWI. This paper present...

 

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Modelling reservoir deliverability within the Northern Beagle Subbasin, Western Australia

Modelling reservoir deliverability within the Northern Beagle Subbasin, Western Australia

Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
Authors: Christopher Hurren, Gerard O’Halloran, Kylie Kirk, Christopher A. Paschke
Date Published: February 2018

 

Abstract:

Reservoir deliverability is a critical component affecting the viability of petroleum systems within a sedimentary basin. Deliverability can be described as the ability of a given rock to flow hydrocarbons to the surface. Calculating deliverability r...

 

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Impact of sequence stratigraphy on static and dynamic reservoir models: examples from the Precipice–Evergreen succession, Surat Basin, Queensland

Impact of sequence stratigraphy on static and dynamic reservoir models: examples from the Precipice–Evergreen succession, Surat Basin, Queensland

Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
Authors: Andrew D. La Croix, Vahab Honari, Sebastian Gonzalez, Jim Underschultz, Andrew Garnett
Date Published: February 2018

 

Abstract:

CO2 storage in the subsurface is a key aspect of climate mitigation. The UQ is investigating whether the Precipice Sandstone and Evergreen Formation in the Surat Basin, Queensland, are an appropriate reservoir-seal pair for the long-term storage of g...

 

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Cooper Basin Deep Coal – the New Unconventional Paradigm: Deepest Producing Coals in Australia

Cooper Basin Deep Coal – the New Unconventional Paradigm: Deepest Producing Coals in Australia

Publication Name: Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference 2018
Authors: Camac, B.A., Benson, J, Chan, V, Goedecke, A
Date Published: February 2018

 

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Up to four years of gas production from Permian coals in the South Australian (SA) sector of the Cooper Basin illustrates their potential value as a sustainable unconventional gas resource. The success of this play is a result of many years of resear...

 

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Next Generation Reservoir Engineering

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...

 

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Organic geochemistry and petroleum potential of Permian outcrop and core samples from the southern Sydney Basin

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 ...

 

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The Permian and Carboniferous extensional history of the Northern Carnarvon Basin and its influence on Mesozoic extension

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

 

Abstract:

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...

 

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Seismic diffraction imaging for improved coal structure detection in complex geological environments

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

 

Abstract:

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...

 

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Petroleum Plays of the Bowen and Surat basins

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

 

Abstract:

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...

 

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Evolution of “Tres Hombres” – A Mid-crustal Dome Structure within the Jurassic Northern Beagle Sub-basin Western Australia: An Integrated Geophysical Investigation

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

 

Abstract:

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...

 

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Predicting Structural Permeability in the Deep Coal Play, Tirrawarra-Gooranie fields, Cooper Basin

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

 

Abstract:

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...

 

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TARGETING CORE SAMPLING WITH MACHINE LEARNING: CASE STUDY FROM THE SPRINGBOK SANDSTONE, SURAT BASIN

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 ...

 

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Interpretation of a Permian conjugate basin margin preserved on the outer Northwest Shelf of Australia

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...

 

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Georgina Basin – Middle Cambrian petroleum systems and the search for unconventional hydrocarbons

Georgina Basin – Middle Cambrian petroleum systems and the search for unconventional hydrocarbons

Publication Name: Central Australian Basins Symposium III
Authors: G.J. Ambrose, D.S. Warner, J.P. Heugh
Date Published: July 2017

 

Abstract:

The Georgina Basin has two well documented Middle Cambrian source rocks (Lower Arthur Creek Formation and Thorntonia Limestone) which are believed to have expelled up to 40 billion tonnes (320 Bbbls) of liquid hydrocarbons based on detailed evaluati...

 

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Extensional and Contractional Tectonics in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Extensional and Contractional Tectonics in Southeastern Papua New Guinea

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Michael Swift and Hugh Davies
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

In the southeastern part of the Papuan peninsula structures which have been formed by compressional tectonics are located on the south side of the island whilst structures formed by extensional tectonics are found in the centre and north of the penin...

 

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Mapping Sub-Surface Geology from Magnetic Data in the Hides Area, Western Papuan Fold Belt, Papua New Guinea

Mapping Sub-Surface Geology from Magnetic Data in the Hides Area, Western Papuan Fold Belt, Papua New Guinea

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Irena Kivior, Stephen Markham, Leslie Mellon
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Horizon mapping using magnetic data was conducted over a part of the Western Papuan Fold Belt, in an area of rugged terrain, where the geological structures are of relatively low complexity. Energy spectral analysis was used to detect magnetic suscep...

 

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Testing the Tertiary Basin Floor Fan Play in the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea

Testing the Tertiary Basin Floor Fan Play in the Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: B. Bailey, G. Salem, P. Haltmeier
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

The Gulf of Papua (GoP) is situated offshore the southern coast of Papua New Guinea. Present-day morphology of the continental shelf consists of a broad platform that extends 180 km outboard of the coast in shallow water of approximately 100m. The do...

 

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Water Washing: A Major Hydrocarbon Altercation Process. Part 2 – Process, Controls and Hydrocarbon Type Prediction

Water Washing: A Major Hydrocarbon Altercation Process. Part 2 – Process, Controls and Hydrocarbon Type Prediction

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: L. Elliott
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Water washing is a significant hydrocarbon alteration process that has not been widely recognized in the literature. An earlier review investigated the geochemistry and water washing relationship associated with Australian North West Shelf oils and g...

 

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Detailed Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis of the Early Cretaceous Outcrops in West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Detailed Stratigraphic and Structural Analysis of the Early Cretaceous Outcrops in West Gippsland, Victoria, Australia.

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: H. Aghaei, C. Valenta, M. Hall, Alan Tait
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

The study tried to answer questions regarding the stratigraphy, structure and depositional environment of the Strzelecki Group based on its unique coastal outcrops near the Wonthaggi township, west Gippsland. The outcrops were mapped and logged in de...

 

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Analogue Modeling of the Papua New Guinea Fold and Thrust Belt

Analogue Modeling of the Papua New Guinea Fold and Thrust Belt

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: R. Darnault, K. Hill, J.M. Mengus, N. Wilson
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Seismic data quality is often very poor in structurally complex areas due to complex faulting and severe dip changes. In such settings, it is thus difficult to interpret and understand the influence of basement structures on basin geometries through ...

 

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Using Biodegradation to Date Hydrocarbon Entry Into Reservoirs: Examples from the Cooper / Eromanga Basin, Australia

Using Biodegradation to Date Hydrocarbon Entry Into Reservoirs: Examples from the Cooper / Eromanga Basin, Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: L. Elliott
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

This study identifies common biodegradation of Cooper/ Eromanga Basin (CEB) oils and condensates from changes to the n-alkane and isoprenoid whole oil gas chromatograph (WOGC) hydrocarbon profiles, which because of their generally mild degradation ha...

 

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Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Permian Succession in the Southwest Bowen Basin, Queensland

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Permian Succession in the Southwest Bowen Basin, Queensland

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Christopher R. Fielding, Michael A. Martin, Kerrie L. Bann
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

This paper investigates the distribution of depositional systems, in time and space, of the Permian succession of the Denison Trough and surrounding areas, southwest Bowen Basin, Queensland. A unified facies scheme is presented for the shallow marine...

 

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Where’s the Data? Acquisition and Processing of Seismic Data in the PNG Highlands

Where’s the Data? Acquisition and Processing of Seismic Data in the PNG Highlands

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Subhash Chandra, Geoff Mansfield, Peter Carver
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Seismic exploration in the PNG Highlands poses many challenges both in the acquisition and in the processing of the data. The seismic method is limited by both operational and geophysical technical constraints....

 

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A Time-Slice of the Lake Eyre Basin: Sand / Mud Depositional Geometries In A Diverse Lowstand Endorheic Drylands Setting

A Time-Slice of the Lake Eyre Basin: Sand / Mud Depositional Geometries In A Diverse Lowstand Endorheic Drylands Setting

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: G.A. Wakelin-King, K.J. Amos
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Dryland environments of deposition form an important part of the rock record, and understanding the processes governing sediment distribution is important for predicting their reservoir, seal, and migration pathway properties. A cross-discipline coll...

 

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Petrophysical Challenges and Triumpsh in the Gippsland Basin

Petrophysical Challenges and Triumpsh in the Gippsland Basin

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: A. Mills and K. Kuttan
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Early explorers in the Gippsland Basin must have been ecstatic to find the large accumulations of oil and gas in the Top Latrobe reservoirs. These were easily identifiable on logs. What they did not initially appreciate, was that many of the large ga...

 

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Structural Style in the Eastern Papuan Fold Belt, from Wells, Seismic, Maps and Modelling

Structural Style in the Eastern Papuan Fold Belt, from Wells, Seismic, Maps and Modelling

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Kevin Hill, Ruth Wightman, Louise Munro
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Exploration in fold and thrust belts is fundamentally different from that in most other geological provinces as the mountainous terrain makes acquisition of seismic data very expensive and the data are usually poor to moderate quality. In contrast fo...

 

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Depositional Environments and Sediment Dispersal Patterns of the Jurassic Walloon Subgroup in Eastern Australia

Depositional Environments and Sediment Dispersal Patterns of the Jurassic Walloon Subgroup in Eastern Australia

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Joel V.R. Yago and Christopher R. Fielding
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

This paper summarises results from a regional evaluation of depositional environments of the Middle Jurassic Walloon Subgroup in eastern Australia. The Walloon Subgroup (WSG), which extends from the Clarence-Moreton and other basins of coastal SE Que...

 

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A Powerhouse Emerges: Energy for the Next Fifty Years

A Powerhouse Emerges: Energy for the Next Fifty Years

Publication Name: Eastern Australian Basins Symposium V (EABS 2015)
Authors: Lodwick W. (Ed)
Date Published: September 2015

 

Abstract:

Complete publication of all papers from EABS V (2015) - Eastern Australian Basins Symposium...

 

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The Gobe Field, PNG; Influence of Basement Architecture on Fold and Thrust Belt Structural Style

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...

 

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Regional Assessment of the Toolebuc Formation: A Shale Oil Play in Southwest Queensland

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...

 

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